VCE Questions by Topic: what actually gets examined
Past VCE papers coded question by question against the syllabus — module, topic, marks, format and key word — so you can see where the marks actually sit before deciding what to revise.
7 subjects · 1715 questions · 3145 marks · 30 official papers
Subjects covered
Every figure is counted from the real papers. Nothing is estimated.
VCE Mathematical Methods
558 questions · 840 marks · 7 VCAA papers, 2023–2026
13 of its 16 contents were examined in every paper on file, and Applications of differentiation: graph sketching, stationary points, optimisation alone carried 135 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Chemistry
328 questions · 480 marks · 4 VCAA papers, 2024–2026
5 of its 5 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and What are the current and future options for supplying energy? alone carried 129 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Biology
295 questions · 480 marks · 4 VCAA papers, 2022–2025
5 of its 5 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and What is the role of nucleic acids and proteins in maintaining life? alone carried 111 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Physics
278 questions · 480 marks · 4 VCAA papers, 2024–2026
5 of its 5 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and How has understanding about the physical world changed? alone carried 124 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Economics
135 questions · 320 marks · 4 VCAA papers, 2022–2025
5 of its 5 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and Aggregate demand policies and domestic economic stability alone carried 87 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Legal Studies
69 questions · 320 marks · 4 VCAA papers, 2022–2025
4 of its 4 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and The people and the law-makers alone carried 92 marks.
See what’s actually tested →VCE Business Management
52 questions · 225 marks · 3 VCAA papers, 2023–2025
5 of its 5 areas of study were examined in every paper on file, and Operations management alone carried 50 marks.
See what’s actually tested →How the coding works
Each question is placed in the syllabus area it assesses, with its mark value, its format and its key word recorded. Marks are then reconciled against the paper’s own stated total, so nothing is double-counted and nothing is missed — where a section offers a choice of questions, the alternatives share that section’s marks rather than each claiming them.
What we do not have: the authorities publish no per-question statistics for these papers, so nothing here says how students actually performed. It describes what was asked and what it was worth.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is this?
Every question in 30 official VCAA papers counted against the syllabus — what it was worth, what format it took and which key word it used, and which module and topic it assesses. The placement is coded by hand, never estimated. The pages show where the marks actually sat, so you can decide what to revise on evidence rather than on a feeling.
Are the exam questions reproduced here?
No. The authorities own the papers. These pages publish counts and link to the authority's own copy of each paper, so you read the real thing at the source. The analysis is ours; the papers stay with them.
Why are only some subjects here?
Because each subject has to be coded question by question against its syllabus, and that is manual work. A subject appears once its papers are coded and the marks reconcile against each paper's own stated total — not before.
Does this predict what will be in my exam?
No, and it is not meant to. It describes what has been set. Examiners write each paper fresh and can weight a neglected topic heavily, which is why every topic is listed on the subject pages, including the ones examined least.
Exam papers © Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, linked at source on each subject page. The coding and the counts are ours.