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Queensland · QCE · Year 12

English as an Additional Language

QCE Units 3 & 4

Official curriculum and assessment

To start QCE English as an Additional Language revision, open the 2025 External examination paper. Use the official resources below to choose a task, attempt it independently and check your response against the available assessment guidance. The practice sequence below explains how to turn that review into a focused next attempt. Confirm the paper’s course and syllabus year before using it.

Editorial guidance prepared .

How to practise this subject

These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.

  1. Open the 2025 Section 1 — Extended response, All the Light We Cannot See a). Task focus — Asked what the novel suggests about human behaviour under the pressures of war. Students answer one question on one text. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  2. Open the 2025 Section 1 — Extended response, Burial Rites a). Task focus — Gave a statement that telling Agnes's story questions how history is recorded, for discussion. Students answer one question on one text. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  3. Open the 2025 Section 1 — Extended response, Macbeth a). Task focus — Asked what the play says about the results of immoral choices. Students answer one question on one text. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  4. Record the specific point you missed, write a corrected response, and attempt another question that requires the same skill. Check older material against your current course before reusing it.

Plan your next practice session

Choose one response from your practice sequence. Identify its main claim, underline the evidence and explain how that evidence answers the question. Revise any claim that is broader than its support.

How to build an evidence-based paragraph — includes an original example and a downloadable worksheet.

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