Music

Official curriculum and assessment

To start QCE Music revision, open the 2025 Question and response book. 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.

• 2025 Question and response book (PDF)
• 2025 Stimulus book (PDF)
• 2025 Subject report (PDF)
• 2025 official report or marking guidance (PDF)
• 2024 Question and response book (PDF)
• 2024 Stimulus book (PDF)
• 2024 Subject report (PDF)
• 2024 official report or marking guidance (PDF)

Editorial guidance prepared 3 November 2026.

How to practise this subject

These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.

1. Open the 2025 External assessment, Q1. Task focus — Analyse and evaluate how the composer of the closing song of an autobiographical rock musical manipulates music elements and concepts in two specified key moments (given as bar ranges and time codes) to provoke thought about change, justifying judgments with examples from each moment. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Open the 2024 External assessment, Q1. Task focus — Choose one of three stimuli (a work for didgeridoo and orchestra by a Kalkadunga composer, a solo piano elegy performed on the Arctic Ocean, an opening number from a musical film) and two key moments; analyse and evaluate how the composer manipulates multiple music elements and concepts to reflect the title. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. 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.