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Queensland · QCE · Year 12

Philosophy & Reason

QCE Units 3 & 4

Official curriculum and assessment

To start QCE Philosophy & Reason 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 External assessment, 1. Task focus — Students judged whether a fictional state's proposed ban on e-scooters, justified by injury and hospital costs, is an appropriate use of government power. The stimulus set out current rules, the ban proposal and a libertarian post drawing on Mill's harm principle. Libertarianism had to be addressed alongside one chosen philosophy, analysing and evaluating the stimulus arguments. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  2. Write an argument as numbered premises followed by its conclusion. Check whether the conclusion follows from those premises, then assess the evidence for each premise separately. Identify any assumption needed to bridge a gap.
  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.

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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