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South Australia · SACE · Year 12

Specialist Mathematics

SACE Stage 2

Official curriculum and assessment

To start SACE Specialist Mathematics revision, open the 2025 Question booklet 1 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.

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How to practise this subject

These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.

  1. Open the 2025 Examination paper, Q1(a)–(c). Task focus — A flask fills at a constant volumetric rate with the volume given as a cubic-type function of the liquid height; the parts ask for the height at a stated volume, a 'show that' rearrangement giving dh/dt in terms of h and dV/dt, and then the rate of change of height at that instant to three significant figures. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  2. Open the 2025 Examination paper, Q2(a). Task focus — Uses a supplied antiderivative and integration by parts to show a stated antiderivative for a squared-variable exponential integrand. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
  3. Open the 2025 Examination paper, Q3(a)–(b). Task focus — Verifies one polar solution of a fifth-degree complex equation, then uses de Moivre's theorem to establish the full set of five solutions, factors the quintic into a linear and a quartic factor, and states the quartic's solutions in exact rcis form. 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 calculation from your practice sequence. Write the quantities and units, show the relationship you used and check the result by substitution or an independent estimate.

How to check calculation working before submitting an answer — includes an original example and a downloadable worksheet.

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Use automated feedback as a prompt to inspect your reasoning; check disputed steps against your teacher or the official marking guidance.

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