Official curriculum and assessment
To start TCE Modern History revision, open the 2025 TASC exam 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.
- 2025 TASC exam paper (PDF)
- 2025 official report or marking guidance (PDF)
- 2024 TASC exam paper (PDF)
- 2024 official report or marking guidance (PDF)
How to practise this subject
These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.
- Open the 2025 TASC exam paper, Section A Question 1. Task focus — A 1932 Roosevelt statement calling on business and finance leaders to cooperate for the common good is the stimulus; candidates outline and assess the main drivers and impacts of social, economic and political change in the USA in either 1917–1932 or 1933–1945. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
- Open the 2025 TASC exam paper, Section B Question 5. Task focus — Describe Japan's internal divisions and external challenges in 1931–1941 or 1941–1952, then judge whether its challenges came from domestic issues or from external factors beyond its control. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
- Open the 2025 TASC exam paper, Section C Question 9. Task focus — A John Lewis Gaddis claim that the capitalist side learned from history better because it never committed to one fixed theory of history; candidates test it against the origins and course of the Cold War using at least three specific incidents and differing interpretations. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
- 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.
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