Physical Sciences

Official curriculum and assessment

To start TCE Physical Sciences revision, open the 2025 Official 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.

• 2025 Official examination paper (PDF)
• 2025 Official assessment report (PDF)
• 2024 Official examination paper (PDF)
• 2024 Official assessment report (PDF)

Editorial guidance prepared 3 November 2026.

How to practise this subject

These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.

1. Choose a current course task with this focus: atomic structure and the periodic table: Electron configuration, shells and periodic trends in atomic radii and valency. Sketch the physical situation and label the quantities with units. State the model or relationship you intend to use.
2. Choose a current course task with this focus: describing motion: Scalars, vectors and the equations of uniformly accelerated motion. Work through the calculation with signs and directions visible. Check whether the magnitude and units are reasonable.
3. Choose a current course task with this focus: conservation of momentum: One-dimensional collisions and explosions using Σp(before) = Σp(after). Explain the mechanism in words, connecting the initial conditions, the interaction and the resulting change.
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.