English as an Additional Language

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE English as an Additional Language revision, open the 2025 Written 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 Written examination paper (PDF)
• 2025 Written examination marking guidance (Word document)
• 2024 Written examination paper (PDF)
• 2024 Written examination marking guidance (Word document)

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 Task Book, Section A Text 1 — Bad Dreams and Other Stories (Tessa Hadley). Task focus — Two topics: a direct question on the consequences of disregarding social customs, or a proposition, offered for discussion, that relationships with others help individuals understand themselves. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Open the 2025 Task Book, Section A Text 3 — Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel García Márquez). Task focus — Two topics: a quotation about conflicting witness accounts leading into how the idea of truth is explored, or whether women display the most courage despite their lack of power. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. Open the 2025 Task Book, Section B Framework 1 — Writing about country. Task focus — Create one written text exploring ideas about country, using the set title 'Origins' and a relevant idea from at least one of three unseen stimuli — a line about the heart never leaving, an image, and an extract describing people, animals, plants, land, sea and sky as one Country. 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.