Official curriculum and assessment
To start VCE General Mathematics revision, open the 2025 Examination 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.
- 2025 Examination 1 examination paper (PDF)
- 2025 Examination 1 marking guidance (Word document)
- 2025 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
- 2025 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
- 2024 Examination 1 examination paper (PDF)
- 2024 Examination 1 marking guidance (Word document)
- 2024 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
- 2024 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
- 2023 Examination 1 examination paper (PDF)
- 2023 Examination 1 marking guidance (Word document)
- 2023 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
- 2023 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
How to practise this subject
These practice suggestions are editorial guidance from Australian Study Resources.
- Open the 2025 Examination 1, Q1. Task focus — Reading the median value directly off a histogram of bag sizes bought by customers. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
- Open the 2025 Examination 1, Q17. Task focus — Selecting the correct closed-form expression for simple interest growth over three years. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
- Open the 2025 Examination 1, Q25. Task focus — Classifying a given square matrix by its structural type (permutation matrix). 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 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.
Explore AI marking on ATARMAXXING
Use automated feedback as a prompt to inspect your reasoning; check disputed steps against your teacher or the official marking guidance.
Revision reading
- 2026 VCE General Mathematics Exam: What to Learn From Last Year's Mistakes
VCAA's 2025 General Mathematics examiner reports: the Exam 1 and Exam 2 questions most students got wrong, with the working that fixes each one.
- VCE General Maths Practice Exams: Check Your Method
Use VCE General Maths practice exams to separate interpretation, method and execution errors, check calculator setups and build a usable bound reference.