Geography

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE Geography 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)
• 2023 Written examination paper (PDF)
• 2023 Written examination marking guidance (Word document)
• 2022 Written examination (Question and answer book + Data book) (PDF)
• 2022 official assessment report (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 2022 Written examination, Q1. Task focus — Describe two natural characteristics of a named glacier visible on a supplied topographic map. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Open the 2022 Written examination, Q5. Task focus — Personalised fieldwork question: state the student's own fieldwork location, link the observed land use change to their research question, outline its time sequence, and evaluate how one type of data collection (primary or secondary) helped answer that question. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. Open the 2022 Written examination, Q6. Task focus — Compare the global population share of the youngest and oldest age brackets between 1950 and a 2050 projection, then describe how the overall global population structure differs between 1950 and a 2100 projection, using a supplied population pyramid and age-breakdown chart. 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.