Outdoor and Environmental Studies

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies 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 Written examination, Section A Q1. Task focus — Describes a specific Indigenous peoples' relationship with a visited or studied environment in the period before European colonisation. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section A Q4a. Task focus — Explains the process by which a group becomes a Registered Aboriginal Party. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section A Q6. Task focus — Uses a CSIRO ocean-heat-content graph to describe one national strategy addressing rising ocean heat. 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.