Specialist Mathematics

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE Specialist 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 1 examiner feedback (Word document)
• 2025 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
• 2025 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
• 2025 Examination 2 examiner feedback (Word document)
• 2024 Examination 1 examination paper (PDF)
• 2024 Examination 1 marking guidance (Word document)
• 2024 Examination 1 examiner feedback (Word document)
• 2024 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
• 2024 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
• 2024 Examination 2 examiner feedback (Word document)
• 2023 Examination 1 examination paper (PDF)
• 2023 Examination 1 marking guidance (Word document)
• 2023 Examination 1 examiner feedback (Word document)
• 2023 Examination 2 examination paper (PDF)
• 2023 Examination 2 marking guidance (Word document)
• 2023 Examination 2 examiner feedback (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 Exam 1, Q1. Task focus — Finding the tangent line to an implicitly defined exponential curve at a given point. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
2. Take two lines written in vector form. Equate their coordinates and solve for the parameters. Substitute back into every coordinate equation to check whether the lines intersect. If they do, state the common point.
3. Open the 2025 Exam 1, Q4. Task focus — Using integration to establish the expected value of a continuous random variable (waiting time), then finding a probability for a sample mean using the normal approximation. 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.