Visual Communication Design

Official curriculum and assessment

To start VCE Visual Communication Design revision, open the 2025 Written examination (Question and Answer Book + Resource Book). 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 (Question and Answer Book + Resource Book) (PDF)
• 2025 official report or marking guidance (Word document)
• 2024 Written examination (PDF)
• 2024 official report or 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 — Identify a Gestalt principle at work in one selected design example (choice across messages/environments/objects/interactive experiences) and discuss its use. 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 Q2. Task focus — Using a selected design example as evidence, explain legal obligations a designer may have needed to consider during its development. Attempt it before consulting the marking guidance, then identify the evidence or working that supports your answer.
3. Open the 2025 Written examination, Section B Q1a. Task focus — Discuss additional characteristics of a specified target audience relevant to the set design problem. 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.