Free VCE Resources: Past Exams, Study Designs and Reports

The first four sit together on one VCAA page for each subject, so for most of what you'll want, that page is the place to start.

VCAA's past examinations and reports page lists each subject with an exam. Choosing yours opens a page set out in three parts:

• Examination specifications and sample materials: how your exam is set out, plus sample questions written when the course last changed
• Examinations relating to the current study design: recent papers, each with its report
• Examinations relating to previous study designs: older papers and reports, grouped by year

Exams are PDFs, while recent reports and assessment guides are Word documents, and some of those are large files.

Your teachers build your course from your subject's study design. Each study design applies for a set number of years before VCAA replaces or revises it, and VCAA's 2026 study design list (PDF) shows when each subject's current one started.

That's why each subject page splits its papers in two. VCAA says papers from before the current design are “not necessarily a guide to the current VCE examination”, because the course they were written for has since changed.

Older papers can still have questions on topics your course covers. Your teacher teaches from the current design, so they can usually tell you which questions still fit, which is often quicker than working it out from the study design yourself.

Once you've tried a paper, you can compare your answers with what the examiners were looking for in its external assessment report. Some subjects, including English and Methods, also have videos about the 2024 exams from the chief assessor, the person in charge of marking.

For English, the assessment criteria and expected qualities explain how your exam is marked.

For a way to work through a paper and its report, step by step, see our guide to using VCE past exams to revise.

When you're ready to fit practice papers into your weeks, our weekly study planner lays them out around school, sport and work, and you can print or save it.

Past GAT papers

The General Achievement Test (GAT) is a pen-and-paper test of general knowledge and skills in writing, numeracy and reasoning. You sit it if you're doing Units 3 and 4 of a VCE subject. VCAA says no special study is needed, so the past GAT papers are mainly a way to see what the test looks like before you sit it.

Our guide to the GAT explains what it's for and how it's used.

State Library Victoria

For subjects with research tasks, the State Library's VCE research guides are a place to start. Its free video series for VCE students shows how to search them, in episodes of about ten minutes on topics such as English and literature, Australian history and databases for psychology and the sciences.

Your subject teacher is the first person to ask about any of this, from what a line in a report means for your own answers to whether they'd look over a practice answer. Your school librarian can tell you what else the library has for VCE students, and your VCE coordinator can help if you're unsure which study design applies to you.

If a subject keeps stopping you at the same kind of question even after reading the report, it can help to work through it one-to-one. Our tutors at TMJ Tutoring do that at home or online, working from your own course outline, class notes and assessment dates rather than a fixed program.

Your own subject's page, and the most recent paper on it, is a good place to begin, whenever you're ready.

When will the 2026 exams be online?

VCAA adds papers and reports as they become available. You can check your subject's page again in early 2027.

How do I open the files on my phone?

VCAA suggests choosing “download” rather than “view” when your phone asks.

What are the papers marked NHT?

They're extra papers from the Northern Hemisphere Timetable, a separate sitting of VCE exams. VCAA says it no longer offers that sitting, but its past papers and reports may still be useful. Where an NHT paper sits under the current study design, it gives you one more paper written for your course.

We checked these official sources on 6 November 2026.