Assessment and exam practice.

Try this with Engineering Studies

1. Check the task format, time limit and permitted materials with your school.
2. Start with one timed section or task and record where you spent the most time.
3. Review errors before attempting another section. Separate missing knowledge from timing problems.

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Practice paper focus areas

• Exam 1 — Civil: pedestrian bridge truss (method of joints and sections); Transport: boat winch on a slipway (friction, MA, VR, efficiency); Aeronautical: turbofan versus turboprop and stall
• Exam 2 — Civil: playground frame reactions, SF and BM diagrams; Transport: heat treatment of steel axle components; Aeronautical: L/D ratio and payload calculation
• Exam 3 — Civil: stress/strain test data for a steel tie rod and factor of safety; Transport: electric bus traction motors and speed control; Aeronautical: Bernoulli, venturi and pitot-static instruments
• Exam 4 — Civil: pre-tensioned versus post-tensioned bridge girders; Transport: escalator power and energy; Aeronautical: aluminium–copper alloys and age hardening
• Exam 5 — Civil: bolted steel connection in shear with factor of safety; Transport: ladder and inclined-plane static friction; Aeronautical: non-destructive testing of a wing spar
• Exam 6 — Civil: crack theory and repair in concrete and steel; Transport: polymer components and moulding processes in cars; Aeronautical: hydraulic brakes and Pascal’s principle
• Exam 7 — Civil: dam and retaining wall materials, geotextiles; Transport: welding and the heat-affected zone of a trailer chassis; Aeronautical: airframe bending stress in a wing spar
• Exam 8 — Civil: cable-stayed bridge history and social impact; Transport: work and energy of a roller-coaster style people mover; Aeronautical: composites and FML in airliners
• Exam 9 — Civil: crane jib truss by method of sections; Transport: hardness and impact testing of helmet and axle materials; Aeronautical: scramjet and rocket propulsion
• Exam 10 — Civil: corrosion of a coastal jetty and protection methods; Transport: gear trains and winches (MA, VR, efficiency); Aeronautical: altimeter and airspeed indicator operation
• Exam 11 — Civil: simply supported beam with three point loads and bending stress; Transport: brushless DC motors in e-bikes; Aeronautical: ethics and accountability after an aviation incident
• Exam 12 — Civil: glass, bricks and cement in buildings; Transport: forging versus casting of crankshafts; Aeronautical: thermosetting polymers and vacuum lay-up
• Exam 13 — Civil: truss with an inclined load solved graphically and mathematically; Transport: series–parallel lighting circuit in a caravan; Aeronautical: history of flight in Australia and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
• Exam 14 — Civil: recycling materials from a demolished building; Transport: aluminium alloys in vehicle bodies; Aeronautical: forces in level flight and climbing flight
• Exam 15 — Civil: X-ray and concrete slump/compression testing; Transport: angle of repose for loading ramps; Aeronautical: Kevlar and carbon fibre in helicopter blades
• Exam 16 — Civil: timber versus steel in playground and pedestrian structures; Transport: normalising and annealing of cold-worked parts; Aeronautical: pit, crevice and stress corrosion in airframes
• Exam 17 — Civil: method of joints on a cantilever truss; Transport: kinetic energy and braking work of a light rail vehicle; Aeronautical: turboprop and piston engines in regional aviation
• Exam 18 — Civil: asphalt and laminated pavements; Transport: injection-moulded and blow-moulded vehicle parts; Aeronautical: hydrostatic pressure in fuel systems
• Exam 19 — Civil: stress/strain diagram for ductile and brittle materials; Transport: powder forming of sintered gears; Aeronautical: engineers as managers in aircraft projects
• Exam 20 — Civil: bridge bearing and pier innovations; Transport: electric motors, control technology and electrical safety in trains; Aeronautical: lift equation reasoning and stall recovery