Year 12 · QCE / Modern History
Assessment and exam practice.
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- Check the task format, time limit and permitted materials with your school.
- Start with one timed section or task and record where you spent the most time.
- Review errors before attempting another section. Separate missing knowledge from timing problems.
Practice paper focus areas
- Exam 1 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 & 4 — External Assessment practice paper; Australia's 1965 decision to commit troops to Vietnam; Menzies parliamentary announcement April 1965
- Exam 2 — Battle of Long Tan August 1966; Australian national identity and Vietnam War; Tactical and symbolic significance of Long Tan
- Exam 3 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 & 4 — Section A short-response to historical sources; Vietnam War civic action programs (CAPs/CORDS/pacification) vs. combat operations; Historian debate on 'hearts and minds' effectiveness
- Exam 4 — Australian anti-war moratorium movement 1970–71; Public opinion shift on Vietnam War; Role of media in the moratorium movement
- Exam 5 — First Nations soldiers and the Vietnam War — national service, conscription and Indigenous Australians; Victor Bartley and Aboriginal servicemen's experiences in Vietnam; Racial discrimination within the Australian military and conscription system
- Exam 6 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 and 4 External Assessment; Australia-US alliance: ANZUS, SEATO, and the Vietnam War era; Harold Holt and 'All the way with LBJ'
- Exam 7 — QCAA Modern History External Assessment — Unit 4: Cold War and its aftermath (Reasons for the end of the Soviet Union, 1980s–1990s); Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika: intentions, unintended consequences, and historiographical debate; Short Responses to Historical Sources — Section A only
- Exam 8 — QCAA Modern History EA — Cold War and its aftermath: Reasons for the end of the Soviet Union, 1980s–1990s; Practice EA 8 of 20 — stimulus flavour: economic stagnation and arms race burden undermining Soviet legitimacy; Section A: Short Responses to Historical Sources (59 marks)
- Exam 9 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 and 4; Cold War and its aftermath — Reasons for the end of the Soviet Union 1980s–1990s; Nationalist movements in Baltic states and Ukraine
- Exam 10 — August 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev — causes, failure, and acceleration of Soviet dissolution; Cold War and its aftermath: Reasons for the end of the Soviet Union, 1980s–1990s (QCAA Unit 4 nominated aspect); Role of Boris Yeltsin in resisting the coup and accelerating independence movements
- Exam 11 — White Australia Policy dismantling 1966-1973; Harold Holt's 1966 partial reform (Migration Act amendments); Gough Whitlam's 1973 abolition
- Exam 12 — QCAA Modern History EA Units 3 and 4 -- Mass Migrations (Migration from Asia to Australia, 1960s-1990s); Vietnamese refugee arrivals in Australia post-1975; Australian government policy responses to the Indochinese refugee crisis
- Exam 13 — QCAA Modern History EA — Practice Paper 13 of 20; Unit 4: International Experiences — Mass Migrations: Migration from Asia to Australia, 1960s–1990s; Social and cultural transformation of Australian cities through Asian migration
- Exam 14 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 & 4; Cold War and its aftermath; Australia's engagement with Asia
- Exam 15 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 and 4; Australia's strategic shift under the Whitlam government 1972; Recognition of the People's Republic of China
- Exam 16 — Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 — brinkmanship and nuclear confrontation; Back-channel diplomacy and the role of key individuals (Kennedy, Khrushchev, Dobrynin, O'Brien); EXCOMM deliberations and decision-making under pressure
- Exam 17 — The Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials; Survivor testimony as historical evidence; Documentary evidence and its role in international law
- Exam 18 — 1948 Arab-Israeli War and founding of the State of Israel; Palestinian Nakba — displacement, refugee crisis, and collective memory; Competing national narratives: Zionist, Palestinian, and Arab state perspectives
- Exam 19 — QCAA Modern History Units 3 & 4 External Assessment; Unit 4: International Experiences — Cold War and its aftermath; UN Security Council collective security mechanisms
- Exam 20 — Japan's unconditional surrender 1945; Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Strategic necessity versus moral debate
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