Year 12 · WACE / Geography
Assessment and exam practice.
Plan a practice session around the assessment you are preparing for.
Try this with Geography
- 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 — 1:25 000 map skills; deforestation and degradation; urbanisation and rural population
- Exam 2 — contours and cross-section; remote sensing of land cover change; Aboriginal fire management
- Exam 3 — bearings and latitude/longitude; agricultural intensification; two-country factors
- Exam 4 — sketch map construction; urban heat islands; natural systems: carbon cycle
- Exam 5 — photo direction and scale; mining as land cover change; ecosystem services loss
- Exam 6 — boxplots of rainfall; climate evidence through geological time; growing affluence
- Exam 7 — area and gradient calculations; soil erosion and degradation; biodiversity option: food webs
- Exam 8 — site and situation; world rainfall and temperature distribution; technology and land cover
- Exam 9 — spatial relationships on maps; loss of habitat; mitigation strategies
- Exam 10 — time-speed-distance; degradation of aquatic environments; anthropogenic biomes
- Exam 11 — contour interval and slope shape; remote sensing measurement; carbon sequestration
- Exam 12 — grid references and features; expansion of agriculture; ideology and government policy
- Exam 13 — cross-section annotation; biodiversity option: evidence in recent history; population growth and land cover
- Exam 14 — hydrological features; changes to the water cycle; atmospheric circulation
- Exam 15 — photo versus map scale; urban growth as land cover change; two natural causes of climate change
- Exam 16 — statistical maps (choropleth, proportional circle); culture and land ownership; species extinction
- Exam 17 — latitude and longitude; loss of ecosystem services; present and projected impacts
- Exam 18 — annotated sketch map; adaptation strategies; heat budget and greenhouse effect
- Exam 19 — gradient and travel time; biomes and anthropogenic biomes; affluence and consumption
- Exam 20 — mixed map and photo skills; full Unit 3 overview; climate or biodiversity interrelationships
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