VCE Media past exams 2023–2025

Every question from the last three VCE Media exams, matched to the lesson that teaches it, with class averages from the examiners' reports and worked solutions. VCE Media (Year 12) lessons.

2025 Exam

A1 (3 marks, class average 90%): How one media code creates meaning in a still from Nosferatu (1922). Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
A2 (5 marks, class average 68%): How one representation in your narrative reflects or challenges a view or value of its society. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A3 (8 marks, class average 61%): How audiences in two different contexts may read or engage with one aspect of your narrative. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A4 (4 marks, class average 78%): Fill in a pitch for a production that serves the ABC's five-year plan: title, idea, form, genre, audience. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A5 (4 marks, class average 60%): Plan a test that builds one precise technical skill for your ABC production's form. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A6 (7 marks, class average 59%): Explain your ABC production's narrative and how it achieves the plan's intention. Lesson: Production Design Plans, Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
A7 (4 marks, class average 55%): How you'd gather post-production feedback and use it to refine your ABC production. Lesson: Producing and Evaluating a Media Product
A8 (4 marks, class average 65%): One way audiences exercise agency in today's media landscape, with an example. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling
A9 (5 marks, class average 58%): Analyse a recent case where the media is claimed to have influenced an audience, using evidence. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories
A10 (6 marks, class average 48%): Explain how globalised media institutions use media. Lesson: Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling
B1 (15 marks, class average 57%): How codes and narrative conventions work together in two specific sequences of your narrative. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
B2 (15 marks, class average 53%): Analyse issues in regulating media and audiences, responding to viewer comments on the social media age law. Lesson: Media Regulation and Control in Australia, Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling

2024 Exam

A1 (3 marks, class average 63%): One way your studied narrative's construction suits its media form. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts, Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A2 (6 marks, class average 62%): Name a narrative convention, then discuss how two codes build it in one moment. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
A3 (5 marks, class average 62%): How a context in which audiences consume your narrative may shape their reading. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A4 (6 marks, class average 55%): How the media creator used conventions to engage a specific audience. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts, Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A5a (6 marks, class average 65%): Outline a narrative for the space-academy production, with two moments that fit its theme and genre. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A5b (4 marks, class average 63%): Plan how one code or convention in your chosen form would appeal to the teenage audience. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A6 (3 marks, class average 73%): Describe one shift in how the media and their audiences relate to each other. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling
A7 (4 marks, class average 65%): Discuss one way governments have used the media. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories, Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media
A8a (2 marks, class average 75%): Outline one example of how the media is regulated in Australia. Lesson: Media Regulation and Control in Australia
A8b (5 marks, class average 60%): Discuss an ethical or legal issue tied to the regulation you outlined in part a. Lesson: Media Regulation and Control in Australia, Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media
A9 (6 marks, class average 55%): How globalised media institutions have changed the distribution of media products, with examples. Lesson: New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling, Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media
B1 (15 marks, class average 62%): How your narrative constructs representations, and whether they reflect or challenge their context's views. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception, Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
B2 (15 marks, class average 53%): Use contemporary evidence, arguments and ideas to explain media influence and audience agency. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling

2023 Exam

A1 (3 marks, class average 77%): How one characteristic of a studied narrative reflects its genre or its style. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
A2 (6 marks, class average 55%): Relationship between a studied narrative and its institutional context, through two of four stages. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A3 (5 marks, class average 56%): How a specific audience was engaged by a studied narrative's codes and conventions. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts, Narratives in Context — Production and Reception
A4 (6 marks, class average 63%): How two media codes combine to convey meaning in one moment of a second studied narrative. Lesson: Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
A5 (5 marks, class average 58%): Methods used to document and evaluate skill development in one production experiment. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A6 (4 marks, class average 55%): How one aspect of your production design was shaped by your proposed audience. Lesson: Production Design Plans
A7 (6 marks, class average 57%): Codes and conventions you applied in production and post-production to realise your product. Lesson: Producing and Evaluating a Media Product
A8 (3 marks, class average 70%): An example of a media audience using its power to change something in today's media. Lesson: Media Influence and Effects Theories
A9 (4 marks, class average 50%): One example of Australian media self-regulation and a rationale for it. Lesson: Media Regulation and Control in Australia
A10 (6 marks, class average 57%): How a single legal or ethical issue has affected the way media products are distributed. Lesson: Ethics, Ownership and Power in the Media, Media Regulation and Control in Australia
A11 (7 marks, class average 53%): How today's media landscape enabled new modes of production and consumption. Lesson: New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling, Media Influence and Effects Theories
B1 (10 marks, class average 53%): Relationship between media narratives and ideologies, using one studied narrative's codes and conventions. Lesson: Narratives in Context — Production and Reception, Narrative Analysis — Story Elements and Codes in Studied Texts
B2 (10 marks, class average 49%): Why shifts in how media and audiences relate make the media harder to regulate. Lesson: Media Regulation and Control in Australia, Media Influence and Effects Theories, New Media, AI and the Future of Storytelling