VCE Sociology past exams 2023–2025

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

2025 Exam

• Q1 (4 marks, class average 48%): Examine the misconception that Australian Indigenous people share a single culture. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• Q2 (6 marks, class average 60%): Apply Mills's sociological imagination to two representations to show awareness of Indigenous experience. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• Q3 (10 marks, class average 32%): Discuss why Australians hold different views on reconciliation, using symbolic and practical examples. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation, The Voice Referendum and Self-Determination
• Q4a (2 marks, class average 90%): Identify one example of material culture in an article about a Polish restaurant. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity
• Q4b (4 marks, class average 53%): Explain how a restaurant uses Polish traditions to build belonging for Polish Australians. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q5 (4 marks, class average 40%): Explain Hall's theory of cultural hybridity and link it to experiences of ethnicity in the article. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q6 (10 marks, class average 33%): Analyse the media's impact on one ethnic group's experience in multicultural Australia. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q7 (4 marks, class average 57%): Describe how two parts of ethical methodology are put into practice in sociological research. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences, Sociology Exam — Applying Concepts, Theories and Evidence
• Q8 (6 marks, class average 53%): Identify an economic and a social factor in an article about Camden and their effect on community. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences
• Q9 (10 marks, class average 35%): How ideas of community shifted from Tönnies to Maffesoli, with examples. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences, Online Communities and Belonging
• Q10a (3 marks, class average 47%): Describe the type of social movement in a story about saving the Fitzroy pool. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies
• Q10b (4 marks, class average 60%): Identify each life-cycle stage of the Fitzroy pool campaign with evidence. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies
• Q10c (3 marks, class average 50%): Examine how the Fitzroy pool campaign used power to achieve its aim. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies, Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success
• Q11 (10 marks, class average 28%): How the life-cycle stage of a current movement shapes the social change it can achieve. Lesson: Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success, Case Study — The Climate Movement

2024 Exam

• Q1a (2 marks, class average 75%): Name one practical and one symbolic example of reconciliation from a timeline. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• Q1b (2 marks, class average 60%): Use the two examples to explain how practical and symbolic reconciliation differ. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• Q2 (6 marks, class average 67%): Evaluate how successful reconciliation has been since 2000, using three examples from the sources. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation, The Voice Referendum and Self-Determination
• Q3 (10 marks, class average 26%): Examine how one recent issue about Indigenous cultures relates to changing public awareness. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation, The Voice Referendum and Self-Determination
• Q4 (5 marks, class average 56%): Explain how Australia's diverse 2022 World Cup soccer team reflects contemporary multiculturalism. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q5 (5 marks, class average 58%): Explain how the team's make-up could have helped ethnic communities in Australia feel included. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q6 (10 marks, class average 26%): Analyse how responses to cultural practices relate to othering, using two ethnic groups. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• Q7a (4 marks, class average 55%): Describe Maffesoli's theory of neo-tribes, with one example of a neo-tribe. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences, Online Communities and Belonging
• Q7b (6 marks, class average 37%): Compare Tönnies's and Maffesoli's theories of community, with two examples. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences, Online Communities and Belonging
• Q8 (10 marks, class average 32%): Analyse how ICT and belonging interact to shape the experience of a community you researched. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences, Online Communities and Belonging
• Q9a (4 marks, class average 55%): Describe the type and current stage of a social movement you studied. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies
• Q9b (6 marks, class average 43%): Evaluate the movement's influence on social change with reference to Chenoweth, using two examples. Lesson: Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success
• Q10 (10 marks, class average 29%): Analyse how a social movement's opponents used power to try to stop the change it wanted. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies, Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success

2023 Exam

• A1 (3 marks, class average 47%): Outline Mills's sociological imagination and show how it helps understand Indigenous culture. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• A2a (3 marks, class average 37%): Describe one protection and segregation policy and how it was put into practice. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• A2b (4 marks, class average 25%): A detailed example of Aboriginal resistance to the policy from part a. Lesson: Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• A3a (7 marks, class average 59%): Assess how ethnically diverse Australia is, using census data on birthplace, ancestry and language. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity
• A3b (3 marks, class average 47%): Compare Australia's ethnic diversity with that of another developed country. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity
• A4 (4 marks, class average 63%): Explain with two examples how ICT could make members of an online disability arts group feel included or excluded. Lesson: Online Communities and Belonging, Community — Concepts and Experiences
• A5 (6 marks, class average 43%): Analyse how an online disability arts group keeps and builds a sense of community, without using ICT examples. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences
• A6 (4 marks, class average 50%): Explain how social change relates to social movements. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies, Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success
• A7 (6 marks, class average 38%): Analyse two social movements of different types and how well each fits its category. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies
• B1 (10 marks, class average 27%): Describe the context of one Indigenous cultural issue and assess one change in awareness it caused. Lesson: The Voice Referendum and Self-Determination, Australian Indigenous Culture — Public Perceptions and Reconciliation
• B2 (10 marks, class average 34%): Analyse a specific ethnic group's experience with reference to ethnocentrism. Lesson: Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity, Migrant and Refugee Experiences
• B3 (10 marks, class average 36%): Describe the nature of a community you studied and explain why it counts as a community. Lesson: Community — Concepts and Experiences
• B4 (10 marks, class average 33%): Examine how one current social movement has moved through the four life-cycle stages. Lesson: Social Movements — Purpose and Strategies, Social Movements and Social Change — Evaluating Success