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VCE Specialist Maths is one of the hardest subjects that students undertake in the VCE. Often students who undertake this course can expect to get their marks scaled up a lot. When we have interviewed our tutors and successful students, the number one piece of advice for how to do well in the final exam is to do practice questions.
Check out this article where we explain why past papers are the most important way to study for an exam
The questions you practice out of your textbook are good to build the base knowledge, but they are often very different to the questions they ask in the exam. You need to be getting familiar with the style of questions they ask in exams. Obviously exams change from year to year, but VCE examiners will often re-use question formats from previous year exams.
However, you can only really start doing practice exams once you have completed the entire course. So what if you wanted to practice exam-style questions before then?
100+ VCE Specialist Maths MCQ For You To Download
We have gone through the last 10 Specialist Maths exams and extracted the multiple choice questions, organised them by topic, sub-topic and difficulty so that you have a centralised question repository that lets you gauge your understanding, streamline your exam preparation, and structure your study plan. Questions are either rated as:
- š¢ Easy = 75%+ of students got this question correct
- š” Medium = 50% to 75% of students got this correct
- š“ Hard = 25% to 50% of students got this correct
- š„ Very hard = <25% of students got this question correct
These are questions you will see on Section A of Paper 2 of the Specialist Maths exam.
If you want to improve your exam performance, check out our article that goes through the entire examiners report and identifies the insights students need to know.
100+ Practice VCE Specialist Maths MCQ From The Past 10 Years
Practice makes perfect. Get 100+ MCQ questions organised by topic, sub-topic and difficulty so you can prepare like a 99.00+ ATAR student.
How to use this resource?
You can use this resource in two ways. Either as soon as you finish the topic in class or in SWOTVAC when you want to do a review on past work.
Once you are ready, you should go through every question and try and answer it on your own.
If you get it correct, great! You can mark it as āCorrectā in the table for each topic.
The document is organised by topic. Underneath each topic, the questions are organised by sub-topic and difficulty. Here you can record how you go as well as leave notes for yourself.
If you get it incorrect, you can leave a note in the table for each topic. This means you need to do some further study on the topic or get some help to understand why you got it wrong. You need to keep a log of all your incorrect answers.
You should then return to answer these questions in a couple of weeks to ensure you now understand these questions.
In the exam, there will be 20 MCQ each worth one mark. That means it makes up 25% of your overall mark for this exam. The exam is 120 minutes long, therefore you should expect to spend at most 30 minutes on the MCQ. This suggests that you can spend 90 seconds on each question. As part of your practice, you also need to think about speed.
On your first pass through, do not worry about speed. But as you get closer to the exam, you need to be thinking about how long it is taking you to answer each question.
Have any questions about VCE Specialist Maths? Check out our comprehensive guide where we cover everything you need to know as a Specialist Maths student.
VCE Specialist Maths exam details
In VCE Specialist Maths your SACs will make up 40% of your final mark with the remaining 60% coming from the two papers:
| Paper 1 | Paper 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 1 hour | 2 hours |
| Calculator / Tech | NOT allowed (technology-free) | Approved technology allowed (CAS permitted) |
| Format | Short-answer and some extended-answer (no multiple choice) | Multiple-choice and extended-answer |
| Weighting | 20% | 40% |
Note: A formula sheet is provided for Paper 1; one bound reference is allowed for Paper 2.
The multiple choice questions are 25% of Paper 2. This means doing well in the multiple choice questions will contribute 10% of your overall final mark for Specialist Maths.
Some practice questions
Are you ready for your VCE Specialist Maths exam? Test yourself on some questions below, taken from past VCAA exams. We have provided an easier and a harder question per topic.
Functions, Relations and Graphs
Easy: Absolute value functions question from 2022. 85% of students got this correct.
Hard: Rational functions and asymptotes question from 2022. Only 38% of students got this correct.
Algebra, Number and Structure
Easy: Complex numbers on an Argand diagram question from 2017. 75% of students got this correct.
Hard: Powers of i question from 2019. Only 44% of students got this correct.
Differential Calculus
Medium: Stationary points question from 2020. 70% of students got this correct.
Hard: Points of inflection question from 2021. Only 38% of students got this correct.
Integral Calculus
Easy: Length of a parametric curve question from 2018. 78% of students got this correct.
Medium: Integration by substitution question from 2017. 60% of students got this correct.
Differential Equations
Easy: Mixing problem question from 2020. 76% of students got this correct.
Hard: Slope fields question from 2020. Only 35% of students got this correct.
If you want to get all these questions organised by topic and difficulty, download our free document.
