Practice VCE English Exam 2025 Edition + Answer Marking Guide

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This resource contains a PDF trial paper for VCE English, aligned to VCAA 2025’s requirements + texts. Additionally, it includes an Answer Marking Guide. 

What’s Included in the Answer Marking Guide?

• VCAA Marking Rubric
• Section A Self-marking checklist
• Section B Creating Texts ‘samples’ + framework title/stimulus breakdown (Frameworks: Play, Protest, Country, Personal Journey)
• Section C ‘High-scoring’ sample essay + essay plan

VCE Texts/Films Included in the Practice Exam Section A:

Bad Dreams and Other Stories by Tessa Hadley, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella, Flames by Robbie Arnott, Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, High Ground directed by Stephen Johnson, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Rainbow’s End by Jane Harrison, Requiem for a Beast by Matt Ottley, Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss, Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder, The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, The Complete Stories by David Malouf, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver

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