The Separator ArchiveVCE Mathematics

VCE Mathematics · 2006–2026 · every published VCAA paper and report

2,334 questions where half the state or fewer earned full marks.

General, Methods and Specialist. VCAA's own published figures, not estimates — each with the examiner's commentary and the question as it was printed.

Questions graded5,111
Separators2,334
Question images cut4,253
Subjects3

The hardest questions ever set

Across all three subjects · by the share of the state that earned full marks

  1. 1%2011 Exam 2 Section B Q4fMethods · Calculus · 2 marks
  2. 1%2017 Exam 2 Section B Q4fSpecialist · Algebra, number and structure · 1 mark
  3. 1%2019 Exam 1 Q8cMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 2 marks
  4. 1%2019 Exam 2 Section B Q2dSpecialist · Algebra, number and structure · 2 marks
  5. 1%2021 Exam 1 Q9ciMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 2 marks
  6. 2%2013 Exam 2 Section B Q4diiiMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 2 marks
  7. 2%2016 Exam 2 Section B Q4fiiMethods · Algebra, number and structure · 2 marks
  8. 2%2017 Exam 2 Section B Q2hMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 2 marks
  9. 2%2017 Exam 2 Section B Q4hMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 2 marks
  10. 2%2017 Exam 2 Section B Q4iiiMethods · Functions, relations and graphs · 1 mark
  11. 2%2018 Exam 2 Q3eGeneral · Data analysis · 2 marks
  12. 2%2018 Exam 1 Q10Specialist · Space and measurement · 5 marks

What this is

VCAA publishes, for every question in every examination report, the percentage of students who scored each possible mark. Those tables are the only public measurement of which questions actually decide a study score — and they are buried in two hundred PDFs.

Every figure here was read out of those reports programmatically, not estimated. Every question image was cut from the examination paper it belongs to and checked against the report. Each subject's method page states exactly how, and where the data is incomplete.