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YEAR 10 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION, 2004

EXAMINATION ADVICE

  DATE: Wednesday, 19 th May, 2004

  STRUCTURE:  

Questions 1-20 Multiple Choice based on the topics

•  Post War Australia to the 1970s incorporating aspects of Citizenship and migrant Australians, Citizenship and Aboriginal Australians, Anti-Communism and the Vietnam War, Changing roles of women 1900 to 2000, Popular Culture

Questions 21-23 Short and extended answers to questions based on aspects of the topics

•  Australia and World War II

•  Post War Australia to the 1970s incorporating aspects of Citizenship and migrant Australians, Citizenship and Aboriginal Australians, Anti-Communism and the Vietnam War, Changing roles of women, Popular Culture, The Whitlam Years

incorporating elements from Chapters 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 in Retroactive 2.

All questions follow the typical format of the School Certificate Reference Test in Australian History, Australian Geography, Civics and Citizenship.

Outcomes being assessed

M5.9 recounts some major events in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations and accounts for how and why the nature of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations have changed

M5.13 uses historical terms and concepts in appropriate contexts to answer historical questions with some argument

M5.18 selects and uses appropriate written forms to communicate effectively about the past

M5.19 creates well-structured texts using evidence to describe and explain increasingly complex problems and issues

Mrs. Jan Brady

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