Geography
Geography learning area contacts:
- Carolyn Fleischer : +61 8 9273 6735 | Carolyn.Fleischer@scsa.wa.edu.au
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ATAR
The study of the Geography ATAR course draws on students’ curiosity about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments. It provides students with the knowledge and understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of natural and ecological hazards, international integration in a range of spatial contexts, land cover transformations, and the challenges affecting the sustainability of places. In the ATAR course, students learn how to collect information from primary and secondary sources, such as field observation and data collection, mapping, monitoring, remote sensing, case studies and reports.
SyllabusGrading Support Materials- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (658.3 KB) Last updated: 18 Jul 2024 11:36am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (415.9 KB) Last updated: 18 Jul 2024 11:36am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2025 (658.2 KB) Last updated: 18 Jul 2024 11:30am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2025 (417.0 KB) Last updated: 18 Jul 2024 11:30am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (499.2 KB) Last updated: 02 Feb 2024 1:44pm
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (320.6 KB) Last updated: 02 Feb 2024 1:44pm
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2025 (667.2 KB) Last updated: 09 Aug 2024 8:43am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2025 (417.9 KB) Last updated: 09 Aug 2024 8:48am
- ATAR Year 12 - Summary of Minor syllabus changes 2025 (164.1 KB) Last updated: 09 Aug 2024 9:18am
- ATAR Year 12 - Summary of Minor syllabus changes 2025 (26.5 KB) Last updated: 09 Aug 2024 9:18am
Examination Materials- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (328.7 KB) Last updated: 12 May 2025 4:11pm
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (211.7 KB) Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 7:24am
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment outline (420.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:11pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment outline (344.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:11pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment tasks (1.0 MB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:11pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment tasks (962.2 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:11pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample course outline (489.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:12pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample course outline (414.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:11pm
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment outline (259.2 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:12am
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment outline (343.5 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:13am
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment tasks (536.5 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:13am
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment tasks (620.4 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:13am
- ATAR Year 12 sample course outline (417.6 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:14am
- ATAR Year 12 sample course outline (418.3 KB) Last updated: 20 Sep 2024 9:14am
- 2024 Summary examination report for candidates (121.8 KB) Last updated: 11 Apr 2025 12:42pm
- 2024 Examination (375.5 KB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 11:53am
- 2024 Marking Key (940.6 KB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 11:53am
- 2024 Examination Broadsheet A2 (5.9 MB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 11:53am
- 2024 Examination Broadsheet A3 (6.1 MB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 11:53am
- Sample ATAR examination (for teaching from January 1, 2023) (579.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:52pm
- Sample ATAR marking key (for teaching from January 1, 2023) (1.2 MB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:52pm
- Sample Geography broadsheet (high resolution A2) (for teaching from January 1, 2023) (39.4 MB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:52pm
- Sample Geography broadsheet (low resolution A3) (for teaching from January 1, 2023) (39.5 MB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:52pm
- ATAR Year 12 Sample planning sheet (54.6 KB) Last updated: 26 Feb 2025 9:27am
- Additional Past ATAR Course Examinations
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General
In the Geography General course students learn how to collect information from primary and secondary sources, such as field observation and data collection, mapping, monitoring, remote sensing, case studies and reports. Geography as a discipline values imagination, creativity and speculation as modes of thought. It develops students’ knowledge about the interconnections between places and explores the spatial patterns and processes related to environments at risk, and to the protection of such environments through management at local, regional and global levels.
SyllabusGrading Support Materials- General Syllabus Year 11 (420.9 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:36pm
- General Syllabus Year 11 (304.4 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:36pm
- General Syllabus Year 12 (436.7 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:37pm
- General Syllabus Year 12 (184.2 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:37pm
Externally Set Task Materials 2025- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (328.7 KB) Last updated: 12 May 2025 4:11pm
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (211.7 KB) Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 7:24am
- General Year 11 sample assessment outline (443.6 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 11 sample assessment outline (347.8 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 11 sample assessment tasks (606.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 11 sample assessment tasks (650.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 11 sample course outline (503.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 11 sample course outline (360.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:13pm
- General Year 12 sample course outline (343.4 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:38pm
- General Year 12 sample course outline (247.0 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:38pm
- General Year 12 sample assessment outline (434.4 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:38pm
- General Year 12 sample assessment outline (352.0 KB) Last updated: 01 Oct 2024 2:38pm
- General Year 12 sample assessment tasks (649.5 KB) Last updated: 30 May 2024 9:39am
- General Year 12 sample assessment tasks (617.2 KB) Last updated: 30 May 2024 9:38am
Externally Set Task Materials 2024- 2025 General EST Unit 3 content (183.7 KB) Last updated: 18 Sep 2024 9:58am
Externally Set Task Materials 2023- 2024 General EST Unit 3 content (300.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:36pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2022- 2023 General EST Unit 3 Content (203.2 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2021- 2022 General EST Unit 3 Content (314.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:33pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2020- 2021 GEO General EST Unit 3 Content (296.1 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:22pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2019- 2020 General EST Unit 3 Content (327.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:10pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2018- 2019 General EST Unit 3 content (172.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:50pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2017- 2018 General EST Unit 3 content (167.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:34pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2016- 2017 General EST Unit 3 content (169.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:23pm
- 2017 General EST Unit 3 content (171.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:23pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
- General sample EST (305.8 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
- General sample EST (184.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
- General sample EST marking key (327.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
- General sample EST marking key (204.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
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Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.