TCE Modern History exam 2026Exam: Thu 19 Nov · TASC timetable
Your TCE Modern History exam:
When and how long
- Modern History1.30 pm start3 h
TASC: morning exams commence at 9:00 am and afternoon exams at 1:30 pm. Your Notice of External Assessment (NoE) shows where and when you sit each exam.
Source: 2026 TASC written exam timetable (TASC), checked Wednesday 23 September 2026. Where a start time, reading time or duration isn't shown, the timetable doesn't publish it: check your personal timetable and the front of your paper.
What the exam covers
We don't have past-paper frequency data for this exam, so here is the course, module by module. Make sure every module is covered.
Night-before and exam-morning checklists
The night before
- Check your Notice of External Assessment (NoE) for where and when you sit each exam.[2]
- Pack a clear, sealable plastic bag: black or blue pens (not erasable), 2B pencils, sharpener, eraser, highlighters, a clear plastic ruler.[1]
- Pack your permitted calculator and a basic analogue watch (it goes on the desk, not your wrist).[1]
- Water only, in a clear plastic bottle up to 1500 mL.[1]
Exam-week survival kit: The last 7 days · The night before and exam morning · What to bring, and what's banned · How to use reading time · If you're sick or something goes wrong · Handling exam-week stress.
Last-week revision
TCE Modern History cram sheet
Key formulas, definitions and facts copied from our Modern History syllabus pages. One page when printed.
Modern Nations
Two pillars held the regime together. Heinrich Himmler built the SS, the Gestapo and the concentration camp system, beginning with Dachau in 1933, to crush opposition. Joseph Goebbels, as Minister of Propaganda, controlled press, radio, film and mass rallies such as Nuremberg to manufacture consent and the Hitler cult.
The World since 1945
Mass campaigns peaked in the early 1960s: the student sit-ins from 1960, the Freedom Rides of 1961 challenging segregated travel, the Birmingham campaign of 1963, and the March on Washington in August 1963, where King delivered his famous speech calling for racial equality.
The superpowers never fought each other directly. Instead the Cold War was waged through proxy wars, alliances, propaganda, espionage and a nuclear arms race governed by the logic of mutually assured destruction, in which both sides could annihilate the other.