WACE Geography exam 2026Exam: Wed 11 Nov · SCSA timetable
Your WACE Geography exam:
When and how long
- Geography2.00 pm start3 h plus 10 min reading time
SCSA: arrive 30 minutes before the examination start time. Every ATAR written exam has 10 minutes reading time and 3 hours working time unless otherwise indicated. The timetable is final, and no allowance is made for misreading it.
Source: 2026 Year 12 ATAR course written examinations timetable (SCSA), 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
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
WACE Geography cram sheet
Key formulas, definitions and facts copied from our Geography syllabus pages. One page when printed.
Unit 3: Global Networks and Interconnections
A transnational corporation (TNC) is a firm that owns or controls production, services or assets in two or more countries. It coordinates a global network of facilities and suppliers, typically from a headquarters in a high-income home country, to minimise costs and maximise market reach.
Geographers describe globalisation as time-space compression: improvements in transport and communication (containerised shipping, jet aircraft, fibre-optic cables, the internet) make distant places feel closer because flows move faster and more cheaply. Distance still matters, but it matters less than it once did.
A global production network is the worldwide web of firms, suppliers and contractors that together make and distribute a product. It is usually coordinated by a lead firm, often a transnational corporation, even though most physical work is done by separate companies in many countries.
A globalisation index is a composite measure that combines indicators of economic flows (trade and investment), social flows (migration, tourism, communication) and political integration (treaties and memberships) into a single score, allowing countries to be ranked and compared on how globally connected they are.
Unit 4: Planning and Sustainable Futures
A primate city is a city that is disproportionately larger and more dominant than any other city in its country, often several times the size of the second city and concentrating a large share of national population, economy and government. Bangkok, Lima and Buenos Aires are classic examples.
Urbanisation is the increase in the proportion of a population living in urban areas, usually caused by people moving from rural to urban areas and by higher natural increase in cities. It is distinct from urban growth, which is simply the rise in the absolute number of city dwellers.
Urban planning is the deliberate management of land use, development, transport and infrastructure in towns and cities to achieve social, economic and environmental goals. It uses statutory tools such as zoning and planning schemes, and strategic documents that set long-term directions.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This principle of intergenerational equity is the foundation of sustainability and applies across economic, environmental and social decisions.