VCE 2025 Exam Timetable & 2026 VCAA English and EAL Text List
- VCE 2025 exam date:
https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/administration/key-dates/vce-examination-timetable
- VCAA ENGLISH & EAL LIST 2026
https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/curriculum/vce-curriculum/vce-study-designs/english-and-english-additional-language/english-and-english-additional-language-eal
LIST 1
NOVELS
Barker, Pat, Regeneration (NEW FOR 2026)
Bronte, Charlotte, Jane Eyre
Franklin, Miles, My Brilliant Career
García Márquez, Gabriel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Harvey, Samantha, Orbital (NEW FOR 2026)
Jackson, Shirley, We Have Always Lived in the Castel
Moss, Sarah, Ghost Wall
Ogawa, Yōko, The Memory Police
SHORT STORIES
Hadley, Tessa, Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Malouf, David, The Complete Stores
PLAYS
Harrison, Jane, Rainbow's End
Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night
Sophocies, Oedipus the King
POETRY/SONGS
Oliver, MaryNew and Selected Poems, Volume One
Hughes, Langston, Selected Poems(NEW FOR 2026)
FILMS
Johnson, Stephen(director), High Ground
Wilder, Billy(director), Sunset Boulevard
OTHER
Ottley, Matt, Requiem for a Beast
NON-FICTION
Noah, Trevor, Born a Crime
Dank, Debra, We Come with This Place(NEW FRO 2026)
LIST 2
Writing about personal journeys
Adichie, Chimananda Ngozi, 'The Danger of a Single Story'
Duong, Amy, 'The Red Plastic Chair is a Vietnamese Cultural Institution, and My Anchor'. Click here to read SBS article
Hodge, Maya, 'bidngen'
López, Matthew, Walter's speech(end of Part 1) from The Inheritance(See video below or click here to view on YouTube)
Garner, Helen, 'Dear Mrs Dunkley' (NEW FOR 2026)
Writing about play
Gay, Virginia, 'Monologue from Cyrano' (See below, or click here to view on Youtube)
(VIDEO COMING SOON)
Roffey, Chelsea, 'An Open Letter to Doubting Thomas'
Russon, Penni, 'All The We Know of Dreaming'
Winton, Tim, 'About the Boys'
Huang, Coco X, 'Impromptu: Fiction for voice and piano' (NEW FOR 2026)
Writing about country
Chekhov, Anton, 'Gooseberries'
Clarke, Maxine Beneba, Chapter 2, 'The Hate Race'
Kassab, Yumna, 'The Conquest of Land and Dream'
Lynch, Cassie, 'Split' (Flock, includes the short story 'Split')
Dillard, JD, 'An Open Letter to the Man Who Yelled "Go Back to Arica!" at Me' (NEW FOR 2026)
Writing about protest
Gillespie, Mark, 'Friday Essay: On the Sydney Mardi Gras March of 1978'
Pankjurst, Emmeline, 'Freedom or Death'
Vonnegut, Kurt, 'Harrison Bergeron' (Welcome tot he Monkey House, contains the story 'Harrison Bergeron')
Wyatt, Meyne, 'Monologue from City of Gold' (See below, or Click here to to watch the Youtube video)
Parry, Jonathan, 'What's the point of Pretest? (NEW FOR 2026)
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