No idea, I didn't do the Catholic trial paper but teacher got us a copy and the questions for our electives were crazy. Stuff we'd never expect.Come prepared for everything briefly, but take particular care in knowing past hsc questions.
you can pretty much get anything for P+H so you really do need to be prepared for everything to cover yourself, the societies are pretty similar in that regard, for the time period and personalities there are usually 3 or so really key big issues that are routinely examined, eg: Xerxes: Greek wars, building program (persepolis), maintaining the empire. Though sometimes the BoS does like to throw random questions in there for shits and giggles, but not too often.
You can never cross anything out with confidence ^^Btw, I don't think they will ask about Hellenism (or I hope) and if they do go for Hamilcar, it's probably going to be about his role in the First Punic War.. there's very little on the adopted Hasdrubal to write about other than he was a diplomatic Carthaginian leader in Spain for about ~8 years and signed the Ebro River treaty. Maybe an assess the role of the Barca dynasty in the Punic Wars? (I think they've asked this before) Or explain the effect the wars on expansion had on society and the economy? (this would be an ideal question)I hope for something like: Evaluate the significance of (battle(s)) on the course of the (1st/2nd PW), but hahahah we all have dreams..
of course no one is crossing it off with their syllabus sheet in hand like 'hmm that's been assessed in the past, and by rational deductive logic i conclude this will be examined in the 09 paper'.