HSC Biology is a fun and rewarding science course that benefits from above-average scaling.
Dux College offers the following Option topics for Term 4:
Each week, there will be a 2 hour interactive class which will cover a section of the course in detail. In each class, students will receive a theory booklet which contains all the notes they need for that week's content. The notesprovide an excellent course summary organised by syllabus dot-point, so students have a great tool for exam revision.
Our teachers will cover every week's content from first principles, ensuring a good fundamental knowledge base for each dot-point. For the dot-points dealing with First-hand investigations, we will sometimes conduct experiments in class. Our sciences courses are timed such that we expect to finish the whole term module in the first 7-8 weeks, leaving the remainder of the term for revision and exam technique.
We do live demonstrations in class for important experiment dot-points so students don't miss out on these important syllabus dot-points that will be assessed in practical exams. Demonstrations include viewing cell structure, stages of mitosis / meiosis and other microscopic things under a microscope, dissections, analysis of biological models, and other activities. Classes will also go through the practical skills required by the syllabus so students aren't caught off-guard by these types of exam questions.
Each week's booklet will have a homework section which contains questions covering all the dot-points covered in that week. The questions are laid outin HSC exam format, complete with the amount of marks each question is worth. All homework is marked according to a marking criteria, so teachers can explain to students the exact break-down of the marks allocation and give accurate feedback for improvement.
