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HSC Chemistry is a fun, interesting and rewarding course to do, and one of the courses commonly chosen by students who achieve 99+ ATAR because of its high scaling. While not a prerequisite as such, Chemistry helps with medical / health related courses in University as it touches on the basics of first-year Chemistry courses.

Schedule

• Term 1: Production of Materials

• Term 2: The Acidic Environment

• Term 3: Chemical Monitoring & Management

• Term 4: (Option topic)

Dux College offers the following Option topics for Term 4:

• Shipwrecks & Salvage

• Industrial Chemistry

Weekly classes

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 notes are exam-ready and sufficiently detailed, so students can concentrate and simply listen in class, instead of frantically jotting down everything being dictated.

The theory materials will cover 2 - 3 syllabus dot points per week in good detail. Our teachers will patiently teach 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 split the term's weeks into approximately 75% theory, 25% exam technique. The latter part is during the last few weeks of each school term, where practice exams are given as revision homework, to allow students to practice their accumulated knowledge under HSC exam conditions.

Homework

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.

Sample of student materials 

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