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.
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 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 enthusiastically teach every week's content from first principles, ensuring a good fundamental knowledge base for each dot-point. 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.
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. Our teachers will show students the most accurate / best practice methods to properly conduct a titration or qualitative ion test. Students are also shown the most common sources of error and what safety issues need to be identified so that HSC exam questions dealing with experiments will be easy.
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.
