Units 3 and 4 General Mathematics Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge of concepts of statistics, growth and decay in sequences, graphs and networks, and financial mathematics in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts selects and applies techniques in mathematics and statistics …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Mathematical Methods Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge of concepts of functions, integration and distributions in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts selects and applies techniques in functions, integration and distributions to solve routine and non-routine problems …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Mathematical Methods | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Specialist Mathematics Achievement Standard
demonstrates knowledge and understanding of concepts of functions, calculus, vectors and statistics in routine and non-routine problems in a variety of contexts synthesises information to select and apply techniques in mathematics to solve routine and …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Biology Achievement Standard
For the biological systems studied, the student: analyses how system components function and are interrelated across a range of scales to enable continuity of individuals, populations and species analyses how the function and interrelationships of system …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Chemistry Achievement Standard
For the chemical systems studied, the student: analyses how a range of interrelated factors affect atomic and molecular interactions and change the structure, properties and dynamics of chemical systems analyses how interactions between matter and energy …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Earth and Environmental Science Achievement Standard
For the Earth systems studied, the student: analyses how human activities and Earth processes affect components of, and interactions between, Earth systems across a range of temporal and spatial scales analyses how interactions between Earth systems …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Earth and Environmental Science | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Physics Achievement Standard
For the physical systems studied, the student: analyses physical phenomena in complex scenarios at a range of scales qualitatively and quantitatively analyses the relationships between mass, energy and properties of physical systems qualitatively and …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Ancient History Achievement Standard
evaluates the extent of change and continuity related to the key institutions, structures and features of ancient societies and the significance of change for society analyses causes contributing to change and continuity in particular contexts and assesses …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Geography Achievement Standard
The student: analyses how processes of change have spatial consequences in places and environments across a range of scales, and evaluates the role of context analyses interconnections between people, places and environments, and evaluates their geographical …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Units 3 and 4 Modern History Achievement Standard
explains change over time in different places, evaluates the significance of change for societies, and for the relationships between different groups analyses causes contributing to change and continuity in particular contexts and assesses their relative …
Units 3 and 4 | Achievement standards | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: People, Power and Authority Ancient History
This unit involves an investigation of ONE ancient society across a broad historical period, with a particular emphasis on the nature and exercise of power and authority in that society. Students also study ONE individual who had a significant impact …
Unit 3: People, Power and Authority | Ancient History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Land cover transformations Geography
This unit focuses on the changing biophysical cover of the earth’s surface, its impact on global climate and biodiversity, and the creation of anthropogenic biomes. In doing so, it examines the processes causing change in the earth’s land cover. These …
Unit 3: Land cover transformations | Geography | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4: Structure, synthesis and design Chemistry
Current and future applications of chemistry include the development of specialised techniques to create, or synthesise, new substances to meet the specific needs of society, including pharmaceuticals, fuels, polymers and nanomaterials. In this unit, …
Unit 4 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century Modern History
This unit examines the characteristics of modern nations in the 20th century; the crises that confronted nations, their responses to these crises and the different paths nations have taken to fulfil their goals. Students study the characteristics of TWO …
Unit 3: Modern Nations in the 20th century | Modern History | Humanities and Social Sciences | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2 Specialist Mathematics
Unit 2 of Specialist Mathematics contains three topics – ‘Trigonometry’, ‘Real and complex numbers’ and ‘Matrices’… ‘Trigonometry’ contains techniques that are used in other topics in both this unit and Unit 3. ‘Real and complex numbers’ provides a continuation …
Unit 2 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 2: Linear Motion and Waves Physics
In this unit, students develop an appreciation of how an understanding of motion and waves can be used to describe, explain and predict a wide range of phenomena. Students describe linear motion in terms of position and time data, and examine the relationships …
Unit 2 | Physics | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Chemical fundamentals: structure, properties and reactions Chemistry
Chemists design and produce a vast range of materials for many purposes, including for fuels, cosmetics, building materials and pharmaceuticals. As the science of chemistry has developed over time, there has been an increasing realisation that the properties …
Unit 1 | Chemistry | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 Specialist Mathematics
Unit 1 of Specialist Mathematics contains three topics – ‘Combinatorics’, ‘Vectors in the plane’ and ‘Geometry’ – that complement the content of Mathematical Methods. The proficiency strand, Reasoning, of the F–10 curriculum is continued explicitly in …
Unit 1 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities
Literacy is important in students’ development of Science Inquiry Skills and their understanding of content presented through the Science Understanding and Science as a Human Endeavour strands. Students gather, interpret, synthesise and critically analyse …
Representation of General capabilities | Science | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1: Biodiversity and the interconnectedness of life Biology
The current view of the biosphere as a dynamic system composed of Earth’s diverse, interrelated and interacting ecosystems developed from the work of eighteenth and nineteenth century naturalists, who collected, classified, measured and mapped the distribution …
Unit 1 | Biology | Science | Senior secondary curriculum