Agricultural Systems and Enterprises
Farms as systems: inputs, processes, outputs and the decisions that connect them.
- Farm inputs, processes and outputs
- Climate and land capability
- Production systems: cropping, grazing, horticulture
NSW Agricultural Technology Years 7-10 (Stage 5, Year 9) - agricultural systems and enterprises, plants and soils, animals and welfare - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Agricultural Technology Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Farms as systems: inputs, processes, outputs and the decisions that connect them.
How crops grow, what soil provides, and how management decisions change the outcome.
Animal production and welfare: what an animal needs and what the producer owes it.
A Agricultural Technology Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| select | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.