Core 1: Resource Management
How individuals and families identify needs, allocate resources, make decisions and manage wellbeing under constraint.
- Resource Management: Time, Energy and Finance
- Wellbeing and Social Justice
- Needs and Wants
NSW Community and Family Studies Stage 6 syllabus structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Community and Family Studies” 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.
How individuals and families identify needs, allocate resources, make decisions and manage wellbeing under constraint.
How individuals function in groups, the effect of roles and norms, and the development of the person across the life span.
Family structures and functions, parenting and caring, and the communities and support networks families rely on.
One option studied in depth: parenting and caring, groups in context, family and societal interactions, individuals and work, or the social impact of technology.
Research methods, ethics and the design of the Independent Research Project. Assessed through the project, not the written paper.
A Community and Family Studies 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 | 4–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 4–6 |
| compare | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| explain | Short answer | 4–6 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| justify | Short answer | 4–6 |
HSC Community and Family Studies - Trial Paper Shape — 100 marks, 180 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.