Community and Family Studies · Stage 6

Core 2: Individuals and Groups

How individuals function in groups, the effect of roles and norms, and the development of the person across the life span.

Dot points
7
Module
2 of 5
Course
Community and Family Studies
01What this module asks of you

The 7 syllabus dot points in Core 2: Individuals and Groups

These are the statements the Community and Family Studies syllabus makes about Core 2: Individuals and Groups. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.

  1. 01

    Individuals and Groups: Roles and Relationships

    The roles an individual occupies, how those roles conflict, and how relationships are maintained across them.

  2. 02

    Life Stages: Pregnancy, Infancy and Childhood

    The needs, capacities and social expectations attached to the earliest life stages.

  3. 03

    Life Stages: Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Identity formation, increasing autonomy, and the transition into work and independent living.

  4. 04

    Life Stages: Adulthood, Ageing and Aged Care

    Changing roles in mid and later life, and the care arrangements and policy settings that support ageing.

  5. 05

    Groups in Society

    The kinds of groups people belong to, and how a group's purpose shapes the behaviour expected within it.

  6. 06

    Roles, Norms and Conformity

    How norms are enforced, why individuals conform, and what happens when someone does not.

  7. 07

    Leadership and Group Dynamics

    Leadership styles and their effect on a group, including the difference between authority and influence.

02How it is examined

What a Core 2: Individuals and Groups question asks you to do

HSC Community and Family Studies - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Core 2: Individuals and Groups are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Community and Family Studies uses.

analyse4–6assess4–6compare3–5evaluate3–5evaluate8–10explain4–6identify1justify4–6

Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.

03Where this module sits

Core 2: Individuals and Groups in the Community and Family Studies course

Core 2: Individuals and Groups is module 2 of 5 in Community and Family Studies. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.

Find the Core 2: Individuals and Groups dot points you have never been asked

Dux diagnoses Community and Family Studies dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.