Living World
Evolution as the unifying explanation, ecosystems as systems, and the technologies that act on heredity.
- Natural selection and adaptation
- Evidence for evolution
- Speciation and extinction
NSW Science Stage 5 (Year 10) substrands - Living World, Chemical World, Physical World, Earth and Space - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Science Year 10” 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.
Evolution as the unifying explanation, ecosystems as systems, and the technologies that act on heredity.
Reaction rates and energy, carbon chemistry, and the chemistry behind fuels and materials.
Motion and forces quantified, and the physics of electricity generation and nuclear energy.
Climate as a system, the universe at scale, and the evidence behind both.
A Science Year 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| calculate | Calculation | 2–4 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| predict | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 10 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.