Living World
Reproduction, inheritance and disease: how characteristics are passed on and how organisms defend themselves.
- Asexual and sexual reproduction
- Cell division: mitosis and meiosis
- Inheritance and genetic crosses
NSW Science Stage 5 (Year 9) 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 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.
Reproduction, inheritance and disease: how characteristics are passed on and how organisms defend themselves.
The periodic table as an explanatory tool, atomic structure, and reactions including acids and bases.
Waves, light and heat: the physics that explains sound, vision and thermal comfort.
Deep time and plate tectonics, and the evidence used to reconstruct Earth's history.
A Science 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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.