• Best of luck to the class of 2024 for their HSC exams. You got this!
    Let us know your thoughts on the HSC exams here
  • YOU can help the next generation of students in the community!
    Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page

Bio Predications (6 Viewers)

Joined
Apr 23, 2024
Messages
48
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
do we need to know the structure of the ear, eye and kidney like super in depth eg for the kidney knowing the loop of henle or glomerus and labelling all of them?
 

Shabang

New Member
Joined
Oct 15, 2024
Messages
6
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
do we need to know the structure of the ear, eye and kidney like super in depth eg for the kidney knowing the loop of henle or glomerus and labelling all of them?
They're less likely to ask about the structure of the eyes, ears and kidneys and more likely to ask about diseases in those organs and how to fix them. So you're gonna want to know the parts of the organs that relate to a few specific non-infectious diseases.

But I reckon just put on a few crash course or atomi videos and you'll learn it all pretty quickly
 
Joined
Apr 23, 2024
Messages
48
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
They're less likely to ask about the structure of the eyes, ears and kidneys and more likely to ask about diseases in those organs and how to fix them. So you're gonna want to know the parts of the organs that relate to a few specific non-infectious diseases.

But I reckon just put on a few crash course or atomi videos and you'll learn it all pretty quickly
Ok cool also do we need know about action potentials and polarisation I've literally only seen it come up in 2024 cssa but nowhere else
 

Shabang

New Member
Joined
Oct 15, 2024
Messages
6
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
Ok cool also do we need know about action potentials and polarisation I've literally only seen it come up in 2024 cssa but nowhere else
It hasn't come up in any of the hsc papers so far so does that mean its more likely to come up this year?

I genuinely could not tell you tbh, I thought It would come up last year so I spent way too long trying to memorise everything, which proved to be useless lol. if you're good with the rest of the syllabus maybe go over Action potential but honestly speaking, it's one of the harder subtopics so Nesa is unlikely to give you a long response on it.

But take what I'm saying with a grain of salt cuz I haven't done bio in over a year and have no idea what the trial paper trends were like, which is usually a reflection of the paper companies' predictions of the hsc.

You've got this <3
 
Joined
Apr 23, 2024
Messages
48
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
It hasn't come up in any of the hsc papers so far so does that mean its more likely to come up this year?

I genuinely could not tell you tbh, I thought It would come up last year so I spent way too long trying to memorise everything, which proved to be useless lol. if you're good with the rest of the syllabus maybe go over Action potential but honestly speaking, it's one of the harder subtopics so Nesa is unlikely to give you a long response on it.

But take what I'm saying with a grain of salt cuz I haven't done bio in over a year and have no idea what the trial paper trends were like, which is usually a reflection of the paper companies' predictions of the hsc.

You've got this <3
Thank u!!! yeah hopefully it doesn't come up I don't think my teacher even went over it and I've never really seen it before, did u do ur hsc last year?
 

Serenawilder

Member
Joined
Oct 15, 2024
Messages
77
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
i feel like they're gonna do some stupid question on like the neuron stuff you know the movement of sodium ions

but I'm just scared. i haven't studied and I'm forgot everything so praying for the best
Oh my god, I vowed to myself to never get this out of my head because after trials I was traumatised
 

Serenawilder

Member
Joined
Oct 15, 2024
Messages
77
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
i reckon biotech 8 marker on agriculture/medicine, a kidney q, homeostasis - of glucose, a fat question on adaptive immunity, named pathogen (animal or plant) and how it affects an organism/spreads and aboriginal plant medicine
They will definitely have a big marker question on agriculture/medicine or Aboriginal stuff
 

Serenawilder

Member
Joined
Oct 15, 2024
Messages
77
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
Thank u!!! yeah hopefully it doesn't come up I don't think my teacher even went over it and I've never really seen it before, did u do ur hsc last year?
Apparently not all schools go over it (mine didn’t) so maybe they won’t make it a high marker if it comes up?
 

person3024

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 11, 2023
Messages
315
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
I hope it's not there at all but that one question in trials actually traumatised me
bro same i remember showing it to my teacher when we got our papers back because he hadn't gone through the entire thing and he was like "ohmygod they asked you action potential??" i literally thought i was in a chem exam when i saw sodium and potassium ions
 

dawg19230

New Member
Joined
Oct 16, 2024
Messages
11
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
- Some big biotechnology large response, about evaluating its impacts
- Pregnancy hormones question
- Crossing over in meiosis II
- Definitely some epidemiology case study, normally they go with smoking/lung cancer or any type of cancer with a high risk, and then ‘evaluate x…’
- Plant adaptations(?)
- Always gotta be a negative feedback loop, they always change up what it’s for tho
- For disorders+tech: question on concave/convex in correcting hyperopia / myopia, assess one hearing technology to correct sensorineural hearing loss, then for kidneys… idfk, probably like how dialysis assists those with chronic kidney disease
crossing over is meiosis I babe (prophase I) xx
 

genenian

Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2024
Messages
95
Gender
Female
HSC
2024
Ur right cause the mod 5 syllabus says this: View attachment 45200

either way the thing i was talking about was just another version of homeostasis, might have been a NEAP or another independent paper. it looked like this:
View attachment 45201
anyways it’s obvious that homeostasis is gonna be there, im just advising that we review pregnancy stuff from mod 5.
positive feexback loops are not in the syllabys r
its goot to know them anyway
 

grouchygigi

New Member
Joined
Oct 23, 2024
Messages
1
Gender
Female
HSC
2025
Predictions:
- Something about genetic drift and gene flow
- Epidemiological studies
- Lots of graphs, maybe about vaccinations
- Hormones but maybe in multiple choice, pregnancy to be specific
- Plant adaptations OR adaptation of pathogens
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 1, Guests: 5)

Top