As your HSC year comes to an end it is important for you not to give up! Often I see students who have struggled throughout their year and have worked hard, only to not get the marks in the trial that they were hoping for. But don't let this get you down! You were always [...]
Many students create flashcards, but only use them one (1) way - read the syllabus, recite the content, flip and check. Now, this is definitely the way most people use flashcards, and is a good starting place to using them. But I have 5 other ways for you to use your flashcards to further develop [...]
As your final term of school begins you should be spending much of your time preparing for your HSC PDHPE trial exam. Your trial is likely to be worth around 30% of your submitted school grade and can often seem daunting. Trial exams are often the most difficult exams you will do in your HSC. [...]
The ethics around drug use in sport are wide, but he HSC PDHPE syllabus want you to consider whether the use of drugs is for personal success or big business. Over the last 30 years sport has changed dramatically going from games we played, to big business. Sport is now a multi-million dollar industry in [...]
Study camps are a great way to get ahead in HSC PDHPE and the HSC in general. Study camps, however, are underutilised as a resource or the HSC. I still remember the study camp I went on in year 12 when I completed my HSC. Before the study camp, I was averaging just over a [...]
One thing students often do not do well is plan for their extended response in HSC PDHPE exams. This article will look at POET for extended response, a basic model used to outline or plan an essay or extended response. You may have come across POET before in English or another subject. I am going [...]
Both times that there has been a HSC exam question on this topic the question has focused on "why is it important to prioritise?" and for good reason. The question "why is it important to prioritise?" really brings together the content for the dot point "identifying priority health issues". Firstly, it is important to prioritise because [...]
For Health Priorities in Australia, one of the first issues you are asked to consider is how we identify priority issues for Australia's health? This question is almost identical to the critical question "How are priority issues for Australia's health identified?" The principles of social justice, as covered in Preliminary PDHPE (see here), are: equity, diversity, [...]
Technology has caused a massive increase in performance over the past 40 years. David Epstein (in the video below) describes how the simple change in running surface and the use of running blocks has revolutionised the times for running events at the Olympic Games. Please take the time to watch this video. This video provides [...]
The BOSTES key word justify occurs periodically throughout the HSC PDHPE syllabus. BOSTES define the term as follows: Support an argument or conclusion The key word justify relates to two other BOSTES key words: Account Account for: state reasons for, report on. Give an account of: narrate a series of events or transactions Which is [...]