One of the best ways for you to learn the difference between an answer in an exam that is worth 6/8 and one worth 8/8 is to compare answers in these bands using the HSC standards package, or, if your teacher or you would like to to have purchased one, the HSC PDHPE Exam Workbooks. [...]
Marking criteria follows a very clear pattern in the HSC exam. There is a very clear hierarchy. At the top of this is critically evaluate and at the bottom is identify. The best way to learn how marking criteria work is to understand this hierarchy as well as know the definitions for your key words. [...]
Why you should plan your answer "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!" is one of the most well known saying from Benjamin Franklin. This phrase is true for much of life including writing HSC exam answers. If you don't have a plan how do you know where you are going? How [...]
Writing answers to 6-12 mark questions in your HSC exam can be daunting for many students. However, this doesn't need to be the case. If we can break down the writing process to writing just a single paragraph at a time you can easily write a single page to a three page answer. In this article, [...]
In HSC PDHPE it is vital that you ensure your extended, and even the longer short answer responses are well written and address the question. This article provides a couple of tips to help you improve your writing in exams. Firstly, you should make sure you get straight into the answer. There is no need [...]
https://youtu.be/l0PxhrDkKzI Click here If you want to complete the practice exam question walk through yourself, the link above will allow you to make a copy of the document used in the video, or you can use file>make a copy from the embedded file above..The HSC PDHPE 2012 exam, Question 23 asks "How is epidemiology used to [...]
Compare the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with the broader Australian population. This is question 21. b) in the 2009 HSC PDHPE exam. The answer below was kindly provided by Melissa. ATSI population has relatively poorer health compared to the rest of the population. ATSI people have the largest gap in health [...]
The 2015 HSC PDHPE exam, Questions 24 asks: To what extent is access to health care facilities and services equitable for all Australians? and is worth 8 Marks. Below is a lovely sample answer from Xanthe. Personally, I loved the first paragraph. It really sets up the rest of the answer and shows that the question [...]
One of the keys to success in HSC PDHPE exams is to improve your writing so that your extended response can be written faster, but have a better quality of content. This article will outline 5 strategies that you should employ to help improve your writing for extended response questions. 1-Think about it The first [...]
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 [...]