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HSC Investigating Science Practice Exams with Worked Solutions
20 full-length papers · worked solutions for every question
The 20 practice exams inside the HSC Investigating Science Mastery Pack, each set out like the real paper with a separate worked-solution guide. Open any paper to see what it covers.
- Marshall and Warren's self-experiment and the linear method
- Digital versus analogue thermometers at a weather station
- Correlation and causation in a music-and-memory claim
- Nuclear meltdowns and the public image of science
- Codes of conduct for stem cell research
- Integrated 8-mark: incidents, regulation and public trust in science
- Eratosthenes' measurement of Earth's circumference
- Pressure-volume investigation with a data logger and line of best fit
- Placebo-controlled trial of a sleep supplement
- Pseudoscience in a horoscope column
- Space exploration funding versus food security
- Integrated 8-mark: world health and wellbeing
- Von Helmont's willow tree and testing a previous conclusion
- Random and systematic error in a reaction-rate experiment
- Conflict of interest in beverage-industry research
- Smallpox vaccination and eradication
- X-ray diffraction and the structure of DNA
- Integrated 8-mark: large corporations and research
- Spencer and the microwave: chance observation to technology
- Safety data sheet and risk assessment for a heated-gas experiment
- The halo effect in a celebrity skincare campaign
- Benefit-sharing and Indigenous cultural and intellectual property
- Evaluating a fertiliser company's growth claim
- Integrated 9-mark: ethical drug development in partnership with communities
- Priestley's experiments with oxygen
- Writing a valid method for a temperature and gas-volume investigation
- The 1991 hormone replacement therapy study
- Damming rivers: positive and negative aspects
- Peer-reviewed article versus popular media report
- Integrated 8-mark: evidence versus economic, social and political factors in dam decisions
- Doppler effect investigation with phones and sound frequency
- Speed and distance travelled: graphing and accuracy
- Publish or perish and the volume of scientific papers
- Development of flight and changing public belief
- Government priorities and university research budgets
- Ethics of an animal-behaviour field study
- Sample size and selection in a survey of screen time
- Numerology as pseudoscience
- Antimicrobial drugs and economic development
- Theory to technology: laws of reflection and the telescope
- Validity and reliability of a seedling-watering investigation
- Constructing a results table with correct units and precision
- Double-blind design for a copper-bracelet pain claim
- International regulation of genetically modified foods
- Nuclear power generation and human progress
- Structure and conventions of a peer-reviewed report
- Data logger uncertainty and an implausible reading
- Iridology and manipulation of scientific language
- Surgical devices and human wellbeing
- Radioactivity, radiotherapy and nuclear bombs
- Choosing experimental testing, fieldwork, surveys or modelling
- Aboriginal knowledge of native plants and bioharvesting
- Manipulation of statistical data in a company graph
- Fake science journals and public trust
- Pharmaceutical testing regulation
- The Hawthorne effect in a classroom-lighting study
- Comparing accuracy of two blood pressure monitors
- Health claims on food packaging
- Vaccination programs and world health
- Computerised simulations of Earth's geological history
- Writing a hypothesis from field data on butterflies
- Calibration error in a boiling-point measurement
- Contemporary debate: climate reporting in the media
- Fossil fuel industry and conflicts of interest
- Robotics and drones in economic development
- Marshall and Warren judged against the peer-reviewed literature of the time
- Reaction time and measurement technology
- Theory, hypothesis, belief and law in headlines
- Asbestos mining and lung cancer
- Organ transplantation codes of conduct
- Planning a claim test: chocolate bar mass
- Random versus systematic error and repeat trials
- Societal influences on remedies for health conditions
- Cloning and surrogacy regulation
- The Large Hadron Collider and the Higgs boson
- Depth-study report evaluation: diet cola and mints
- Line of best fit and identifying an outlier
- Pons and Fleischmann's cold fusion announcement
- Water purification and wastewater treatment
- Personal and cultural perspectives on diet research
- Justifying materials, cost, risk and time frame in an investigation
- Earthquake-resistant buildings and Newton's laws
- Hoax papers: Smolyanitsky and Spears
- Biotechnological weaponry and regulation
- Petroleum products and economic development
- Module 5: shake-table investigation design
- Module 6: analogue versus digital accelerometers
- Module 7: earthquake prediction claims in the media
- Module 8: damming rivers for flood mitigation
- Integrated 9-mark: petroleum products, economic development and corporate influence
- Working individually or collaboratively
- Mercury versus digital thermometers and safety
- Evidence-based versus emotive product efficacy claims
- Mining practices and ethical research
- Traditional medical treatments and research direction
- Module 5: ethics and sampling in a community health survey
- Module 6: X-ray diffraction, DNA and the science–technology cycle
- Module 7: placebo-controlled testing of a respiratory product
- Module 8: bioprospecting, benefit-sharing and Country
- Integrated 7-mark: perspectives shaping research in a mining region
- Non-linear method in modern research
- Measuring speed with light gates versus stopwatches
- Control groups and sample bias in a supplement study
- Gene manipulation ethics: embryos and sex cells
- Corporations and market-driven research
- Module 5: Von Helmont, Doppler and Priestley as investigation types
- Module 6: light gates, ramp speeds and graphing
- Module 7: the 1991 HRT study and the Mozart Effect
- Module 8: germline editing and international regulation
- Integrated 8-mark: does market-driven research serve society?
- Investigating a scientist who falsified results
- Reliability across repeated digital measurements
- Correlation versus causation in a sugar and hyperactivity claim
- Positive and negative views of nuclear power after an incident
- DNA structure and genetically modified crops
- Module 5: testable hypotheses and survey data on public attitudes
- Module 6: digital balances, Geiger counters and random error
- Module 7: Schön, Hwang and how fraud is uncovered
- Module 8: Fukushima, Chernobyl and nuclear policy
- Integrated 9-mark: have GM crops benefited society?
- Writing a method to test a sports-drink claim
- Graphing temperature and reaction time with correct axes
- Media portrayal of a vaccine debate
- Protection of Indigenous cultural and intellectual property
- Analysing the continuous cycle of science and technology
- Module 5: ethics and sampling in a human performance trial
- Module 6: reaction rate data, safety data sheets and graph conventions
- Module 7: the Wakefield case, false balance and astrology testing
- Module 8: vaccination, benefit-sharing and space spending
- Integrated 7-mark: microscopes, refraction and the cycle of science and technology
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