HSC Investigating SciencePractice Examination 17

This paper covers

• 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

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.