Farms as systems: inputs, processes, outputs and the decisions that connect them.
These are the statements the Agricultural Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Agricultural Systems and Enterprises. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Farm inputs, processes and outputs - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Climate and land capability - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Production systems: cropping, grazing, horticulture - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Value adding and supply chains - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Farm business planning - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Technology on the farm - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Risk and diversification - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Australian agriculture in a global market - Agricultural Systems and Enterprises, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Agricultural Systems and Enterprises are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Agricultural Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Agricultural Systems and Enterprises opens the Agricultural Technology Year 9 course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Agricultural Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.