Plant Production
Plant growth, nutrition, protection and production systems, from soil to harvest.
- Plant Growth and Development
- Plant Nutrition and Soil
- Plant Protection
NSW Agriculture Stage 6 structure, expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Agriculture” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Plant growth, nutrition, protection and production systems, from soil to harvest.
Animal nutrition, health, breeding and welfare in production systems.
Whole-farm analysis: resources, enterprises, risk and sustainability decisions.
Elective enterprises and technologies, and their place in a farming system.
A Agriculture paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–6 |
| assess | Short answer | 3–5 |
| calculate | Calculation | 2–4 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| determine | Calculation | 3–4 |
| evaluate | Short answer | 3–5 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 8–10 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–5 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| interpret | Short answer | 3–5 |
| justify | Short answer | 3–5 |
| propose | Short answer | 3–6 |
HSC Agriculture - Written Paper Shape — 100 marks, 180 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.