Law and Society
How law is made, applied and changed, and what happens when a citizen meets the legal system.
- Sources of law: statute and common law
- The court hierarchy
- Criminal versus civil law
NSW Commerce (Year 10) core and option topics - law and society, promoting and selling, running a business, investing - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Commerce Year 10” 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.
How law is made, applied and changed, and what happens when a citizen meets the legal system.
How businesses find, persuade and keep customers - and where persuasion becomes manipulation.
The numbers behind a business and the decisions behind an investment.
A Commerce Year 10 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 | 3–5 |
| classify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| define | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 10 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 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.