Questioning, planning, measuring and the logic of a controlled investigation.
These are the statements the Investigating Science syllabus makes about Scientific Inquiry. 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.
The inquiry cycle from question to conclusion, and what each stage must contain to be valid.
Primary and secondary data, sampling and measurement, and choosing an analysis that fits the data.
Correlation, confounding and the design features that let a study support a causal claim.
Turning an interest into a question that a feasible investigation can answer.
Independent, dependent and controlled variables, and the control group that makes comparison meaningful.
The difference between accuracy and precision, and the types of error that threaten each.
Risk assessment and ethical review, and why both constrain the design rather than following it.
Why a single result is not evidence, and how replication and sample size affect confidence.
HSC Investigating Science - Examination Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Scientific Inquiry 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 Investigating Science 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.
Scientific Inquiry opens the Investigating Science course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Investigating Science dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.