A focused full-day Biology intensive for the final weeks before the 2026 HSC. Revisit Heredity, Genetic Change, Infectious Disease and Non-infectious Disease and Disorders, then apply that knowledge to data, stimulus material and HSC-style questions with expert teacher guidance.
Date
Thursday 1 October
Time
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Campus
Macquarie University — room TBC
Availability
30 places left
A real InspirationED workshop
Live teaching, guided exam practice and room to ask questions.
Biology · Full course intensive
HSC Biology tests whether students can use course knowledge, not simply recall it. Across a 100-mark paper, students must interpret unfamiliar data, analyse biological processes, connect evidence to a conclusion and communicate with accurate scientific language. This workshop brings Modules 5–8 and the Working Scientifically skills together so students can make stronger decisions across objective-response, short-answer and extended-response questions.
Best for
Year 12 Biology students who understand much of the course content but want stronger connections across Modules 5–8, more confidence with data and stimulus questions, and greater precision in longer HSC responses.
Aligned to the 2026 HSC
Biology Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)
The 2026 HSC Biology examination is based on the 2017 syllabus. The replacement 2025 syllabus begins with Year 11 in 2027 and has its first HSC examination in 2028.
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$250
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The Year 12 course
The day connects the Year 12 course with the examination skills students need to apply it.
Module 5 · approximately one quarter of the HSC paper
Connect reproduction and cell replication to DNA, polypeptide synthesis, genetic variation and inheritance patterns. Practise using models, pedigrees, Punnett squares and population data to explain how genetic information is transmitted and expressed.
Key language: reproduction · mitosis and meiosis · DNA replication · polypeptide synthesis · genetic variation · pedigrees and Punnett squares · inheritance patterns
Module 6 · approximately one quarter of the HSC paper
Examine how mutation, gene flow and genetic drift change populations, then evaluate biotechnology and genetic technologies in agricultural, medical and industrial contexts. Focus on explaining processes, interpreting evidence and making justified judgements about benefits, risks and biodiversity.
Key language: mutation · mutagens · gene flow · genetic drift · biotechnology · cloning · recombinant DNA · transgenic organisms · biodiversity
Module 7 · approximately one quarter of the HSC paper
Link pathogens and transmission to host responses, immunity, prevention, treatment and control. Practise analysing outbreak and population data, comparing strategies and explaining the interactions between infectious agents, hosts and public-health responses.
Key language: pathogens · transmission · host response · innate and adaptive immunity · vaccination · pharmaceuticals · epidemics and pandemics · disease control
Module 8 · approximately one quarter of the HSC paper
Bring together homeostasis, causes and effects of disease, epidemiology, prevention and assistive technologies. Work with incidence, prevalence and mortality data while building evidence-based explanations and evaluations of prevention, management and treatment.
Key language: homeostasis · negative feedback · non-infectious disease · incidence and prevalence · epidemiology · prevention · assistive technologies · disorders
Across the day
01 · Consolidate
Revisit the core processes, relationships and terminology across Modules 5–8, with attention to the links students need to make between content areas.
02 · Interpret
Identify variables, trends, relationships, anomalies and biological evidence in unfamiliar graphs, tables, experimental descriptions and models.
03 · Decide
Unpack directive verbs, identify the relevant syllabus knowledge and decide how much explanation, evidence, comparison or evaluation the question requires.
04 · Practise
Work through selected objective-response, short-answer and longer-response tasks that integrate course knowledge with Working Scientifically skills.
05 · Improve
Review approaches with the teacher, correct misconceptions and refine the accuracy, structure, evidence and scientific language of each response.
Practice and feedback
Students work through selected objective-response, short-answer and extended-response tasks across the day. The teacher models how to identify the biological process being tested, extract useful evidence from graphs, tables and diagrams, and match the depth of an answer to the marks available. Students compare approaches, ask questions and use live guided feedback to improve accuracy, reasoning and scientific expression. The workshop provides guided feedback and improvement opportunities rather than a separate individual marking service.
Extract trends and relationships from graphs, tables, diagrams and experimental results, then use that evidence in a defensible conclusion.
Sequence biological events clearly, use correct terminology and show the causal links that turn recalled facts into a complete explanation.
Respond to analyse, assess and evaluate questions with relevant evidence, explicit criteria and a sustained judgement rather than description alone.
Recognise when a question draws on more than one content area and bring the right concepts together without losing focus on the question.
Included with the workshop
Every student receives a subject-specific workbook containing concise Module 5–8 notes, biological process summaries, data and stimulus sets, HSC-style practice questions, response-planning frameworks, scientific-writing advice and space to annotate worked approaches. Students use it throughout the day and can return to it during their final HSC revision.
Clear summaries of the biological processes, relationships and course language students need to use accurately.
Graphs, tables, diagrams, experimental scenarios and unfamiliar evidence selected for active interpretation.
Objective-response, short-answer and longer-response tasks with attention to directive verbs and mark allocation.
Teacher modelling, live guided feedback, opportunities to ask questions and discussion of different evidence-based approaches.
Expert HSC educators
Premium take-home resources
Marking insights and exemplars
Yes. The day reconnects Heredity, Genetic Change, Infectious Disease and Non-infectious Disease and Disorders. It focuses on high-value concepts and transferable examination skills rather than attempting to reteach every syllabus dot point in one day.
Yes. Practice includes interpreting experimental methods, variables, validity, reliability, accuracy, data and conclusions. The workshop uses written and stimulus-based investigation questions; it is not advertised as a full laboratory practical day.
Yes. The September 2026 workshop uses the Biology Stage 6 Syllabus (2017), which remains the syllabus examined for the 2026 HSC. The replacement 2025 syllabus has its first HSC examination in 2028.
Year 12 students preparing for their final school assessments and the 2026 HSC examinations.
Bring a laptop or tablet if you use one for study, writing materials, water and lunch. Your workshop resources are provided.
Building, room and arrival instructions are sent by email with the ticket and again before the workshop.
Yes. Add any three workshops in one order and the $75 bundle saving is applied automatically at checkout.
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