Accounting and Finance Year 11 ATAR

The following content identified in italics has been revised in the syllabus:

Unit 2

• using an established chart of accounts and the perpetual inventory system, apply double entry principles using accounting software such as Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) or QuickBooks® to electronically record financial data and produce financial reports

Accounting and Finance Year 12 General

The following content identified in italics has been revised in the syllabus:

Unit 4

• using an established chart of accounts and the perpetual inventory system, apply double entry principles using accounting software such as Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) or QuickBooks® to electronically record financial data and produce financial reports

Business Management and EnterpriseYear 12 ATAR

Examination Design Brief

The following statement from the supporting information in Section Two of the Examination deign brief has been removed:

‘The candidate is required to answer in the form of a report or an essay.’

Economics Year 12 ATAR

The following content dot points in the syllabus have been revised to either:

• remove the verb that commenced the dot point
• change a word within a dot point. These changes are shown in italics :

Unit 3

• the gains from specialisation and trade i.e. the theories of absolute and comparative advantage, using the demand and supply model, the production possibility frontier model and/or the concept of opportunity cost
• different forms of protection
• the operation of tariffs and subsidies as forms of protection and their effects on trade and market efficiency
• structural and cyclical reasons for Australia’s current account outcome
• differing views as to the significance of Australia’s current account outcome
• the determination of, and movements in, the exchange rate (i.e. an appreciation and a depreciation of the exchange rate) under a freely floating system using the demand and supply model
• the impact of changes in the factors that affect the exchange rate using the demand and supply model

Unit 4

• the impact of changes in aggregate expenditure on the equilibrium level of income/output using the AE model
• macroeconomic equilibrium using the AD/AS model
• the impact of changes in aggregate demand and aggregate supply on the equilibrium level of income/output using the AD/AS model

Examination Design Brief

The following information in the syllabus has been included:

Section Three

Extended answer

Part A: Unit 3

20% of the total examination
One question from a choice of two
Suggested working time: 40 minutes

Part B: Unit 4

20% of the total examination
One question from a choice of two
Suggested working time: 40 minutes

This replaces:

40% of the total examination
Two questions from a choice of four
Suggested working time: 80 minutes

Politics and Law

Year 12 ATAR

The following content dot points are revised in the syllabus with either:

• new content or changed content in italics
• removal of content from a dot point

Unit 3

Essential to the understanding of political and legal power is the knowledge of:

• responsible government
• representative government
• separation of powers
• division of powers
• Westminster conventions.

• functions of the Commonwealth Parliament in theory and in practice, including Sections 7, 24, 51, 53

• at least one reform proposal to change the Commonwealth Constitution (Australia), such as
  • Commonwealth Constitution (Australia) Section 44 (i), (ii) and (iii)

Unit 4

Essential to the understanding of accountability and rights are the practices of governance, including:

• participation
• the rule of law
• human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural
• open government
• natural justice.
• the extent of the accountability of the Governor-General
• the accountability of the courts within the Australian legal system
• the ways human rights are protected in Australia, including in the Constitution, common law, statutory law, and charter of rights, such as the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Victoria), the Human Rights Act 2004 (Australian Capital Territory) and the Human Rights Act 2019 (Queensland)

Mathematics Methods Year 12 ATAR

• The glossary definition for Confidence Intervals has been revised.

Mathematics Application Year 12 ATAR

• The glossary section for Unit 4.3 contains a new inclusion, Dummy link.

Earth and environmental science

Year 12 ATAR

The following content identified in italics has been revised:

Unit 3 - Science Inquiry Skills

• identify and classify metamorphic rocks based on texture and mineralogy (including slate, phyllite, schist, gneiss, marble, quartzite, amphibolite) from physical samples, diagrams and photographs
• Identify the protolith of metamorphic rocks based on the rock cycle, including quartzite from sandstone, marble from limestone and amphibolite from basalt and dolerite.

Unit 3 – Science Understanding

• location of non-renewable mineral and energy resources, including fossil fuels, iron ore, nickel and gold, is related to their geological setting. These resources form through rock cycle processes, including sedimentary, magmatic, metamorphic and hydrothermal processes

Physics

Year 12 ATAR

The following content dot points in the syllabus have been revised to now read as shown below. Also included below is a new dot point related to ‘The total energy of a moving object…’.

Unit 4 – Science Understanding

Wave particle duality and the quantum theory

• a wave model explains a wide range of light-related phenomena, including reflection, refraction, dispersion, diffraction and interference, such as in Young’s double-slit experiment. A transverse wave model is required to explain polarisation

• on the atomic level, electromagnetic radiation is emitted or absorbed in discrete packets called photons. The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency. The constant of proportionality, Planck’s constant, can be determined experimentally using the photoelectric effect and the threshold voltage of coloured LEDs

  This includes applying the relationships

  

• black body radiation and the photoelectric effect are explained using the concept of light quanta
• the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom integrates light quanta and atomic energy states to explain the specific wavelengths in the hydrogen spectrum and in the spectra of other simple atoms; this model enables line spectra to be correlated with atomic energy-level diagrams and explains the phenomenon of fluorescence and phosphorescence
• on the atomic level, energy and matter exhibit the characteristics of both waves and particles. Young’s double slit experiment is explained with a wave model but produces the same interference and diffraction patterns when one photon at a time or one electron at a time are passed through the slits

  This includes applying the relationship

  

Special relativity

• the concept of mass-energy equivalence emerged from the special theory of relativity and explains the source of the energy produced in nuclear reactions. The mass of an object is constant and independent of its motion

  This includes applying the relationship

• The total energy of a moving object is the sum of the energy due to its mass at rest and kinetic energy

  This includes applying the relationships

  

The Standard Model

• the Big Bang theory explains the expansion of space, which is measured by redshift and is supported by Hubble’s law

  This includes applying the relationship

  

• high-energy particle accelerators use electric and magnetic fields to accelerate particles

  This includes deriving, understanding and applying the relationship

  

• mass-energy equivalence and the motion of high energy particles in accelerators can be used to test theories of particle physics, including the Standard Model
• baryons and mesons are hadrons, which are composite particles made up of quarks
• the Standard Model is based on the premise that all matter in the universe is made up from elementary matter particles called quarks and leptons and their corresponding antiparticles. Fundamental particles interact via the four fundamental forces
• lepton number, baryon number and electric charge are quantities that are conserved in all interactions between particles; these conservation laws can be used to support or invalidate proposed reactions

Applied Information Technology

Year 12 ATAR

The following content dot points in the syllabus has been revised. Revisions include changes in language of dot point stems and removal of some sub dot points:

Unit 3

• use of the publishing features for a chosen digital medium
  • colour profiles
  • layers
  • frames
  • typography
  • print/display options
• considerations for a digital product and/or digital solution
  • structure
  • usability
  • accessibility
  • user experience (UX)
  • user interface (UI)
  • the rights and responsibilities of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Australia) in regards to digital products

Unit 4

• types of backup techniques and archiving of data
  • full
  • differential
  • incremental
• types and characteristics of communication protocols, including:
  • transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP)
  • hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
  • hypertext transfer protocol over secure socket layer (HTTPS)

Applied Information Technology

Year 11 ATAR

The following content dot points in the syllabus contain revisions where sub dot points considered obsolete or confusing have been removed:

Unit 1

• compositional rules
  • reading gravity
  • rule of thirds
  • grid and alignment
• develop and apply detailed annotations for digital designs relevant to a design brief demonstrating the following considerations:
  • elements of design and the principles of design
  • use of appropriate typography
  • visual composition
  • rule of thirds
  • grid and alignment

Unit 2

• features of animation software
  • frame by frame
  • tweens
  • buttons

Applied Information Technology

Year 12 General

The following content dot points in the syllabus contain revisions where sub dot points considered obsolete or confusing have been removed or been edited (see italics):

Unit 4

• system utility tools and accessories for the efficient operation and maintenance of data, including:
  • disk clean-up tools
  • deletion of temporary files/internet cache
  • disk fragmentation
  • anti-malware, anti-virus, spam filter, spyware
• features of animation software
  • frame by frame
  • tweens
  • buttons

Applied Information Technology

Year 11 General

The following content dot points in the syllabus contain revisions where dot point content has been removed or been edited (see italics):

Unit 1

• types of collaborative software tools

Unit 2

• characteristics of search engines

• components of a personal wireless network, including:
  • network interface card (NIC)
  • router
  • access point
• purpose of the Spam Act 2003, (Australia) including appropriate use

Children Family and Community

Year 12 ATAR

The following content in the syllabus has been removed:

Unit 4

• impact of the United Nations 2000–2015 Millennium Development Goals
  • eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
  • achieving universal primary education
  • promoting gender equality and empowering women
  • reducing child mortality rates
  • improving maternal health
  • combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  • ensuring environmental sustainability
  • developing a global partnership for development

New content

Unit 4

• aim and impact of the following selected United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
  • good health andwellbeing
  • quality education
  • decent work and economic growth
  • reduced inequality
  • sustainable cities and communities
  • partnerships to achieve the goal