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Hello all,

Which option topics are covered in HSC Biology in Focus? Also, what option topic do you recommend?

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You're joking right? My school uses Biology in Focus for the HSC. How would they cover options? Maybe they would do it without a textbook... that would actually be more interesting. The teachers would have to think for themselves!
 
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just dont do biotechnology :)

i didnt do it so i cant recommend it but the genetics topic sounds so interesting. ive just had a brief look at it.
 

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Yeah, the genetics option appeals to me too. Communication also looks good, that would be my second choice. :)

Maybe my school will cover the option topic through the Surfing books, given that Biology in Focus doesn't cover the option topics. That would be fine with me: the Surfing books are quite interesting.
 
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Yeah, the genetics option appeals to me too. Communication also looks good, that would be my second choice. :)

Maybe my school will cover the option topic through the Surfing books, given that Biology in Focus doesn't cover the option topics. That would be fine with me: the Surfing books are quite interesting.
do you get to choose or is everyone doing genetics?
 

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do you get to choose or is everyone doing genetics?
I think we'll probably have a vote. I do Year 12 Bio in 2011, so I have no idea what option I'll do yet. We'll probably discuss it as a class in Term 4, 2010. I do get to choose what option I do, though. Our school lets us do an option different to the rest of the class if necessary, and you receive teacher support too.
 

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wow lucky! we had no choice in the matter. biotech it was :(
There were two HSC biology classes at my school in 2009. I think they did 'Communication' in one class and 'Genetics: the Code Broken?' in the other. I'm quite sure neither did Biotech.

At least even if you have to do a bad option, the core is still interesting. Especially 'The Search for Better Health' module, in my opinion.
 
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We had 2 classes as well and we both did biotech.
Yeah, the core topics are really good in year 12 :)
 

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