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Hi all,
Obviously this post is for the Year 10 and Year 11 students amongst us who are preparing for VCE 2010.
I’m sure many of you have already begun your preparations for your 3/4 subjects with introductory classes this past week or two and many teachers have already heaped holiday homework upon you.
So…before you get carried [...]

Hi all,
By now, you should have finished the Unit 4 VCE Biology exam for 2009.
What did you think of the paper? What was hard? What was easy? How do you think you went?
Let me know your thoughts and comments below (please keep them clean!)…cheers

Tuesday, 29 Sep

BUNDOORA

1

9.00am-11.30am

Physical Education OR Health & Human Devt.*

Tuesday, 29 Sep

BUNDOORA

2

12.15pm-2.45pm

Food & Technology OR Biology*

Tuesday, 29 Sep

BUNDOORA

3

3.15pm-5.45pm

Business Management OREnglish*

Thursday, 1 Oct

CLAYTON

1

9.00am-11.30am

Geography OR Legal Studies

Thursday, 1 Oct

CLAYTON

2

12.15pm-2.45pm

Health & Human Devt.OR Psychology

Thursday, 1 Oct

CLAYTON

3

3.15pm-5.45pm

Biology [...]

Hi all,
By now, you should have finished the Unit 3 VCE Biology exam for 2009.
What did you think of the paper? What was hard? What was easy? How do you think you went?
Let me know your thoughts and comments below (please keep them clean!)…cheers

The good folk at Insight Publications have recently released a brand new series of VCE trial exams in time for the 2009 Unit 3 VCE mid-year exams. Insight have kindly offered a sample of each of their mid year practice exams with solutions that offer excellent tips, mark allocations and detailed assessor notations.
The VCE exams [...]

The Unit 3 VCE Biology podcast with Andrew Douch is finally here. Again I apologise for the lateness of the final edit and upload which was a result of the VCE expo and illness (hope you can forgive me! . In the podcast below you can hear Douchy talk about:
1. Some of the common [...]

CONTROLLING AND REGULATING BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAYS – Unit 3 Biology notes. By Emma Roache.
Hint – use SAC 1 for Outcome 2 as revision
Enzymes- a specific protein that acts as a catalyst to increase that rate of a particular chemical reaction in living organisms
-    enzymes are protein catalysts
-    They increase that rate of reactions between substrates without [...]

Hi all,
The next podcast interview for the VCE help radio program will be with leading biology teacher and fellow podcaster Andrew Douch, who produces some high quality biology podcasts for VCE students.
Later this week (the last week of term – woohoo) I will be recording the interview and as per usual…I need the  help of [...]

After the huge success of the first Cruzin VCE seminar program in April this year the program co-ordinators have expanded and updated the program to cater for the increased demand from students.
This special full day of seminars in the July school holidays has been organised by your local library and employ highly skilled and [...]

As part of our ongoing research we are always finding new subject specific resources including those for VCE biology.
Below is a handful of some resources that may help, each with a small critique so you know what is at each website.
VCAA website – Biology
This page takes you to the VCAA site. It will have the [...]

By Emma Roache (VCE graduate 2006)
‘We’ve created this problem. Multi-drug resistance is a man made problem. By developing as many antibiotics as we have, we’ve essentially accelerated an evolutionary process…’ (Microbiologist- Mr. Barry Kreiswirth)
Due to human societal failures the evolution of drug-resistant strains of the tubercle bacillus has occurred all around the world. Until recently, [...]