Year 12 Virtual Seminars

Year 12 Virtual Seminars

Our Year 12 Virtual Seminars are specialty revision programs held online via Zoom in the Terms 1, 2 and 3 school holidays for Biology and Chemistry.

Our Virtual Seminars are separate from our in-person revision seminars and have a special focus on exam-specific content led by one of our expert teachers. Each two-hour topic is accompanied by exclusive revision notes.

These sessions are open to students of all abilities and also offer an alternative format for rural and remote students who are unable to travel to attend our in-person seminars.

Get in quick! These sessions book out fast.

*Zoom app required for iOS & Android devices or via your preferred browser for PC/Laptop – https://zoom.us/download
Once booked, ATC staff will send your unique link invitation before your session commences.

Please note each booking requires a commitment to all sessions.

4 day course

Year 12 Psychology Virtual Seminars Term 2

with Emma Beukema

Available

Course details

Session A - Science Inquiry Skills

This session will review the Science Inquiry Skills (SIS) including:
· The biopsychosocial model
· Investigation designs
· Data collection methods
· Data analysis
· Validity and reliability
· Ethical principles
· Science as a human endeavour.
How to answer exam-standard SIS and SHE questions will also be covered.

Session B - Social Influence (part 1)

This session will review the following aspects of the Social Influence topic:
Obedience
Conformity
The Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments
Ethnocentric bias
Self-presentation and social media

Session C - Social Influence (part 2)

This session will review the following aspects of the Social Influence topic:
Attitude formation and change
Bidirectional relationship between attitudes and behaviour
Prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination
Measuring attitudes

Session D - Psychology of Learning

This session will review the following aspects of the Psychology of Learning topic:
Classical conditioning
Phobias and systematic desensitisation
Operant conditioning
Behaviour modification
Observational learning

$280.00
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5 day course

Year 12 Mathematical Methods Virtual Seminars Term 2

with Jonathan Hage

Available

Course details

Session A – Introductory differential calculus

  • Derivatives from first principles
  • Rules of differentiation including chain rule, product rule and quotient rule
  • Deriving local maxima and minima
  • Increasing and decreasing functions
  • Graphing of functions  y =xn

Session B – Derivatives of exponential and logarithmic functions

  • Slopes of tangents of the exponential and logarithmic functions
  • Local maxima and minima
  • Application of exponential and logarithmic functions including growth and decay, surge and logistic functions
  • Graphing of y = ln x and y = ex

Session C - Derivatives of Trigonometric Functions

  • Derivatives of trigonometric functions
  • Kinematics: displacement, velocity, acceleration
  • Application of trigonometric functions, including tidal heights and temperature changes
  • Graphing of and sin x and cos x.

Session D - The Second Derivative

  • Relationship between the 1st and 2nd derivatives
  • Optimisation
  • Points of inflection.

Session E – Integration and statistics

Integration (integral calculus):

  • Area under a curve
  • Problem-solving by integration

Statistics:

  • Measuring centre and spread of data
  • Discrete random variables – the Bernoulli and Binomial distribution
  • Continuous random variables – normal distribution
$350.00
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5 day course

Year 12 Chemistry Virtual Seminars Term 2

with Dr. Hamish McTernan

Available

Course details

Session A – Monitoring the environment 1

  • Greenhouse effect
  • Acid rain
  • Photochemical smog
  • Revision of SACE Stage 1 Chemistry (assumed knowledge).

Session B – Monitoring the environment 2

  • Volumetric analysis
  • Chromatography
  • Atomic spectroscopy.

Session C – Managing chemical processes

  • Rates of reactions
  • Equilibrium and yield
  • Optimising production.

Session D – Organic and biological chemistry 1

  • Alcohols
  • Aldehydes and ketones
  • Carbohydrates
  • Carboxylic acids
  • Amines.

Session E – Organic and biological chemistry 2

  • Esters
  • Amides
  • Triglycerides
  • Proteins
  • Energy (managing resources).
$350.00
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Year 12 Biology Virtual Seminars Term 2

with Anastasia Toumpas

Available

Course details

Session A – DNA and proteins 1

  • Chromosomes, chromatids and genes
  • Roles of DNA, mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, miRNA
  • Transcription including exons, introns and splicing
  • DNA replication
  • Translation at ribosomes
  • Structure and function of proteins.

Session B - DNA and Proteins 2

  • Enzymes
  • Gene expression
  • Mutations
  • Biotechnology
  • DNA sequencing, PCR, transgenesis, DNA profiling.

Session C – Cells as the basis of life 1

  • Cell theory
  • Two types of cells
  • Energy in cells (including equations and ADP/ATP)
  • Movement through cell membranes
  • Writing practical reports.

Session D - Cells as the basis of life 2

  • Cell metabolism
  • Binary fission and mitosis
  • Meiotic cell division
  • Culturing cells
  • Science as a human endeavour.

Session E - Homeostasis

  • Homeostasis tolerance limits
  • Stimulus response model
  • Positive and negative feedback
  • The nervous system
  • Types of neurones, synapses and neurotransmitters
  • The reflex arc as a homeostatic mechanism.
$350.00
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