Section III
Two minutes a question, on first-year science wrapped in stimulus you have never seen. It counts double at most schools, and the information you need is almost always printed in front of you.
The four meta-skills that outperform content revision, and the concepts that actually recur, with the depth each is tested to.
The map →Then drill17 stimuli across chemistry, biology and physics. Every wrong answer is explained, and each question names the move that carries to the next one.
55 questions →Allocation
Roughly 40% biology, 40% chemistry and 20% physics, though ACER does not publish this and it moves between sittings.
Chemistry first
The most learnable forty per cent. Acid–base, equilibrium and organic pattern-recognition come up relentlessly and behave predictably.
Physics second
A fifth of the section, and it terrifies half the cohort. If you have never studied it, avoiding it is the expensive choice: it is the smallest and most formulaic body of content in the exam, and a weekend on kinematics, energy, circuits and half-life closes most of the gap.
Biology by questions
Broader and shallower, which makes it awkward to revise and fairly easy to reason through. Practice questions teach it faster than notes.