Essential Insight was created to best prepare students ready for all assessments and exams during Year 11 and 12 ATAR ACF whilst simultaneously supporting student engagement and course completion.
Essential Insight features:
Content organized into easy to use categories.
Categories reflect exam content.
Content organized using SCSA verbs and question keywords.
Textbook alignment with exam practice, allowing students to practice exam questions throughout the course, while mastering each topic.
Differentiated topic organization, allowing teachers maximum flexibility for course delivery/ sequence preference.
Exam tips included throughout book.
Student friendly language.
The textbooks have deliberately been written succinctly to assist with removing literacy barriers for students. The succinct nature of these textbooks should also allow students to spend less time using the lower order skill of taking notes and more time applying higher order application skills at exam level.
Several research tasks.
These research tasks allow students to develop research skills and the ability to interpret paragraphs of online information and apply relevant skills.
Content broken down into its simplest form to assist student accessibility.
Confidence that this resource contains all content and skills needed to achieve top ATAR results
Never-before seen student support resources to ensure mastery and success with all theory and practical requirements.
Alignment with online learning and teaching resources.
Affordable price and free resources.
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Breakdown of each textbook in the series
Accounting and Finance has components which are theoretically focussed, and others which are primarily practically focussed with some supporting theory. The table indicates what each textbook includes and how they may be used.
Essential Insight Course Guide
This textbook includes:
Theory for the theory-focused chapters of the course.
Student review questions for the theory focused chapters to assist student mastery of theory and useful for revision prior to assessments.
Key summary information from the practically focused chapters.
Note: Elaborated step-by-step explanation of practical chapters with practical review questions are included in the Practical Guide.
This textbook is useful for:
Student learning and teaching of theory chapters with practice questions.
Revising both theory and practical chapters when completing practice questions or revising prior to assessments.
Note: This textbook is similar in nature to a revision guide for the entire course, but it is also adequate for the learning and teaching of the theory chapters.
Essential Insight Practical Guide
This textbook includes:
All practical and theory for practical-focused chapters.
Step-by-step worked examples and practice questions to scaffold students from initial concept attainment to exam level.
Note: Chapters which are primarily theory-focused are included in the Course Guide.
This textbook is useful for:
Student learning and teaching of practical content‑adjacent to relevant theory.
Student practice of practical chapters.
Essential Insight Exam Guide
This textbook includes:
SCSA Year 12 exams categorised to match the chapters of the course and practical guides.
This textbook is useful for:
Student practice of exam questions at the end of all chapters of the textbook and prior to assessments.