Your A Level studies cover four main topics, and you’ll study two of these each year. In ‘Materials, components and application’ - you’ll look at materials, production processes and the impact of cost and design. In ‘Learning through designing and making’ you’ll produce some coursework using your own design with a range of materials and media. In the second year you’ll get to grips with ‘Design and manufacture’ - helping you to appreciate the relationship between design and technology, or form and function. ‘Design and making in practice’ is the practical, coursework part. You’ll make an object and record the processes that you went through. The course has been designed to encourage pupils to take a broad view of design and technology, to develop their capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relations between design, materials, manufacture and marketing. Time will be split between the workshop completing practical activities and in the classroom covering the theory aspect of the course.
Name: A-Level Product Design (3D) Qualification title: GCE A Level Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment In the first year you’ll have two assessments. A two hour written paper accounts for 25% of your total marks. The coursework and your design portfolio account for another 25% of your marks. Year two is the same. A two hour written paper accounts for 25% of your marks and the coursework and your design portfolio account for the final 25% of your A Level marks. Awarding AQA Created 20150929 11:47:00 Updated 20151113 10:50:39
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Atherton Community School
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Atherton
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