Design and Technology Product Design offers candidates the opportunity to acquire and broaden their knowledge and understanding of the world of designing and making and to demonstrate their own technological capabilities through the design and making of quality outcomes in a wide variety of materials and construction techniques including modelling, working prototypes and CAD CAM. Students will also develop an appreciation of the complex relations between design materials, manufacture and marketing. All candidates should be able to apply thier knowledge and understanding to: Designing - design a product to a specification. Making - use materials, components, processes and techniques and equipment to produce quality products to a specification.
Name: Product Design AS/A Level (AQA) Qualification title: Product Design AS/A Level (AQA) Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment AS Product Design has two units: Unit 1: Students will investigate and work with a variety of resistant materials to gain a greater understanding of the properties, cost and availability which influence the choice of materials in design situations. Written Paper: 50% of the total AS marks, 2 hours (25% of the total A Level marks), 80 marks Unit 2: Students develop a wider understanding of the designed world. It will include an appreciation of line, shape, form, proportion, colour, movement and texture within a critical awareness of aesthetics. It will also include appraisals of manufactured goods. Students will create outcomes which display originality and excellence. Coursework (written or electronic): 50% of total AS marks, approx. 50 hours (25% of total A Level marks), 80 marks Either project work and/or a portfolio of coursework which will contain aspects of industrial and commercial practice. A2 Product Design has two units: Unit 3: Students will study a broad range of manufacturing systems used to make and finish materials used in the production of commercial products. Written Paper: (25% of the total A Level marks) 2 hours This paper is based primarily on Design and Manufacture and consists of two sections requiring 3 questions to be answered from a possible 6: Section 1 – candidates are required to answer one question from each section and also a final question from either section Section 2 – This written paper will include sufficient synoptic assessment to test the candidate’s understanding of the connections between the different elements of the subject and their holistic understanding of the subject. Three further units could be completed to form a full A Level. Unit 4: Is a design and make unit where the knowledge and experience gained at AS are applied to a design and manufacture task of the candidate’s own choice. The student’s outcome will display excellence in production and originality of design. Coursework (written or electronic): (25% of the total marks) approx 60 hours, 85 marks Design folder manufacture outcome. Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20151118 11:45:47 Updated 20151118 11:47:20
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