Product Design
Time allocation: 3 lessons per week
Examination Board: AQA
Syllabus & Number: GCSE Design & Technology: Product Design 4555
Course content
A practical subject area merging both Designing and Making with an emphasis on Commercial Product Design.
This requires the application of knowledge and understanding when developing ideas, planning, producing products and evaluating them with a focus on Product development from concept to customer. Most commercial products require some form of labelling, packaging or instructions and consequently an element of graphic design may be needed for the product to be complete, although this is not essential. In your own designing you will have to take into account how commercial products are designed and manufactured.
Year 10 building on and developing the core skills work from Key Stage 3.
Year 11 – Controlled Assessment task (coursework) and preparation for written exam.
Assessment Unit 1 (45551) Written paper - 2 hours – 120 marks – 40%
Candidates answer all questions in two sections. Pre-release material issued.
Unit 2 (45552) Controlled Assessment – Approximately 45 hours – 90 marks – 60%
Consists of a single design and make activity selected from a range of board set tasks undertaken in normal school time.
Course Skills
Year 10 - Candidates will build upon the work from Key Stage 3 in more detail. This will include the consideration of the influences of past and present design prototypes using CAD/CAM and hand skills. Other areas of design work will be covered to suit the needs of the individual students wherever possible. There will also be the opportunity to sit an exam and do coursework.
Year 11 – Candidates will be doing their 45 hour controlled assessment task and exam preparation. The GCSE exam consists of three areas of study:
1. Materials and Components
2. Design and Market Influences
3. Processes and Manufacture
There will be questions relating to these in the final written exam and some evidence of them will be needed in the controlled assessment task.
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Careers, Further and Higher Education: This GCSE course lays an appropriate foundation for further study of Design Technology at AS and A2 level in Product Design or related subjects such as VCE Manufacturing.
Possible Careers: Graphic Design Advertising Engineering
Interior Design Web Design Architecture
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