CCEA GCSE Food and Nutrition: Unit 2 practical food and nutrition overview
An overview of Unit 2 Practical Food and Nutrition, the CCEA GCSE controlled assessment worth 50 percent, covering the food investigation and food preparation tasks, the four stages of research, planning, making and evaluating, and how the written Unit 1 content feeds into it.
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Unit 2 of CCEA GCSE Home Economics: Food and Nutrition is the practical controlled assessment, worth 50 percent of the GCSE. It is internally assessed coursework rather than a written exam, and it is where the knowledge from Unit 1 is applied to real food investigation and preparation. This page gives a concise overview and links to the focused answer page.
What Unit 2 covers
Unit 2 is a set task that includes a food investigation and food preparation, marked across four stages: research and analysis, planning, making, and evaluation. See the focused page, Unit 2 practical controlled assessment overview, for the detail.
How it is assessed
The controlled assessment is marked by your teacher and moderated by CCEA. Marks reward the whole process: investigating and analysing the task, planning and justifying suitable dishes and safe working, carrying out the practical with a range of skills while working safely and hygienically, and evaluating the results with sensory and nutritional reasoning. It is worth 50 percent of the GCSE, the same as the Unit 1 written paper.
How Unit 1 feeds in
The practical is where the taught content is used:
- Food and nutrition and diet and health through life justify dish choices and modifications for a group or purpose.
- The science of food explains the working properties of ingredients and underpins safe, hygienic working.
- Being an effective consumer guides choosing suitable, good-value and sustainable ingredients.
How to prepare
Practise a wide range of practical skills, rehearse safe, hygienic and timed working, and learn to justify choices with nutrition and evaluate dishes with sensory testing. Use the Unit 1 module overviews and answer pages to build the knowledge you will apply, then return here to see how it all comes together in the practical task.