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Course assessment: The project

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How is the Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology project structured, and how do you gain marks across its three stages?

The course assessment project (60 marks): investigating a current food issue relevant to the course through three stages - project proposal, research, and analysis and evaluation; how the project is marked externally by SQA; and the research, analysis and evaluation skills it assesses, alongside the 50-mark question paper that completes the 110-mark course assessment.
An SQA Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology answer on the course assessment project, covering its three stages (project proposal, research, and analysis and evaluation), how it is marked externally by SQA out of 60 marks alongside the 50-mark question paper, and the research, analysis and evaluation skills it assesses.
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