WJEC GCSE Design and Technology Unit 2 design and make task (NEA) overview quiz quiz

A practical design and make task (the NEA)

A written theory exam

A multiple-choice test

An oral presentation only

10 percent

25 percent

50 percent

100 percent

Marked entirely by computer

Not marked at all

Marked only by the student

Internally assessed and externally moderated

The exact product to make

A contextual challenge

A finished prototype

The mark scheme answers

Manufacture, investigate, evaluate, design

Evaluate, manufacture, design, investigate

Investigate, develop ideas, manufacture, evaluate

Design, evaluate, investigate, manufacture

Doing each step once in a straight line

Only making, never designing

Copying an existing product

Repeatedly developing, testing and refining ideas

It wastes time deliberately

It finds problems early when they are cheap to fix

It is only done at the very end

It replaces the need to make anything

A measurable specification

The final evaluation

A sales receipt

Nothing, you just start making

Only one idea taken straight to manufacture

A genuine range of ideas, then developing the best

Copying a classmate's idea

No ideas, just making

As a concise design portfolio plus the made prototype

As a single photograph

As a written exam paper

As an audio recording only

Only the price of the materials

Only how fast it was made

Only the colour chosen

The whole process, including investigation, making and evaluation

It has nothing to do with Unit 1

It applies the designing and technical principles studied for Unit 1

It replaces Unit 1 entirely

It only uses maths from Unit 1