How to Approach Your Technology Coursework

This instructable and the attached pdf file show in a simple step by step approach how to achieve good results in the UK GCSE Technology exam. It is specifically aimed at product design but applies to all technology exams.

The aim of this hand book is to guide you through the process of designing and making in a way that will ensure you meet all of the requirements of the exam board.

This is a step by step approach and none of the steps should be missed out.

Success is a product of the effort you put in. The majority of students fail because they:

Miss out sections of the project
Do not meet the required deadlines
Produce poor quality, rushed or incomplete work.
Waste time in class when they should be working
Fail to complete work at home for Homework or during holidays.

Factors leading to higher grades include

Projects that stretch the candidate in terms of overall difficulty (concept, skills, techniques)

The design development of the product is clearly shown and reasons arc given for decisions made

Clear, dimensioned views, using CAD, are offered to aid manufacture

Less time is spent on the folder than the making

Quality of manufacture and finish is appropriate and of high quality

Awareness of CAM is shown in parts of the project

CAM is used to aid manufacture, if appropriate

Consideration is given to commercial market needs and a system is suggested to produce the product in numbers.

Projects are reviewed and tested throughout the making process (project diary)

The attached pdf file contains a booklet written for our students to guide and help them succeed.