Design and Technology

Key Topics for Revision

Questions will be set assessing knowledge of CORE TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES and SPECIALIST TECHNICAL PRINCIPLES.

Topics include:

• Sustainability including renewable and non-renewable energy sources, The Six Rs, Sustainable sources of materials

• Composite materials

• Mechanisms including gears, bell-crank linkages; First Order, Second Order and Third Order levers

• Types of motion including linear, reciprocating, rotary and oscillating

• The origin of materials (woods come from ….., Paper and boards come from ….)

• Business models including cooperatives, crowd funding, fair trade, virtual marketing, and planned obsolescence

• Material properties including strength, toughness and hardness

• PICs (Programmable Integrated Circuits) or ‘programmable micro controllers’, their uses and advantages, circuit components and symbols

• Aesthetics

• Ergonomics

• Anthropometrics

Length of Exam 1 Hour 15 Minutes

• Surface finishes – types of, reasons for, advantages of these e.g. varnishes, lamination, wax, adonising

• Changing the material properties to make them more suitable and fit for purpose (one of: seasoning timber, waterproofing paper and card or other techniques of your choice through revision)

• Commercial manufacturing of timbers, papers and boards

Resources such as Seneca, revision guides and course text books along with class notes are good resources to help pupils prepare for these exams

Please note that D&T is a five year course and many of these have been covered (in class or as homework) in previous years

Key Topics for Revision

The examination will consist of answering a selection of questions from an actual Edexcel Drama Component 2 examination. This will include: all questions from Section A, that relate to acting or directing an actor; playing a role within our set text ‘An Inspector Calls’; and all questions from Section B which are focussed on Live Theatre Evaluation. You will be analysing and evaluating ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’.

To achieve well you will need to know the basics of the text of ‘An Inspector Calls’ and be able to apply your knowledge of acting and directing skills to one key extract/the whole play, using the technical language of acting within your answers. An extract will be provided from the play for you, in the exam. You will also

Length of Exam 1 Hour need to be able to analyse and evaluate key moments from ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’, including acting and a design element. You may take 500 words of notes on this production, into the exam with you.

Key Topics for Revision:

• Acting and Design: technical vocabulary.

• ‘An Inspector Calls’: Key characters, plot, themes and message.

• Live Theatre Production: Key moments of acting and design.

• Command words (and how to apply them): describe, analyse, and evaluate.

Revision resources will be published on our Google Classroom.