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Contextual challenges for summer 2025 certification

3 June 2024

Contextual challenges for GCSE Design and Technology, Non-Examined Assessment for summer 2025 submissions has been released on 1 June 2024 and can be accessed from the teaching and learning materials section of the qualification page. 

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Summer 2024 Contextual challenges

Below document includes the contextual challenges for summer 2025 certification. In the document, there are 3 themes. Each theme has 2 contextual challenges. Learners must read through these and select one of the 6 contextual challenges to respond to, in their NEA project.

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Unpacking the contextual challenges 

The pack below is intended to provide guidance when first introducing the contextual challenges to students and support you in providing the guidance required to stimulate students thinking. 

Please note: The challenges used in this pack are the ones which were released in 2023, NOT the live challenges due to be submitted in May 2025. 

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