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GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
Please use the link below to access the contextual challenges document released on the 1 June 2019. These challenges are for the current year 11 learners, certificating in Summer 2020.
AS Level Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
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Current training events for GCSE D&T
GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
AS Level Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
AS Level Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
Please use the link below to access the contextual challenges document released on the 1 June 2019. These challenges are for the current year 12 learners, certificating in Summer 2020.
Subject advisor online support events
Current training events for GCSE D&T
GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
AS Level Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
Subject advisor online support events
Subject advisor online support events
Access free online support sessions from your Subject Advisor and download resources and recordings from the past sessions. There are sessions available to register for now!
Current training events for GCSE D&T
GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
AS Level Design and Technology Contextual challenges for Summer 2020 submissions
Subject advisor online support events
Current training events for GCSE D&T
Current training events for GCSE D&T
There are a mixture of 'new to Edexcel' and 'Coursework marking training' available to book on to for GCSE Design and Technology qualification.
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Grade boundaries can only be set accurately following on from a live exam series, as the national data is used. We cannot judge precisely how difficult students will find a paper, compared to previous papers. Therefore, the first set of grade boundaries will be available in Summer 2019 for GCSE and A level qualifications.
There is a useful reading on Ofqual blog about this.
The A level topic guide has been put together for the new A level Design and Technology qualification, to cover the content that is not covered in the legacy A level Design and Technology student books.
Access the topic guide from the link below.
The answers for the exam style questions in the GCSE (9-1) D&T student book are available online from the publishing site. They can be accessed from the support materials section of GCSE(9-1) D&T resources. Please see the link below for this location.
No. The linear full A level NEA does not have contextual challenges. Context is set by the learner, working with a client and design possibilities identified accordingly.
Only the new GCSE D&T NEA and AS Level D&T NEA are initiated with a contextual challenge set by Pearson on the 1 June, a year before certification.
You can access these from below.
There are final resit opportunities for all AS and A2 level Design and Technology units in summer 2019. This will be the final resit opportunities for this qualification. All new registrations must be on the new linear A level Design and Technology or AS Level Design and Technology.
