Design and Technology (Product Design)

Entry Requirements

Candidates wishing to study Design and Technology as a Sixth Form subject will preferably have studied and passed (grade 6 or equivalent point score) a GCSE course in Resistant Materials or Product Design. From their study, it will be assumed that candidates will have an elementary knowledge of the majority of the following: • Designing and Making skills needed to realise products. • Materials — common forms of paper/card, modelling materials, fibres and fabrics, plastics, woods, metals, lightweight materials, and composites. • Components and processes as used in products. • System and control functions as applied to the planning and manufacture of products, or as components within products. • Products and their applications. • Health and safety issues and a range of experience drawn from the wider study of graphical, textile and material-based products.