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Design, Technology and Engineering Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0
For teaching in 2024. Accredited in November 2018 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2020. 

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Subject changes

Summary of subject changes for 2022

Assessment Type 1: Specialised Skills Tasks

Reword:

  • 'This task should be completed in multimodal form to a maximum of 3 minutes'.

to read:

  • 'The combined evidence for the specialised skills task should be a maximum of 500 words if written, a maximum of 3 minutes if oral, or the equivalent in multimodal form'.

Assessment Type 2: Design Process and Solution

Part 1: Design development changes to word and time limits

  • 10-credit subject change '1000' words to '1250' words; change '6 minutes' to '7 1/2 minutes'.
  • 20-credit subject change '2000' words to '2500' words; change '12 minutes' to '15 minutes'.