[RhysHamer]

Hey guys

I'm sitting this exam (the Product Design option) on Wednesday afternoon and I was wondering if anyone else is?

I'm sitting the WJEC exam, in the welsh language.

I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how/what to revise?
How to structure answers?
and general support for the exam.

As things stand I don't feel confident at all with it, I don't remember any of the answers or how to structure my answers.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Rhys

[Jrobertson]

Yeah I am although I'm doing it in English, how are you revising for it because I don't have a book to look from so I am just looking through papers and notes of what I did in class

[RhysHamer]

(Original post by Jrobertson)
Yeah I am although I'm doing it in English, how are you revising for it because I don't have a book to look from so I am just looking through papers and notes of what I did in class

Well we did nothing at all in class, so I don't have much to learn from. I'm currently at panic stations since I can't remember any of the DT1 work either. I haven't prepared very well at all.

Have you found anything online to help?

What are you actually revising? I don't know what to revise if I'm honest

[Jrobertson]

(Original post by RhysHamer)
Well we did nothing at all in class, so I don't have much to learn from. I'm currently at panic stations since I can't remember any of the DT1 work either. I haven't prepared very well at all.

Have you found anything online to help?

What are you actually revising? I don't know what to revise if I'm honest

Do we have to know stuff from DT1? I'm going through my notes, in the specification for stuff we need to kno it breaks it down to

Human responsibility - like the 5 R's, sustainability, human values

Marketing and public interaction - innovation, research, trends, market push tech pull

Making - materials and components a bit GCSE kinda stuff

Industrial and commercial practise - stages of production

Process - machining, CAM CAD

But don't get worried it looks more complicated that it actually is! Some people aren't even revising for this because it's like kind of a common sense exam with a bit of your own knowledge of definitions and essay writing.

When I get really bored of writing notes I go on stumble upon and look up some products I can use to talk about having some good examples is key

Hope this helps

[RhysHamer]

Well I did systems and control GCSE so I don't have a huge knowledge of materials.

There are some things that pop up from DT1 I think, nothing major.

Would you say it's wise to focus on revising what you've said there?

[Jrobertson]

With materials I guess it's about is it appropriate and what characteristics they do.

Yeah I think so that's what I'm revising

[RhysHamer]

I don't have notes on steps of production or much on prosesses really...

Where do you get your notes from?

[Jackamus]

Good luck all

[Bhayat2]

Describe the difference between an open loop and a closed loop control system.? anyone know the answer?

[JJMPSP]

(Original post by Bhayat2)
Describe the difference between an open loop and a closed loop control system.? anyone know the answer?

An open loop control system is something that you can get feedback from, a closed loop is the opposite (I think).

An example of a control system is a garden sprinkler water system. If there was some sort of sensor (a moisture sensor maybe?) in the soil of the garden, this system would be a closed loop system, as feedback is received from the result.

I think this is what it is anyway. I'll google around now just to make sure.

Edit:
Just found this:
http://www.technologystudent.com/elec1/consys2.htm

Seems legit

[JJMPSP]

I'm gonna fail this terribly, can't even sleep!

[RhysHamer]

I am literally clueless for the exam, 4 hour cramming session today I think

[tynftw]

There isn't a huge amount of material for this exam, there's like two past papers because they changed it a lot. I'm just cramming in some last minute look at old mark schemes


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[RhysHamer]

Well I'm either the luckiest person alive or that was a really easy paper xD


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[RhysHamer]

How did it go for you guys?


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[JJMPSP]

Not good.
I left the exam thinking I did okay, then my friend asked me: "which two questions did you do for Section C?". I froze for a second, then realised that I'd only done one question! 26 marks gone already. I'm pretty fuming about this, but whatever It's only DT afterall, and that was my last exam on the bright side

[RhysHamer]

Well as long as you've done okay in the other sections then you should still be near a C I suppose.

The grade boundaries were quite low last year I think...


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[Zoe0288]

sorry about this but what did you guys do for your cousework? like the type of product/theme

[RhysHamer]

(Original post by Zoe0288)
sorry about this but what did you guys do for your cousework? like the type of product/theme

I went for the solar power in the home specification, and made a solar powered night light for kids.


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[tynftw]

The exam was one question from each section and then another question from either section, not purely two questions from the second section by the way.


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