[123mccann]

What is the best way to revise for Design & Technology: Resistant Materials, coming up on the 2nd June, how is everyone elses revision going?

[FoOtYdUdE]

Originally Posted by 123mccann

What is the best way to revise for Design & Technology: Resistant Materials, coming up on the 2nd June, how is everyone elses revision going?

My birthday!

[Kameo]

what does that mean?

[sadmollz]

how have you all "interpreted" the pictures?

What kind of questions do you think are gonna come up?

what grades are you aiming for?

[123mccann]

I'm aiming for an A, but the text book we use is too precise and most of the theory thats in it we don't have to know.

[Malsy]

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[sadmollz]

Yeah but our pictures are like picninc benches and students sitting on the floor and a woman looking at her bike so we know what they mean i'm just trying to figure out what theyr're gonna ask about

[chemcat]

which exam board. I'm doing edexcel rm tech. For us we have 4 questions. One analysing a product, one about work shop processes, one design and one new material and industry

[123mccann]

Originally Posted by chemcat

which exam board. I'm doing edexcel rm tech. For us we have 4 questions. One analysing a product, one about work shop processes, one design and one new material and industry

Oh right, I totally forgot. Yes, i'm doing Edexcel also.

[sadmollz]

Oh right woops! i'm doing AQA

[superman!]

Originally Posted by 123mccann

What is the best way to revise for Design & Technology: Resistant Materials, coming up on the 2nd June, how is everyone elses revision going?

hi
i did DT RM last year, but i can tell you how i revised! i bourt a CGP RM revision guide.... and then i used the internet, one sec let me try and find the website...

heres one that i used... scroll down and it says GCSE revision...
http://www.design-technology.org/

http://www.designandtech.com/resistantmaterials/

http://www.notesandsketches.co.uk/Re...-materials.htm

http://www.design-technology.info/re...on/default.htm

this is the best site i used!!
http://www.technologystudent.com/

right, and what i did was lern a few ways of joining wood e.g dovetail joint, lap joint etc, and hardwoods and softwoods, and tools you use with wood and ways of finishing wood and protecting it and about chipboard and veneers etc.

and then i did a bit about metals - not much though

and then alot about plastcs - lernt some key names of plastics - what they can be used for, what glues you use with them etc etc, tools

and you need to know stuff about health and safety and the environment etc...

the best way i found to revise for this was to make spider diagrams etc and draw out the joining methods for wood etc...

and then... becuase im cool like this and rember things this way... to rember what the different saws do i made up little things that woud jog my memury about them, for example.. an abrafile = abracadabra, its magic it can cut in all directions!! haaha, ok im a wierdo, but it helps me, so i thought i woud shair it!!!

hope that kind of helps, sorry if it doesnt, feel free to ask more questions!!


good luck!

[superman!]

Originally Posted by sadmollz

Oh right woops! i'm doing AQA

hello in anser to your question on my rep....
i got an A
it was my best grade, i was really pleased!

are you thinking of doing Product Design in for AS?

what are you aiming for?

thanks for your rep

[redporshe]

Check out http://www.technologystudent.com/joints/joindex.htm

Go through that website and look for the theme of outdoor eating, it has lots of info and practise exam questions. The guy who made it has stuff on there that appears on the exams quite a lot.

Check out aqa past papers and esp. mark schemes, the theme will be different for each year but generic resistant materials wont change much eg safety and market research. So go through them.

Try to get hold of a 2000 paper as its the same theme thats on this years paper. If not that website above has similar stuff.

Practise drawing ideas and have three ideas ready for the exam. Practise doing them in 3d with lots of notes. This is guaranteed to come up and its a big chunk of the exam. Also practise production stages eg marking out, cutting out and finishing. This should be done with notes and suitable tools labelled too.

Thats the best i can think of, with questions not regarding the theme eg safety it helps me to think about what i did when making my product and what i did for coursework.

[sadmollz]

Originally Posted by superman!

hello in anser to your question on my rep....
i got an A
it was my best grade, i was really pleased!

are you thinking of doing Product Design in for AS?

what are you aiming for?

thanks for your rep

No problem the websites were really helpful!

I'm aiming for an A hopefully even a * but I don't want to take it for a level I didnt even want to tke it for gcse but got my second choice but its all good now its actually alright!

and well done for your A!

[superman!]

Originally Posted by sadmollz

No problem the websites were really helpful!

I'm aiming for an A hopefully even a * but I don't want to take it for a level I didnt even want to tke it for gcse but got my second choice but its all good now its actually alright!

and well done for your A!

yehhh at first i didnt want to take it, but then i loved DT, and thats what made me take it on for AS-Level, i was going to say if you were thinking of doing it, really consider weather you like it enouph, year 12, has 2 courseworks and is all theiry, no pracical, its a boring touph year!!

good luck! i hope you get an A*

[ppmans]

does anyone know how to get 2007 ocr past papers, for resistantmaterials (it's not on their website)

[ljc1]

Hi guys,

i was wondering if any of you could help me...

I'm doing the AQA exam next monday and I would like to know what percentage I need for an A* overall. I got full marks (95/95) for the making and folderwork.

On the practice papers I've been getting around 70%, would this be enough? My teacher doesnt seem to know, but it would take the pressure off if I only needed 60% or something.

[partysunil]

hi, u need around 73% to get the A*, I am aiming for an A

The boundaries are on the AQA website.

[Pink_Chocolate xx]

I really dont know what to revise or what I need to know, our teacher never taught us any theory stuff..so I have no clue. Im not even sure what I'm supposed to make of the prep sheet..yep I'm gonna do well.

[Jenny_x]

Yeah I'm aiming for an A too, would really like an A* but I'm not doing it for AS so wont be particually fussed if i don't get it.
As for revision techniques I find bubbles maps really good