[carly_l]

Hi everyone - I'm doing A2 design and technology at the moment, nearly finished the course, and nowhere near done with the coursework! I'm really struggling to understand the theory of the course (systems and control - mechanisms, pneumatics etc.) and I was wondering if anybody knew of any good websites/revision guides which I would find useful!

Thanks!

[Coursework.info]

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[jackbourne]

I'm sorry I have no suggestions but I find it annoying for getting Electronics revision for A2.
Library?

[dejongajongjong]

I do Design Technology: Product Design. Until a few months ago I was getting D's and E's for the exam, because I couldn't understand the theory.
Just buy cheap textbooks from Amazon.co.uk for Design Tech. I have one A-Level Product Design. It is ******* amazing for revision. Do revision notes. Do past exam papers and get them marked by your teacher (luckily my teacher is one of the OCR Examination Officers) once you get the exam technique right it's easy. Also the questions get repeated a lot e.g. They ask about Injection Moulding about once every two years in Product Design so learn it off by heart. Other than that most of the paper is just common sense, Like why is plastic better than glass for manufacturing bottles or for a more Systems and Control related one, Discuss the ways batteries can be recycled?

For the coursework, my advice is start now. Unless you wanna be doing a couple of all nighters before the deadline date. Plus, theres gonna be loads of things that will unexpectedly happen. E.g. I'm building a punching bag and the leather I'm using wasn't durable enough and it ripped. If this happened a few days before the deadline date I would be ******.
For the coursework I did earlier in the year I litterally stayed up over 60 hours before the deadline. I felt like **** and looked ******* shattered by the time it was done and even then I had already done quite a lot.

[carly_l]

Well thats the thing - we do past papers and the teacher doesn't mark anything, its a bit ridiculous really. He'll set us homework - he doesn't mark it, or even collect it in in fact. And thennnn, he just gives us sheets of paper says "read it" and that'll be done with it! So thats why I'm really nervous... Is product design good? I want to do it at university

[dejongajongjong]

Product Design is awesome, but way too much workload and too stressful for me
It's basically the same as A Level coursework but once a month.

If he doesn't mark it then mark it yourself from the mark scheme, You can download it from the same place as the exam papers.

[samski1]

just thought id bring this topic back up... im doing systems an control too! got my product study and main project in just on time (woohooo all nighters!!!) but i got 100/100 for the project and 45/50 for my product study - happy days. now im panicking about the exam too. i have done about 2 hours of theory revision with my teacher.

have you managed to find a good revision book that teaches u all the rubbish theory?

[impervious]

Originally Posted by carly_l

Hi everyone - I'm doing A2 design and technology at the moment, nearly finished the course, and nowhere near done with the coursework! I'm really struggling to understand the theory of the course (systems and control - mechanisms, pneumatics etc.) and I was wondering if anybody knew of any good websites/revision guides which I would find useful!

Thanks!

www.technologystudent.com is pretty useful if a bit simplistic.

http://www.technologystudent.com/gener/linkspg1.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebit...ystemscontrol/

Just general wikipedia searching can be a big help. Especially for PCB related information for AS module...

[carly_l]

Argh...Friday big day! Jesus...haha.

Thanks for all the responses guys