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hello, im doing textiles gcse and am doing my NEA right now. I was wondering, if i am a textiles student, does my NEA solely need to be based around textiles or am i allowed to discuss furniture and other products. in my NEA i have discussed other products that do not relate to textiles. is this ok?? does what im tryna say make sense :smile:
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hello, im doing textiles gcse and am doing my NEA right now. I was wondering, if i am a textiles student, does my NEA solely need to be based around textiles or am i allowed to discuss furniture and other products. in my NEA i have discussed other products that do not relate to textiles. is this ok?? does what im tryna say make sense :smile:

What guidance have you had? Have you checked the specification at all?

I'll tag @CoolCavy our resident expert :smile:
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Talk to your teacher. My understanding is that, whereas there used to be several different sort of GCSE DT (e.g. Resistant Materials, Graphic design, electronic products, systems and control) there is now only DT and Food Tech. If Textiles falls under the general DT then you could cover any aspect of DT within your GCSE - but check with your teacher as this isn't my specialist subject!
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Talk to your teacher. My understanding is that, whereas there used to be several different sort of GCSE DT (e.g. Resistant Materials, Graphic design, electronic products, systems and control) there is now only DT and Food Tech. If Textiles falls under the general DT then you could cover any aspect of DT within your GCSE - but check with your teacher as this isn't my specialsit subject!

thank you! when i picked my options last year, the subject I chose was textiles so I'm focusing on fabrics and stuff. i think once I complete this gcse, it will fall under qualification of textiles. i asked two teachers, one said my work was completely fine and the other said i need to focus more on textiles :/
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thank you! when i picked my options last year, the subject I chose was textiles so I'm focusing on fabrics and stuff. i think once I complete this gcse, it will fall under qualification of textiles. i asked two teachers, one said my work was completely fine and the other said i need to focus more on textiles :/

I've just checked and Textiles does come under GCSE DT as a GSCE - but might you be doing the Technical award in textiles? https://www.aqa.org.uk/news/new-technical-award-fashion-and-textiles

Even though, officially, all the DT options now come under the same GCSE, many schools have continued to teach it as separate options and call it by different names - this may be why your teachers are giving different answers as one has forgotten it is now all officially DT.
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I've just checked and Textiles does come under GCSE DT as a GSCE - but might you be doing the Technical award in textiles? https://www.aqa.org.uk/news/new-technical-award-fashion-and-textiles

Even though, officially, all the DT options now come under the same GCSE, many schools have continued to teach it as separate options and call it by different names - this may be why your teachers are giving different answers as one has forgotten it is now all officially DT.

ohh that makes so much sense tysm for ur help!! so even though my school has put me in a textiles class, my NEA doesn't need to be exclusive to textiles??
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What guidance have you had? Have you checked the specification at all?
I'll tag @CoolCavy our resident expert :smile:

hey, i am in a GCSE textile class and my teacher said i need to make my coursework more textiles based.
Talk to your school to clarify but i believe for textiles your product needs to be fabric based. For NEA product design you are allowed to make your project out of any material but as textiles is a subsection of product design in a way i imagine it's more specific. You will be able to talk about non fabric based products when making evaluations and comparisons providing they fill the same role your product is aiming to provide :smile:
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Talk to your school to clarify but i believe for textiles your product needs to be fabric based. For NEA product design you are allowed to make your project out of any material but as textiles is a subsection of product design in a way i imagine it's more specific. You will be able to talk about non fabric based products when making evaluations and comparisons providing they fill the same role your product is aiming to provide :smile:

Thank you! Yeah, my overall product will have to be textiles based (that's a given) :smile:

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