D.t. Gcse ocr nea
Currently starting my NEA for my D.T. GCSE - to those who did the NEA last year or even before, what are you best tips? This year, we were handed very broad contexts but I think I know what I'll be doing, regardless, I'd appreciate some of your tips and if you have any suggestions - that would be amazing!
Reply 1
What are the OCR themes??
I did the NEA in a previous year, got a stupid high mark and am now going around and helping all the current NEA people
I know the challenges for AQA,EDEXCEL,EDUQAS but not OCR
Thankyou
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Reply 3
Currently starting my NEA for my D.T. GCSE - to those who did the NEA last year or even before, what are you best tips? This year, we were handed very broad contexts but I think I know what I'll be doing, regardless, I'd appreciate some of your tips and if you have any suggestions - that would be amazing!
i did it last year. my advice is: work hard, put in all the time you can to make your work thorough. Make sure you cover all points detailed on the specification. Basically if you work hard, you will get a good mark, but if you don't put much work in, you wont really do too well. If you do loads of work for the NEA, especially if you are in year 10 now, you will thank yourself in year 11 when you have loads of work from other subjects. I got 93/100 in the NEA so i knew that i could still afford to loose some marks in the exam and still get a nine. hope this helps
Reply 4
Currently starting my NEA for my D.T. GCSE - to those who did the NEA last year or even before, what are you best tips? This year, we were handed very broad contexts but I think I know what I'll be doing, regardless, I'd appreciate some of your tips and if you have any suggestions - that would be amazing!
My top tips are:
1.
Make it simple, you get marks for the process, not many for the final product, people spend too much time making it than documenting it, causing them to lose marks
2.
Put in as much work in as possible when you can. Like what someone else said, do as much as you can now, just make sure it's correct! I found putting big chunks into my coursework helped, for example on my last day of working, I spent all day doing it and got 5 pages done, just try to do as much early on in each section, so that you have more time for other revision
3.
Structure your PowerPoint well. Make 1-2 slides for each marking section, and label each box rlly well (idk if u get templates, we did). Make it as easy as possible for the examiner to find what they are looking for, and give you marks
4.
Don't get fixated on an idea. Think about lots of different strands from your context, and when thinking about designs, draw 8-10 and choose based on simplicity to make and aesthetics and how it works, I had an idea at first, and ended up doing something completely different!
5.
Stay in contact with your primary user + stakeholders. Keep them in the process throughout, I must have made 5 different interviews with my primary user, to show that the product you are making uses a UCD!
Reply 5
My top tips are:
1.
Make it simple, you get marks for the process, not many for the final product, people spend too much time making it than documenting it, causing them to lose marks
2.
Put in as much work in as possible when you can. Like what someone else said, do as much as you can now, just make sure it's correct! I found putting big chunks into my coursework helped, for example on my last day of working, I spent all day doing it and got 5 pages done, just try to do as much early on in each section, so that you have more time for other revision
3.
Structure your PowerPoint well. Make 1-2 slides for each marking section, and label each box rlly well (idk if u get templates, we did). Make it as easy as possible for the examiner to find what they are looking for, and give you marks
4.
Don't get fixated on an idea. Think about lots of different strands from your context, and when thinking about designs, draw 8-10 and choose based on simplicity to make and aesthetics and how it works, I had an idea at first, and ended up doing something completely different!
5.
Stay in contact with your primary user + stakeholders. Keep them in the process throughout, I must have made 5 different interviews with my primary user, to show that the product you are making uses a UCD!
Hey do you mind attaching a photo of your template because we didn't get one, Thank you!
Reply 6
Do you know any ideas for Household budget?
Reply 7
I can't, but the way we had our template organised was basically boxes for each marking point on the spec - so that it was easy for the examiners to find exactly what they need to find. We also did each slide on PowerPoint with a different theme - like research, design ideas, interviews + questionnaires
Reply 8
Oh ok! Thank you!
I'm doing stuff related to energy saving, as that will affect household budget, but I'm also struggling to generate the initial ideas for that context
My top tips are:
1.
Make it simple, you get marks for the process, not many for the final product, people spend too much time making it than documenting it, causing them to lose marks
2.
Put in as much work in as possible when you can. Like what someone else said, do as much as you can now, just make sure it's correct! I found putting big chunks into my coursework helped, for example on my last day of working, I spent all day doing it and got 5 pages done, just try to do as much early on in each section, so that you have more time for other revision
3.
Structure your PowerPoint well. Make 1-2 slides for each marking section, and label each box rlly well (idk if u get templates, we did). Make it as easy as possible for the examiner to find what they are looking for, and give you marks
4.
Don't get fixated on an idea. Think about lots of different strands from your context, and when thinking about designs, draw 8-10 and choose based on simplicity to make and aesthetics and how it works, I had an idea at first, and ended up doing something completely different!
5.
Stay in contact with your primary user + stakeholders. Keep them in the process throughout, I must have made 5 different interviews with my primary user, to show that the product you are making uses a UCD!
If you did OCR could you post your model slides as i feel like i spend too much time on slides and overthink and overcomplicate i want to see how much information I should add, and how to strcuture.Also do you get the results for just the coursework before gcse results day?
Reply 11
I'm sorry, I can't post the slides, but I remember taking a long time over each slide, a really useful tip I was given is to not waffle, they don't want to see stuff they can't mark you for - if you have the mark scheme, literally just tick all the boxes, and you don't need to do much more than that! You get the results for the coursework before exam season starts, as well as any other courseworks you did and english speaking results.
What are the OCR themes??
I did the NEA in a previous year, got a stupid high mark and am now going around and helping all the current NEA people
I know the challenges for AQA,EDEXCEL,EDUQAS but not OCR
Thankyou
Hi I was wondering if u can help me with this I’m doing an nea for education toys and games and I need to do a client profile and interview if u could help
Reply 13
Sure! Do you want to interview me, or just get advice (sorry, it's not clear!)
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