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AQA A-Level Design and Technology: Fashion and Textiles Paper 1- Monday 2nd June 2025

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by clareccc


Added! Thanks :biggrin:

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Guys . How are we feeling about this paper … currently scared that they are going to pull out some like statistical testing or something. Cause I find the maths in the textiles papers hard ://

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by clareccc

I feel like industrial tests might come up because that hadn’t in a few years . CAM/CAD related questions always come up . But I’m really hoping for sustainability and the 6Rs or fashion cycles to be honest . Cause that seems to be the only thing I fully understand—- šŸ§šŸ§šŸ§šŸ§

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by Carmilla1
Guys . How are we feeling about this paper … currently scared that they are going to pull out some like statistical testing or something. Cause I find the maths in the textiles papers hard ://

Hopefully it’s not histograms or anything to do with cumulative frequency because there’s been weird questions about them, I would be so happy if it was a bar chart question.

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by clareccc
Hopefully it’s not histograms or anything to do with cumulative frequency because there’s been weird questions about them, I would be so happy if it was a bar chart question.

Yesss. That would be so nice . Cause oml the maths questions on the paper 1 2021 was evil . Coming to this chat straight after I’ve sat the paper tomorrow (no one else in my sixth form does this subject so I have no one to talk to lol )

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How important do you think the structure of your answers is, I feel like the content was ok but i structured them terribly, no proper introduction or anything

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my structure was so bad and dude i thought underlining was interlining and the one question of the skirt got me wtf and then the how does textile product designed to be thermally insulated i started talking about finishes

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by ajyciao
my structure was so bad and dude i thought underlining was interlining and the one question of the skirt got me wtf and then the how does textile product designed to be thermally insulated i started talking about finishes

Yeh i couldn’t think of much to say about underlining, the skirt I talked about printing but that felt wrong, I talked about quilting, brushing and choice of fibre for the thermally insulated one but I didn’t really get what they were asking for with the give examples of fashion and internal textiles

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Can anyone remember what the analyse and evaluate questions were?

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by clareccc
Yeh i couldn’t think of much to say about underlining, the skirt I talked about printing but that felt wrong, I talked about quilting, brushing and choice of fibre for the thermally insulated one but I didn’t really get what they were asking for with the give examples of fashion and internal textiles
The example that I used was a blanket for the interior one and the fashion one I just put a coat .
(edited 9 months ago)

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by clareccc
Can anyone remember what the analyse and evaluate questions were?
There was that one difficult one about like New generational lyocells sustainability compared to cotton and that one the use of social media for fashion branding . But that’s all I can seem to remember. There was the one fibre content question for erm like the jacket

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by clareccc
Yeh i couldn’t think of much to say about underlining, the skirt I talked about printing but that felt wrong, I talked about quilting, brushing and choice of fibre for the thermally insulated one but I didn’t really get what they were asking for with the give examples of fashion and internal textiles

Real . Because what is underlining . Also that like Terry towell or whatever one was evil and threw me off at the start - like ??? That’s not even in the spec šŸ˜”
Hello, I moved your thread to the "Design and Technology exams" subforum for you.
How did your exam go?

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by Carmilla1
There was that one difficult one about like New generational lyocells sustainability compared to cotton and that one the use of social media for fashion branding . But that’s all I can seem to remember. There was the one fibre content question for erm like the jacket

Thankyou!! I’m kinda concerned I didn’t really put many disadvantages especially for the lyocell one lol

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by ajyciao
my structure was so bad and dude i thought underlining was interlining and the one question of the skirt got me wtf and then the how does textile product designed to be thermally insulated i started talking about finishes

The table at the start threw me off ——? Like. I knew modern and smart materials but not the ones in the table šŸ§šŸ§ I fear I did put ramine or something in a box (idek what that is)

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by clareccc
Thankyou!! I’m kinda concerned I didn’t really put many disadvantages especially for the lyocell one lol

Oh **** yeahh . Hmmm . AT LEAST THE MATHS WAS DELISH šŸ˜‹

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by Carmilla1
Real . Because what is underlining . Also that like Terry towell or whatever one was evil and threw me off at the start - like ??? That’s not even in the spec šŸ˜”

It’s such a tiny part of the revision guide I can’t believe they included it, it’s mentioned under uncut loop pile weaves, I barely remembered any of it’s properties tho so I think I just wrote about it being slow drying
Underlining is also a tiny part, it’s used to give shape without stiffening the fabric but I couldn’t really figure out what else to say about it

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by clareccc
Thankyou!! I’m kinda concerned I didn’t really put many disadvantages especially for the lyocell one lol
The smaller questions I can remember are :

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The health and safety for workers

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The social concerns for like workers of offshore production and natural fibres.

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Quilting

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Labelling fancy yarns ?!?! (Which I did not know šŸ’”)

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by Carmilla1
The table at the start threw me off ——? Like. I knew modern and smart materials but not the ones in the table šŸ§šŸ§ I fear I did put ramine or something in a box (idek what that is)

I think i put photochromic dyes and the performance something fabric for smart and then micro and nano fibres for modern, I couldn’t remember if micro fibres were modern so that stressed me out

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