CCEA Level 1/Level2 GCSE Engineering and Manufacturing

Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by CCEA. Classified as a GCSE (A* to G).

Qualification Level

Level 1/Level 2

Awarding Body

CCEA

Syllabus Units

3 Units

Guided Hours

Flexible

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Course Syllabus & Study Modules

Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.

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Key Learning Objectives:

This unit carries a weighting of 25 percent of the full qualification. Assessment forthis unit is three hours long and taken under examination conditions. This unit willenable students to complete a manufacturing task and demonstrate engineering andmanufacturing skills in the school workshop, using hand and manually controlledmachine tools under examination conditions invigilated by the teacher.In January of the second year of study, we will issue confidential instructions on therange of manufacturing processes, equipment and materials required to enablestudents to complete the practical examination task.The manufacturing task will take place on a date determined by the examinationtimetable.We will collect and mark the examination task.Students should be able to:? read, interpret and use engineering drawings;? use the appropriate materials, parts and components in the making of the task;? use appropriate hand tools, manually controlled equipment and processes in themaking of the task;? apply health and safety procedures when using tools and equipment; and? apply appropriate quality control techniques to ensure that individual parts arewithin the specified tolerances.

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Key Learning Objectives:

This unit carries a weighting of 25 percent of the full qualification. The controlledassessment task has a time guidance of approximately 20 hours. The aim of this unitis to give students an introduction to the planning, designing and proposal of anengineered product to satisfy a design need.Teachers should consider organising industrial visits to aid student understanding ofindustrial practice.Students produce a portfolio with a maximum of twelve A3 pages on one side onlyor equivalent, outlining their analysis of the product, with proposals for its design,development and production by an engineering and manufacturing company. Alltext must be font size
All titles should not exceed font size
Students maypresent the portfolio in an electronic format.

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Key Learning Objectives:

This unit carries a weighting of 50 percent of the full qualification. It is externallyexamined by one paper divided into two sections. Section A will require short andlong responses to pre-release material. Section B will require short and longresponses to unseen questions.We will provide the pre-release material in January of the year of the examination.Teachers should consider organising industrial visits to aid student understanding ofindustrial practice.This unit supports the content acquired in Units 1 and 2. This encourages students todemonstrate their ability to draw together areas of knowledge, skills and/orunderstanding from across a full range of study for this qualification. Therefore, weadvise that students should take this unit at the end of the two year course.