Timber, metal, plastic and textile: what they are like, and what that means for making.
These are the statements the Industrial Technology Year 7 syllabus makes about Materials and Processes. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Timber: types, grain and properties - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Metal: ferrous and non-ferrous - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Plastics: thermoplastics and thermosets - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Textiles and joining methods - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Measuring and marking out - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Hand tools and their purposes - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Joining: nails, screws, glue, welds - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Finishing and surface treatment - Materials and Processes, Year 7.
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Materials and Processes are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Industrial Technology Year 7 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Materials and Processes is module 2 of 3 in Industrial Technology Year 7. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Industrial Technology Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.