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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Design and Technology

Core content plus every endorsement: materials and their properties, manufacturing processes, tolerances typed as the exam expects them.

Terms
341
Lessons
12
Spec code
3481QS / 3482QS / 3483QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Design and Technology specification, first teaching 2026.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • computer aided manufacture
  • International Standards Organisation
  • working drawings and schedules
  • acrylonitrile butadiene styrene
  • peripheral interface controller
  • phase changing materials
  • progressive bundle system
  • continuous flow production
  • biomimicry and the natural world
  • health and safety regulations
  • subtractive manufacturing
  • British Standards Institute
  • factors that influence design
  • thermoforming polymers
  • light dependent resistor
  • continuous filaments
  • straight line production
  • medium density fibreboard

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Design and Technology in the 21st Century

  • 1.1 New and emerging technologies
  • 1.2 Sustainable design and energy
  • 1.3 Contemporary design thinking; historical and cultural influences

Engineering Design

  • 2.1 Metals, polymers and stock forms
  • 2.2 Electronic and control systems, forces and movement

Fashion and Textiles

  • 3.1 Fibres, fabrics and finishes
  • 3.2 Textile construction and manufacture

Product Design

  • 4.1 Materials and their properties
  • 4.2 Processes, tolerances and manufacture

Design Project

  • 5.1 Iterative design and specification
  • 5.2 Making, testing and evaluating
  • 5.3 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Design and Technology Specification (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Design and Technology Guidance for Teaching: Unit 1 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Design and Technology Guidance for Teaching: Unit 2 (Undated)

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