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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Digital Technology

The vocabulary of WJEC GCSE Digital Technology, a qualification made for Wales, including the legislation titles pupils have to get exactly right.

Terms
405
Lessons
14
Spec code
3490QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Digital 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.

  • cost per unit of storage
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • forums and online communities
  • increased feelings of isolation
  • deliberate destruction of data
  • climate and environmental monitoring
  • conditional formatting
  • measurable success criteria
  • Accessible Rich Internet Applications
  • identifying and removing errors
  • intellectual property infringement
  • digital marketing strategy
  • Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
  • processing efficiency
  • Systems Development Life Cycle
  • Voice Over Internet Protocol
  • remote and hybrid work models
  • redundant systems and failover

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.

The Digital World

  • 1.1 Data
  • 1.2 Digital technology systems
  • 1.3 Digital communication
  • 1.4 The digital shift: work, trade and monetisation
  • 1.5 Securing data and systems
  • 1.6 Emerging and evolving digital technologies

Digital Practices

  • 2.1 Data management and analysis
  • 2.2 Proposing and designing digital products
  • 2.3 Implementation
  • 2.4 Testing and evaluating

Communicating in the Digital World

  • 3.1 Digital marketing investigation
  • 3.2 Developing a digital marketing strategy

Command words and legislation

  • 4.1 Command words and legislation
  • 4.2 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 Digital Technology Specification (Version 2 - February 2026)
  • WJEC GCSE Digital Technology Guidance for Teaching: Unit 1 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Digital Technology Guidance for Teaching: Unit 2 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Digital Technology Guidance for Teaching: Unit 3 (Undated)

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