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All rights reserved.  \nAQA retains the copyright on all its publications. However, registered schools/colleges for AQA are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their own internal use, with the following important exception: AQA cannot give permission to schools/colleges to photocopy any material that is acknowledged to a third party even for internal use within the centre.  \nREPORT ON THE EXAMINATION – GCSE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY – 8552/C – JUNE 2023  \nGeneral comments on the NEA  \nThe moderation team are delighted to report that they have again seen some stunning NEA work this year, despite the interruptions to education caused by the global pandemic. Candidates have responded well to all three contexts set. The majority of centres have been accurate or very accurate in their assessments of the candidates’work. Centres, staff and candidates are to be congratulated for this phenomenal achievement.  \nSelecting contexts  \nCentres are able to offer one, two or all three contexts published for each year. For 2023, most centres offered all three. Where centres offered a single context, it was still possible to see very differing responses to the adopted context. A few centres allowed their candidates to explore all three contexts at the start of their folders, before choosing one to continue with. The work for the two contexts not adopted was given no credit by AQA. Only the work for the chosen context gains credit for marks.  \nMaking assessments  \nWhen making assessments of candidates’ work it is worth reading the paragraph that preceeds each section of assessment criteria. This paragraph gives useful information about the sort of content that is likely to be found for assessment for each section.  \nSection A Investigating the context  \nMost candidates successfully carried out some analysis of the chosen contextual challenge. From this, and an investigation of client needs and wants, they were able to identify some design possibilities. By exploring these further, candidates were able to narrow this down to a single design possibility that was suitable to take forward in the time available for the NEA. Pupils investigated the work of others, and this was often successfully done through product analyses. It was important that this analysis work was then used to inform the candidate’s own ideas. The potential impact on society was considered too. The best work was concise, relevant and investigation continued throughout the project, directly informing decisions. Design possibilities were well justified and understood.  \nA few centres allowed candidates to investigate all three contexts set by AQA for 2023 , and this meant that the candidates spent more time on this section than was needed. They only gained marks for the context taken forward. For some, marks were restricted in this section because they did not consider a range of design possibilities before choosing one following further investigation. When investigating the work of others, candidates are not restricted to just the designers and companies named in the subject specification. Any designer’s and company’s work can be considered. However, this investigation needs to relevant to the chosen context and design possibilities.  \nCandidates tended to show the weakest performance in this section where the work was highly structured and formulaic in its approach. Centres are reminded that templates and writing frames are specifically forbidden in the NEA. Please see section 4.4.3 of the subject specification.  \nREPORT ON THE EXAMINATION – GCSE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY – 8552/C – JUNE 2023  \nCandidates also did not score very well when they appeared to complete initial investigation for no particular reason, i","cbCaig3R9pLPKvwc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig3R9pLPKvwc","pdf",168250,"English","# General comments on the NEA\n# Selecting contexts\n# Making assessments\n# Section A Investigating the context\n# Section B Producing a design brief and specification\n# Section C Generating design ideas","[{\"question\":\"How should centres select and manage the NEA contexts for 2023?\",\"answer\":\"Centres may offer one, two, or all three contexts, but only the chosen context is credited. 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