Three components. One exam.
Components 2 and 3 are coursework, marked in school. Component 1 is the one you sit — sixty marks in an hour and a half — and everything for it is on this page.
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Answer a question, lay a block. Get it wrong and it falls out.
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Task
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A whole paper, built fresh every time.
Twenty-one questions, sixty marks, an hour and a half — the same shape as the real paper, slot for slot. The questions are new every time you press start, so you can sit one a week and never sit the same paper twice.
The whole specification, the way a real paper is set.
Sitting it properly, question 8 is a sketch — have a pencil and paper next to you. Playing it, question 8 becomes a build-up to stack in the right order instead.
- Answer in full sentences. The technical word is what earns the mark.
- Watch the marks. Two marks means two things, or one thing and why.
- Discuss means both sides, then say which you would choose.
- Nothing you type leaves this device.
Every question answered by dragging, with a score, a combo, boosters and a house that goes up a brick for every mark. Same paper, same marks.
Typed answers, marked against the criteria. Paper view in the toolbar lays the whole thing out as an exam paper with a cover sheet and ruled lines, and prints as a handout.
Not a whole paper — every question in the system on one thing. Foundations, walls, ground floors, roofs. Pull them all together and drill it.
BTEC Level 1 / Level 2 Tech Award
Construction and the Built Environment
COMPONENT 1: Construction Technology
Practice paper ·
Time: 1 hour 30 minutes · 60 marks
You must have
- A pen, and a pencil and ruler for the sketch.
- Nothing else. No calculator is needed.
Instructions
- Answer all questions.
- Write your answers in the spaces provided.
- Answer the questions in full sentences unless told otherwise.
Information
- The total mark for this paper is 60.
- The marks for each question are shown in brackets at the end of it.
- This paper has 21 questions.
Advice
- Read each question carefully before you answer it.
- Watch the marks: two marks means two things, or one thing and why.
- Check your answers if you have time at the end.
Grade boundaries are set by Pearson for each series, so a mark here is a mark, not a grade. Your teacher will tell you what this is worth this year.
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Written answers are marked on the key terms. A student who has the idea but not the word will score low here and low in the real thing — that is the lesson, not a fault in the marking.
The marks are the real thing — marked against the criteria. The points are just for beating yourself next time.
Every question in the system, on one thing.
A paper cuts across all ten topics because that is what a paper does. This cuts the other way: pick foundations and you get every foundation question there is — whatever its command verb, whichever paper it was written for — pulled together into one set.
Pick a topic to drill.
Drills are marked exactly like the paper, and they record as practice against the topics they came from. They are not a paper score — only a whole paper is that.
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The starter
Which topics Chosen for you by how long ago you did them — change it if you want
Drawn from the same question banks as the Test, so nothing here is new — that is the point. A starter is for the things you met a fortnight ago and have half forgotten, not for the lesson you just had.
Command words
Taken from the specification’s own list of the key terms used in assessment (Issue 3, Component 1). The definitions here are written in our words, not Pearson’s, and the worked answers are our own. Evaluate is not on the list and does not appear on this paper.
Glossary
Where these definitions come from
The Bench
Name it
Ten joints, one at a time, drawn apart. No dimensions, no labels — just the shape.
Marking out
Risk
Accuracy
Judge the frame
Five measurements taken off a finished frame. For each one, is it inside the tolerance or outside it?
Check it for square
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