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Food Technology Year 9

NSW Food Technology Years 7-10 (Stage 5, Year 9) - food product development, food service and catering, food for special needs - expressed in Dux teaching language.

Modules
3
Dot points
24
Question types
6
Assessment
50 marks in 75 minutes
01Course content

Every module, and the dot points inside it

Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Food Technology Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.

Food Product Development

Designing a food product for a market: brief, trials, testing and evaluation.

  • Market research and target consumer
  • Product brief and specifications
  • Recipe development and trials
All 8 dot points

Food for Special Needs

Cooking for people whose needs differ: allergies, intolerances, medical diets and life stages.

  • Allergens and anaphylaxis management
  • Coeliac disease and gluten-free cooking
  • Diabetes and glycaemic response
All 8 dot points
02How you are asked

The command words this course marks on

A Food Technology Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.

Command wordQuestion typeMarks
analyseShort answer3–5
describeShort answer2–3
evaluateExtended response4–6
explainShort answer3–4
identifyMultiple choice1
selectMultiple choice1
03Assessment

How a Food Technology Year 9 paper is built

Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.

  1. Section I: Knowledge and skills10 marks
  2. Section II: Written responses40 marks

Start with the Food Technology Year 9 dot points you have never been asked

Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.