Industry Study
How an industry is structured, regulated and changing, and where a maker fits in it.
- Industry sectors and their interrelationships
- Structural and technical change in an industry
- Regulation, standards and codes
NSW Industrial Technology (Stage 6, Years 11-12) - industry study, design and the major project, workplace communication and safety - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Industrial Technology” 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.
How an industry is structured, regulated and changing, and where a maker fits in it.
From brief to finished product: design process, materials, and the management of a sustained project.
The communication and safety obligations that hold a workshop or site together.
A Industrial Technology 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 word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 3–5 |
| describe | Short answer | 2–3 |
| evaluate | Extended response | 4–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
| select | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 11 Course Examination Shape — 100 marks, 150 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.