Choosing and processing materials with an understanding of why they behave as they do.
These are the statements the Industrial Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Materials Technology. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Material properties and testing - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Timber structure and seasoning - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Steels and heat treatment - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Polymer processing - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Composite materials - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Material selection matrices - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Sustainability and lifecycle - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Recycling and reuse - Materials Technology, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Materials Technology are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Industrial Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Materials Technology is module 2 of 3 in Industrial Technology Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Industrial Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.