L1 92007 Design

Design a digital technologies outcome

Digital Technologies | Level 1 | AS 92007 (1.4) | 5 Credits 

*** In 2026 this external will be an Online Examination held on THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER - AM *** 

A. Start Here — What is 92007? 

92007 – Design a digital technologies outcome is a 5-credit Level 1 external examination.

In the exam, you will answer questions about a digital technologies design you worked on during the year.

This standard is about your DESIGN, not the development or making of the final outcome.

Your design should be for a feasible Level 6 digital technologies outcome, such as:

• a website

• an app

• a game

• an animation

• a software application

• a 3D / digital manufacturing outcome

• a robotics project

A simple standalone outcome such as a logo or poster is not enough for this standard.

IMPORTANT

You are writing about what you DESIGNED — not what you later developed.

For example:

Design evidence

• sketches

• wireframes

• storyboards

• mock-ups

• diagrams

• game design documents

• plans showing how something will look and/or work

• different design ideas and refinements

Development evidence

• coding the website

• modelling the final 3D object

• creating the finished animation

• building the game

• manufacturing the product

92007 is about the first list.

The achievement standard defines a completed design as something that communicates how a feasible digital technologies outcome could look and/or function.

In the 2026 exam

• The exam is completed online at the end of the year.

• Questions may be short or extended answer.

• You will answer using evidence from your own design work.

• No images are required in the examination.

• Aim for no more than 800–1200 words in total.

The goal is not to memorise an essay.
Know your own design well enough that you can choose the best evidence for the question you are given.

B. Know What You Could Be Asked About 

Use the Unpack Your Design slides to work through each of these areas using examples before you build your own Design Evidence Bank.

Task 1 - Check Your Project Evidence  

Before you begin exam practice, open your project/design document and check that you can find strong evidence for each area below.

You should be able to locate:

1. a clear need or opportunity

2. your potential users

3. at least three meaningful user requirements

4. two or more different design ideas you generated

5. examples of how you applied manaakitanga and/or kaitiakitanga

6. evidence showing how the completed design meets your user requirements

7. at least two examples of feedback that resulted in improvements

8. at least two important design decisions you can explain

9. a completed design that clearly shows how the proposed outcome would look and/or work

10. why your completed design is fit for purpose

As you check your document

For each area, ask yourself:

• Can I find the evidence quickly?

• Is it specific to MY design?

• Can I explain what happened without simply reading the document?

• Do I know WHY the decision/change mattered?

• Can I link it back to my users, requirements or need/opportunity?

If something is unclear or missing, go back to your project work and make sure you understand that area before moving on. Use the Support Guide below to help you. 

You are not creating another revision document. Your goal is to know where the strongest evidence is in the project work you have already completed.

Task 2 – Practise with the 92007 Revision Gem

Once you have checked your project document, use the 92007 Revision Gem to practise talking and writing about your own design.

Upload your project/design document when prompted.

The Gem can:

• ask you exam-style questions based on your own design

• help you identify the strongest evidence for a question

• check whether you are talking about design rather than development

• question you about your users and requirements

• help you explain Feedback → Change → Why → Improvement

• help you explain Decision → Reason → Impact

• practise making clear links to fitness for purpose

• give feedback on whether your answer needs more detail, explanation or justification

The Gem should question and coach you — not write exam answers for you.

D. Understand What Strong Answers Look Like 

2026

• Assessment specification

• 2026 Sample Assessment

2025

• 2025 92007 Assessment Report

• 2025 92007 Assessment Schedule

• 2025 92007 Excellence Exemplar

• 2025 92007 Merit Exemplar

• 2025 92007 Achieved Exemplar

• 2025 v5 92007 Achievement Standard (current)

Further Assessment Reports, Assessment Schedules and Exemplars

In the drop downs below you will find more previous years with the Assessment Report, the Assessment Schedule and any exemplars NZQA provided. 

Task 3 - Practise Answering Exam Questions

Before the derived grade exam, work through the three practices below. The support gradually reduces each time so that you become more confident responding independently under exam conditions.

After each practice: Get focused feedback from the Revision Gem and/or your teacher. Instructions and a prompt are below the three practice exam instructions. 

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Practice 1 — Supported

Project Document + Planning Prompts 

Open 92007 – Practice 1 – Supported and make a copy. 

Use your project/design document while you work through the practice questions.

The planning prompts will help you:

• work out what each question is actually asking

• locate the strongest evidence from your own design

• keep your response focused on design rather than development

• use specific and meaningful user requirements

• explain Feedback → Change → Why → Improvement

• explain Decision → Reason → Impact → Requirement

• justify fitness for purpose using your need, users, requirements and design evidence

• revise your writing by making the main point clear, adding useful detail and using precise design vocabulary

Afterwards: use the Revision Gem and/or teacher feedback to identify where your responses need more depth.

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Practice 2 — Less Supported

Project Document Only 

Open 92007 – Practice 2 – Less Supported and make a copy.

Use only your project/design document while you work through the practice.

This time there are fewer prompts. Focus on:

• identifying exactly what each question is asking

• selecting the evidence that best answers that particular question

• using specific examples from your own design

• explaining why feedback or a decision improved the design

• linking decisions back to your users and requirements

• keeping development of the actual outcome out of your response

• making a clear judgement when justifying fitness for purpose

• writing clearly and concisely rather than trying to include everything you know

Afterwards: check that your responses clearly show the thinking needed for the question.

Useful connections include:

Feedback → Change → Why → Improvement

Decision → Reason → Impact → Requirement

Need → Users → Requirements → Design Evidence → Judgement

Use the Revision Gem and/or your teacher to identify anything that still needs strengthening.

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Practice 3 — Independent Mock

No Notes 

Put your project/design document and revision resources away. Open 92007 – Practice 3 – Independent Mock and make a copy.

Complete the practice independently, without using notes.

Treat this as a rehearsal for the derived grade exam:

• read all parts before you begin

• answer the question that is actually being asked

• use specific evidence from your design from memory

• write about the design stage/phase, not development of the final outcome

• explain why feedback and design decisions improved the design

• justify fitness for purpose using evidence

• keep your overall response within 800–1200 words

• leave time at the end to revise and edit your writing

Afterwards: compare your responses with your project document and identify:

• important evidence you forgot

• places where your requirements were too vague

• where you described a change but did not explain why it mattered

• where you slipped into talking about development rather than design

• where your fitness-for-purpose judgement needed stronger evidence

• areas you need to revise before the derived grade exam

Then use the Revision Gem, your teacher or the 92007 Support Guide to target those weaker areas.

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~ Using the Revision Gem after a practice ~

Only use after completing each practice - not while you are answering it.  

Start a new chat with the 92007 Revision Gem. Upload your completed practice response and, if needed, your project/design document. Then paste:

I have just completed 92007 Practice [1 / 2 / 3]. Review my practice response as exam preparation. Use the 92007 expectations in your instructions and evidence from my own design where relevant. Tell me what I did well, where my response needs more depth, and the ONE area I should focus on improving next. Do not rewrite my answers for me. Help me improve through questions and feedback. Pay particular attention to whether I am writing about design rather than development, whether I explain why feedback and design decisions improved the design, and whether my fitness-for-purpose judgement is supported by the need, users, requirements and specific design evidence. 

Term 3, Week 8 & 9 - Check when your class is timetabled (11DTE, 11DTG, 11DTT, 11DTP)

Complete the full derived grade examination under exam conditions.

Treat this as your first complete 92007 exam attempt, not the end of your revision.

The feedback and result from this exam will help you decide what to focus on before the final examination in November

Task 4 - Review Your Derived Grade

Use your derived grade response and teacher feedback to work out what you need to improve before the final exam.

Ask yourself:

• What did I do well?

• Where was my evidence strong and specific?

• Which question or area was hardest for me?

• Where was I too general?

• Did I answer what the question was actually asking?

• Did I stay focused on design, rather than development of the outcome?

• Where did I need more explanation or justification?

Then identify whether you need to work on:

• using more specific evidence from your own design

• clearly explaining the need or opportunity

• identifying meaningful user requirements

• explaining how your completed design meets those requirements

• giving stronger examples of manaakitanga and/or kaitiakitanga

• explaining Feedback → Change → Why → Improvement

• explaining Decision → Reason → Impact

• linking design decisions back to your users and requirements

• explaining how decisions improved the look and/or function of the design

• justifying fitness for purpose using the need, users, requirements and specific design evidence

• writing clearly and concisely rather than trying to include everything

Task 5 - Targeted Revision with the Gem 

Use the 92007 Revision Gem to practise the areas identified from your derived grade feedback.

Start a new Gem chat. Upload your derived grade response and teacher feedback if you have them, then paste:

I have completed my 92007 derived grade exam and now want targeted revision for the final exam. Use my response and teacher feedback to identify the most important area I need to improve. Focus on that area first. Give me new exam-style practice using evidence from my own design. Question me rather than writing answers for me, and give me feedback that helps me improve my describing, explaining and justifying. Pay particular attention to whether I am talking about design rather than development, whether I explain why feedback and design decisions improved the design, and whether my fitness-for-purpose judgement is supported by the need, users, requirements and specific design evidence. When I am consistently showing enough depth, tell me I am ready to move to the next area. 

Then, as you revise:

• focus on one area at a time

• use evidence from your own design

• practise with new exam-style questions

• use your teacher feedback to guide what you work on

• practise choosing the strongest evidence for the question

• keep practising until you can respond without relying heavily on prompts

Do not redo everything. Focus on the areas that will make the biggest difference to your final exam response.

E. Final Exam Checklist 

Before Thursday 26th November

• I know which design project I will discuss.

• I can clearly explain the need or opportunity my design was responding to.

• I know who my potential users are and what they need.

• I have at least three clear, meaningful user requirements.

• I can describe two or more design ideas I generated.

• I can explain how I applied manaakitanga and/or kaitiakitanga in my design or design process.

• I can describe my completed design, including how it looks and how it would work.

• I can explain how my completed design meets the user requirements.

• I have at least two specific feedback examples that led to genuine improvements.

• For each feedback example, I can explain what changed, why it changed, and how it improved the design.

• I have at least two important design decisions I can explain using Decision → Reason → Impact.

• I can link those decisions back to my users, requirements and purpose.

• I can justify why my completed design is fit for purpose using specific evidence.

• I know the difference between designing and developing and will keep my answers focused on the design stage.

• I have reviewed my derived grade feedback and targeted my weaker areas.

• I can answer without relying on my project document or revision notes.

• I know how to access the digital examination.

Final exam: Thursday 26th November 2026 - AM

• Read every part of the question carefully.

• Answer the question that is actually being asked.

• Use specific evidence from your own design.

• Explain why decisions and changes mattered.

• Link your evidence back to users and requirements.

• Make a clear judgement when justifying fitness for purpose.

• Keep your response focused on design — not development.

• Aim for 800–1200 words in total.

• Leave time to revise first, then edit your writing.