Yr 12

TERM 1 - TERM 3

Each candidate must undertake and present, on an individual basis, a Major Design Project for submission for the Higher School Certificate examination. The Major Design Project includes the practical hands-on activity of carrying the project through to realisation and the documentation, in a design folio, of all the steps involved in this process. 

The Major Design Project involves students selecting and applying appropriate design, production and evaluation skills to a product, system or environment which satisfies an identified need or opportunity. Students have developed a wide range of skills and knowledge in the Preliminary course, and in the HSC course are able to select and use those skills and knowledge appropriate to their selected project. 

The purpose of the folio is to document the project proposal, management, development, realisation and evaluation of the Major Design Project. Students need to select appropriate samples of work that reflect the processes they have followed and that provide information showing how they have met the Major Design Project examination criteria.