WJEC GCSE Design and Technology past papers

This page links every Design and Technology paper WJEC publishes for everyone to download, newest first, starting with June 2025. Each link opens the PDF on WJEC's own website. The most recent series is usually released a year or so after the exam, and it will appear here once WJEC makes it public.

Yes, 6 of the 12 question papers here have a mark scheme, and 3 have an examiner report as well, which is worth reading for the mistakes that cost the most marks.

In June 2026, an A needed 127 out of 200 and a C needed 79 on Engineering Design. On Fashion & Textiles, an A needed 127 out of 200 and a C needed 79. The grade boundaries for every series from June 2019 to June 2026 are on this course's grade boundaries page, and each series of papers here links to its own year's table, so you can mark a paper and read your grade.

It is linked at the top of this page: WJEC's own Design and Technology specification (3601), a PDF on its website, which sets out what you can be examined on and how the exams are marked.

Once you have worked through the papers, cookie has a practice deck for this course with fresh questions based on the specification and past papers, feedback on what you write, and spaced repetition.

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