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County Kerry, Ireland

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Junior Certificate Material Technology Wood

Material Technology Wood, more commonly known as "Woodwork", is a hands-on subject where pupils will be working with tools and machinery, as well as with wood and plastic.

There are many benefits from woodworking for pupils; a sense of competence, confidence, responsibility, respect for self and others, respect for materials and safety improved eye-hand coordination, strength, and fine-motor control.

What's on the Junior Certificate Materials Technology Wood course?

  • Adhesives
  • Carving
  • Choice of Materials
  • Conversion
  • Design
  • Disease & Defects
  • Drawing Question
  • Finishes
  • Health & Safety
  • Joints & Jointing
  • Manufactured Boards
  • Plastics
  • Power Tools
  • Processing Wood
  • Rainforests & Deforestation
  • Seasoning
  • Sharpening
  • Tools
  • Trees & Growth
  • Veneering & Laminating
  • Woodturning
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What's the Junior Certificate MTW exam like?

35% of your Junior Cert grade comes from your project where you will research, design and build an object according to a brief released in February. Your teacher gets a list of three possible woodwork projects in February. You choose one and your project should contain;

  • An analysis of the selected brief
  • Investigation/research
  • Development of design ideas
  • Sketches, notations, working drawings
  • Manufacture of chosen solution
  • Evaluation of design and project

For the written paper, Section A has 20 short questions of which you will be marked out of your best 16. Section B has 5 long questions of which you must do three. The exam last for 2 hours.

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