Product Design A Level AQA

Applications Open – 3rd November 2025

Applications Close – 31st July 2026

Entry Requirements –We do have entry recommendations for some courses, especially A-levels, as we would not want you to start a course that would not be suitable for you. We want to give you the best chance of future success.

The course programmes are flexible: students can mix Level 3 courses with Level 2 courses, or A-levels with BTECs. We provide impartial advice and guidance and seek to put you on the courses you want and are likely to be successful in.

Students are expected to study up to 3 A level equivalent subjects (this can be from either A levels and/or Level 3 BTEC subjects) building their own personalised combination of Level 3 subjects OR a full time Level 2 course.

The sixth form runs on a flexible timetable with some courses running until 6.00pm. This flexibility means we can offer as much as possible, to as many as possible, as often as possible.

How to Apply – Please apply via Kent Choices.

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The course has been designed to encourage pupils to take a broad view of design and technology, to develop their capacity to design and make products and to appreciate the complex relationships between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.

• Researching & designing a finished item

• Social, moral, economic and ethical issues within the industry

• Development of designs

• Production of 3D products

• Joinery techniques

• Study of industrial processes

• Study of the design industry

• Jig making

• Testing and modelling

A Level Design and Technology: Product Design helps students take a broad view of design and technology, and develops their capacity to design and make products and appreciate the complex relationships between design, materials, manufacture and marketing.

We would recommend a grade 6 at GCSE in resistant materials or product design and a grade 5 at GCSE in English.

Vocation

This course will help you to achieve employment in many industries including design, joinery, carpentry, and electrician.

Academic

This course could lead to the study of product design, graphic design, engineering, furniture design, or architecture at higher education.

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