A double-sided A4 sheet focused entirely on the 6-mark questions in the Component 3 exam — the questions most students find hardest and where the most marks are lost.
Designed to be handed out in the final lesson before the exam, or the morning of. Students attempt each question, then check the fully annotated model answer directly below.
What’s included:
Side 1 — How 6-mark questions work
A clear breakdown of the two command words used in Component 3 (Discuss and Evaluate) and exactly what each one requires. The level descriptors in plain English — what a 1–2, 3–4 and 5–6 answer actually looks like. A side-by-side comparison of undeveloped (Level 1) and developed (Level 2/3) points using real exam topics, so students can see the difference before they write. A panel of linking phrases that signal development to an examiner.
Side 2 — Four real 6-mark questions with fully annotated model answers
All four questions are taken from the May 2024 and January 2025 papers. Each question has a 20-line answer space followed by a Level 3 model answer annotated sentence by sentence — every line tagged as Point, Development, Scenario link or Conclusion, so students can see exactly which sentence does which job and why the answer reaches Level 3.
Questions included (real papers):
May 2024 Q4d: Discuss the accessibility features the company could use on an online ticket sales form [Discuss]
May 2024 Q4e: Evaluate the use of transactional data for a theatre company [Evaluate]
Jan 2025 Q4d: Discuss the ways a veterinary surgery can use collected data to improve its services [Discuss]
Jan 2025 Q4e: Evaluate the layout design features that can be used for a veterinary surgery website [Evaluate]
What makes this different from other 6-mark resources:
The existing resource on this store used the wrong command word throughout (explain instead of discuss/evaluate) and provided model answers with no explanation of why they scored marks. This sheet uses real exam questions, real mark scheme language, and annotates every sentence so students understand the structure — not just what a good answer looks like, but why it works.
Suitable for: BTEC Tech Award in Digital Information Technology (2022) — Component 3 only. Not suitable for the legacy specification.
Format: Microsoft Word (.docx) — fully editable so you can adapt for your students.
Print: Black and white, A4, double-sided. One sheet per student.