Technological Studies is part of the Scottish Standard Grade

Standard Grade

Standard Grades are Scotland's educational qualifications for students aged around 14 to 16 years, which are due to be fully replaced in 2014 when Scottish Qualifications Authority's Higher Still system becomes the main qualifications as part of the major shake up of Scotland's education system as...

 course.

The base Standard Grade course includes:

• Introduction to Systems
• Pneumatic Systems
• Applied Electronics
• Programmable Control
• Mechanisms
• Energy

Further Learning

A Credit pass at Standard Grade can lead to the University Qualifying Course of Higher

Higher (Scottish)

In Scotland the Higher is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. It superseded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Education...

 Technological Studies, which consists of three main units:

• Systems and Control
• Applied Electronics
• Structures and Materials

each of these units contains either 3 or 4 outcomes which detail specific parts of the unit, and can be quite different from each other.

Higher Assessment

A (currently 3-hour exam) is sat for Higher Technological Studies as well as an internal National Assessment Bank

National Assessment Bank

National Assessment Banks, commonly referred to as NABs after the National Assessment Bank from which these assessments are selected by teachers, are internal assessments that form part of the Scottish Higher and Intermediate courses. These are assessed by a centre and are moderated by the SQA...

 issued by the SQA, for each unit. Candidates must pass each NAB in order to sit the exam. (Previously, there was a NAB per outcome, but the new system results in only 3 NABs).

Higher Technological Studies is notoriously one of the hardest Higher exams to pass with only a 60% pass rate. This results in uptake for the subject being rather low.

Past papers for both levels are available from the SQA website, as are other Scottish Standard Grade

Standard Grade

Standard Grades are Scotland's educational qualifications for students aged around 14 to 16 years, which are due to be fully replaced in 2014 when Scottish Qualifications Authority's Higher Still system becomes the main qualifications as part of the major shake up of Scotland's education system as...

, Intermediate 2

Intermediate 2

Intermediate 2 level is Level 5 on the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. Though equivalent to the Credit Level Standard Grade, there is an element of debate to this as it is perceived to be more difficult in some subjects, but less in others....

 and Higher

Higher (Scottish)

In Scotland the Higher is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority. It superseded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Education...

 courses.

Course notes are available on the Learning Teaching Scotland website.