Advanced Higher

Design and Manufacture · Advanced Higher

Product design from concept to manufacture: materials, modelling, CAD and design analysis.

The course

What Design and Manufacture is about

Design and Manufacture follows a product from a problem to a made object: design analysis, idea generation, modelling and CAD, materials selection, and the manufacturing processes that turn a design into something real.

Where it leads

What it offers you

It builds design thinking and practical making skills, and leads on to product design, engineering and construction courses and careers.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2025

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2024

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2023

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2022

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Design and Manufacture Advanced Higher on sqa.org.uk.

All Design and Manufacture levels