National 5
Practical Cookery · National 5
Food preparation, techniques and culinary skills, assessed through practical work and a written paper.
What Practical Cookery is about
Practical Cookery develops professional cookery skills: food preparation and cooking techniques, safe and hygienic working, and planning and producing dishes to a brief.
What it offers you
Direct preparation for hospitality and catering courses and work, with the health-and-safety grounding employers expect.
Papers & marking schemes
2026
4 files2025
4 files2024
4 files2023
4 filesSQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Practical Cookery National 5 on sqa.org.uk.