National 5

Practical Woodworking · National 5

Bench skills, power tools and timber project work.

The course

What Practical Woodworking is about

Practical Woodworking builds bench skills: measuring and marking out, sawing, jointing, assembly and finishing, producing accurate, well-made pieces.

Where it leads

What it offers you

Ideal preparation for joinery, carpentry and construction apprenticeships and college courses.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2026

2 files

2025

2 files

Question papers

Marking instructions

2024

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 Practical Woodworking National 5 on sqa.org.uk.

All Practical Woodworking levels