Explore Design as a distinct ATAR course. Unit 1 – Representational design; Unit 2 – User-centred design
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What will I learn?
Unit 1 – Representational design
Year 11 courseUnit 2 – User-centred design
Year 11 courseHow will I be assessed?
Published course / existing guide: Year 11 published assessment types: Production; Response; Examination. Read the table in context for component weights; your school sets individual tasks and dates.
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Will I find it hard?
Difficulty depends on your experience, interests, teaching and assessment. These are our reflection prompts, not an official difficulty rating.
- Do you enjoy designing, testing and improving a solution over several attempts?
- Look at the tools and techniques in the course outline. Ask your school which equipment and projects it uses.
Does it scale up or down?
Design, 2025. TISC’s mean scaled scores summarise all students with a scaled score in the published course. The mean describes a cohort and gives no individual raw-to-scaled conversion. A scaled mean alone cannot establish whether this subject scaled up or down. Historical cohort data cannot predict your result or a future scaling direction.
| Mean scaled score | Students |
|---|---|
| 55.6 | 269 |
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Sources, versions and verification dates
Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-13. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.
- Design ATAR: Year 11 syllabus — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus – For teaching from 2026 (737.4 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Design ATAR: Year 11 syllabus, page 3 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus – For teaching from 2026 (737.4 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Design ATAR: Year 11 syllabus, page 20 — SCSA; 2026-11-13. Primary PDF course identity and available effective date checked against the observed source link. PDF ATAR Year 11 Syllabus – For teaching from 2026 (737.4 KB) opens in new window. Learning summaries are our paraphrases; assessment type names do not establish a school's task schedule or weighting. © School Curriculum and Standards Authority, CC BY 4.0; see the document notice.
- Design ATAR: Year 12 syllabus — SCSA; 2026-11-13. UNVERIFIED PDF body/version: this is the publicly advertised source link. Do not treat its unseen learning or assessment details as checked.
- TISC 2025 scaling report: Design — TISC; 2026-11-12. TISC’s mean scaled scores summarise all students with a scaled score in the published course. The mean describes a cohort and gives no individual raw-to-scaled conversion.