The document provides sample questions, student responses, and examiner comments from the 2019 CSEC Technical Drawing Examinations. The first question involves drawing a floor plan to scale with specified elements. The second question asks students to sketch a staircase and label components. The examiner comments positively evaluate responses that accurately follow the question requirements and drawing standards, and provide constructive criticism to help improve areas that did not fully meet the standards.

1. Exemplars from CSEC 2019 Examinations
Technical Drawing
SECTION 1 – WORKING DRAWING
Do NOT spend more than 2 hours on this section.
1. Figure 1, on the enclosed sheet, shows an outline of a single line drawing of the floor plan for a
single storey house.
(a) Draw to a scale of 1:50 the given floor plan, using appropriate building conventions, and
the specifications below. The drawing is to include the following:
(i) The kitchen countertop, upper cabinets, stove, sink and refrigerator
(ii) The bathroom with face basin in a counter, toilet and shower
(iii) External and internal wall sizes
(iv) Windows
(v) Doors with door swings
(vi) Stairs with handrail

3. Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing, Question 1
Plan
Strengths
 Rooms, patio, stairs, windows and doors drawn to correct scale
 Correct room names and room sizes
 Correctly shows different sizes for internal wall and external walls
 Correct number of doors and windows indicated in correct location
 Correctly indicates the five kitchen elements
 Correctly indicates the three bathroom elements
 Location of shower shown in bathroom corresponds to question with good placement and clearances of toilet
and counter
Weaknesses
 Upper cabinets not drawn to conventional standards
 Missing bedroom closet as per question

4. Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing, Question 1
Strengths
 Rooms, patio, stairs, windows and doors drawn to correct scale
 Correct room names and room sizes
 Correctly shows different sizes for internal wall and external walls
 Correct number of doors and windows indicated in correct location
 Correctly indicates the five kitchen elements
 Correctly indicates the three bathroom elements
 Conventional wall hatch correctly shown
Weaknesses
 Upper Cabinets not drawn to conventional standards
 Missing bedroom closet as per question
 Patio columns not correctly aligned

5. Exemplars from CSEC 2019 Examinations
Technical Drawing
SECTION II – SKETCH AND DESIGN
Do NOT spend more than 30 minutes on this section.
2. Figure 2, on the enclosed sheet, shows the plan of a straight flight staircase.
(a) Make a neat, proportional pictorial sketch of the staircase to include a handrail on ONE side.
(b) Label the following components of the staircase:
(i) A riser
(ii) A tread
(iii) A nosing
(iv) A handrail
(v) Two landings
(30 marks)

6. Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing, Question 2
Strengths
 Correctly represents a pictorial sketch in an isometric view
 Number of steps corresponds to the number of steps on the question
 Handrail correctly located one side
 Both landings correctly indicated
 Landing, riser, nosing, treads and handrail correctly labelled

7. Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing, Question 2
Strengths
 Correctly represents a pictorial sketch in an oblique view
 Handrail correctly located one side
 Landing, riser, nosing, treads and handrail correctly labelled
Weaknesses
 Incorrect number of steps
 Handrail does not continue at top and bottom landing as per question

8. Exemplars from CSEC 2019 Examinations
Technical Drawing
P02/B Q1. The candidates were given parts for a Bearing Housing to assemble to produce a
Front Elevation and a Sectional End Elevation (Full Section) along a specific
Cutting Plane.
Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing P02/B Q1
 The parts were assembled well (correct) and showed proper alignment for orthographic
projection method used to include the pin positional in the correct direction.
 The outside and hidden details of the features were well represented on the Front Elevation
of the assembly.

9.  The candidate showed the sectional view of the assembled parts along the cutting plane as
indicated in the question.
 Line weights were appropriately applied for outline, hidden detail, centre line, dimensions
and hatching lines.
 Six dimensions were included to show the requested: radius; metric thread, diameter and
an overall dimension.
 The title scale and projection method were indicated in the required format.
 The web was properly represented in section
How this work could be improved:
 Hatching lines must vary in direction and width to represent different parts.
 The cutting plane should be placed on the view representing outside features in this case
the front elevation to show where the section was taken
 All parts featured in the Sectional view (along where the cutting plane passed) must be
hatched.
 The Bolt head will not be visible in the Section View.

10. The candidates were given parts for a Bearing Housing to assemble to produce a Front Elevation
and a Sectional End Elevation (Full Section) along a specific cutting plane.
Comments on CSEC® Technical Drawing P02/B Q1
 The Sectional End Elevation was also an accurate representation as required by the given cutting plane.
 The cutting plane was shown on the Front Elevation to indicate where the section was taken.
 The requested six dimensions were shown to include the: metric thread, radius, diameter and overall
dimension.
 The web was properly represented in section.
 The Title, scale and projection method was stated in the requested format.
Weaknesses:
 Line weights for dimension lines/extension lines were not appropriate.
 The line to show the cut hole in the bearing cap in section was missing.