Eight multiple choice and two written, marked as you go. Free, no account.
Lines and lettering
Answer: B. A dashed line
A dashed line is a hidden edge. A thick continuous line is a visible outline. A chain line is a centre. A wavy line is not the outline of a hidden edge. The line type is marked even when the shape is right, so a solid line in place of a dashed line loses the point.
Lines and lettering
Answer: B. From the bottom of the sheet or from the right
Figures are written so they can be read from the bottom of the sheet or from the right. A centre line is not a dimension line. Repeating a size adds nothing and can contradict the first figure. Keep the dimension outside the view when you can, with a small gap before the extension line.
Geometrical construction
Answer: B. More than half the line, and the same from both ends
The compass is opened to more than half the line, and that same opening is used from both ends. The arcs then cross twice. The line that joins the crossings is the perpendicular bisector. If the opening is half or less, the arcs may not cross, and there is no bisector to join.
Geometrical construction
Answer: B. A right angle
The radius to the point of contact is perpendicular to the tangent, so the angle is a right angle. A chord would cut the circle in two points. A tangent touches at one point only. The isometric angle of 30 degrees belongs to pictorial drawing, not to this construction.
Orthographic projection
Answer: B. Below the front view
In first angle projection the plan is placed below the front view. In third angle it is placed above the front view. The view from the left is placed on the right in first angle, and on the left in third angle. Name the system. A plan drawn inside the front view is not a projection layout.
Orthographic projection
Answer: B. On the left of the front view
In third angle the view from the left is placed on the left of the front view, and the plan is placed above the front view. First angle puts that left view on the right. A second plan is not an end view. An end view shows the depth the front view cannot.
Pictorial drawing
Answer: B. The axes are a vertical and two at 30 degrees, all to the same scale
Isometric axes are one vertical and two at 30 degrees to the horizontal, with the same scale on each. Parallel edges stay parallel. A vanishing point belongs to perspective. A true front face with half depth is cabinet oblique. A circle on an isometric face is drawn as an ellipse.
Sections and developments
Answer: B. A rectangle whose width is the circumference and whose height is the height of the cylinder
A right cylinder develops as a rectangle. The width is the circumference of the base and the height is the height of the cylinder. A right cone develops as a sector whose radius is the slant height. Hatching belongs to a section, not to a development. Do not hatch the flat pattern.
State where the plan is placed in first angle projection. (1 mark)
State where it is placed in third angle projection. (1 mark)
State where the view from the left is placed in first angle. (1 mark)
Answer the parts you can. Everything you write is marked together.
Marking guide
(a) Below the front view: 1 mark.
(b) Above the front view: 1 mark.
(c) On the right of the front view: 1 mark.
Give one rule for hatching a section. (1 mark)
Describe the development of a right cone. (2 marks)
Answer the parts you can. Everything you write is marked together.
Marking guide
(a) A true rule, such as 45 degrees, opposite directions for adjacent parts, or leaving a shaft, bolt, rib or web unhatched: 1 mark.
(b) A sector of a circle: 1 mark. The radius is the slant height: 1 mark.
Topics on this page: Lines and lettering; Geometrical construction; Orthographic projection; Pictorial drawing; Sections and developments.
Notes, practice questions and a mark scheme for topics on the syllabus.
They are written in the style of the WASSCE, the way the examiners ask, and every one comes with the correct answer and a worked explanation. Inside glearn there are also questions taken from past papers.
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