Fashion and design: Life in the UK test revision

Chippendale is the earliest of the handbook's designers, working in the 18th century. His field was furniture. The test likes to match each designer to their product: Chippendale to furniture, Clarice Cliff to Art Deco ceramics and Terence Conran to interiors. The wrong answers here are exactly those other fields.

Why it matters: Designer-to-product matching is a standard question, and the three designers are offered as each other's wrong answers.

Memory hook: Chippendale chipped and shaped wood: furniture in the 1700s.

Official handbook: Chapter 4, section 4.2, page 48

Clarice Cliff is the ceramics designer in the handbook's short list of great British designers. Her work was in the Art Deco style. Questions ask either what she made or which style she worked in. Keep her apart from Chippendale, who made furniture, and Conran, who designed interiors in the 20th century.

Why it matters: 'Art Deco' is the only style label the handbook attaches to a designer, so it gets asked.

Memory hook: Clarice Cliff: C-C for Ceramics in the Deco style.

Official handbook: Chapter 4, section 4.2, page 48

Conran completes the handbook's trio of designers. He worked in the 20th century as an interior designer. Because the three designers span furniture, ceramics and interiors, the test can ask any of them and use the other fields as wrong answers. Conran is the most recent and the one focused on interiors.

Why it matters: The century and the field are both testable, and the other designers' products are the wrong answers.

Memory hook: Conran, contemporary, inside the room: 20th-century interiors.

Official handbook: Chapter 4, section 4.2, page 48

The handbook names three recent fashion designers: Mary Quant, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood. They are separate from the earlier designers of furniture, ceramics and interiors. A question might ask which name is a fashion designer, or which three are grouped together. All three should be learned as a set.

Why it matters: Fashion designers are often mixed with the other designers in profession-matching questions.

Memory hook: Q-M-W: Quant, McQueen, Westwood. Quite Modern Wardrobes.

Official handbook: Chapter 4, section 4.2, page 48