AQA A-Level Art and Design: the creative process and the four assessment objectives quiz quiz

Present a personal and meaningful final response that fully realises your stated intentions and connects the elements of the project together

Develop ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources, with analytical and critical understanding

Record ideas, observations and insights that are relevant to your intentions as the project progresses

Explore and select appropriate media, materials and processes, then review and refine your ideas

AO1

AO3

AO2

AO4

Beautiful, every study must be highly polished and finished to a professional standard

Fast, all of the recording must be done as quickly as possible in a single sitting

Digital, the recording must always be produced using specialist editing software

Relevant, recording must connect to your intentions

That it is personal and meaningful and realises your intentions

That it copies a studied artist as convincingly and closely as you possibly can

That it is by far the single largest physical piece in the whole portfolio

That it uses the most expensive and high-quality materials you can obtain

AO1 is worth most, the others share the rest

Each objective is worth 25% of the marks

AO4 is worth half because it is the final piece

They are not weighted, only the final piece counts

Yes, AO1 then AO2 then AO3 then AO4, each finished completely before the next begins

Yes, they must be done in order, but in practice only AO1 and AO4 really matter

No, they overlap and recur continuously throughout a project

No, and in fact only the final AO4 outcome is ever actually assessed by the examiner

Two written examinations sat under timed conditions at the end of the course

A single timed practical examination together with a written critical essay

A coursework portfolio together with a spoken oral presentation to the examiner

The Personal Investigation (60%) and the Externally Set Assignment (40%)

Examiners credit visible development, not just polished final pieces

It simply makes the portfolio longer and more impressive to flick through

It is a strict legal requirement imposed on every art and design course

It completely replaces the need to produce any final outcome at all

Captioning each collected image with the name of the artist who made it

Writing 'Because of this, I will try...' after each piece of research

Printing every collected image in full colour at the highest resolution

Copying the gallery wall text word for word next to each studied artwork

Copy an artwork, then trace it, then print it out, and finally frame the result neatly

Research a chosen artist, write up your findings, present them and then submit the work

Try, evaluate against your intention, decide what to change, then test the improved version

Draw the subject, then paint it, then sculpt it, and finally photograph the finished outcome