Eduqas A-Level Art and Design developing and presenting work overview quiz quiz

A single finished painting submitted on its own as the complete response to the set theme

A list of the art materials and equipment a candidate intends to use over the whole project

The focused, connected thread that runs through a project from starting point to outcome

A particular type of timed examination paper sat under controlled conditions at the end

Responding to every aspect of the theme at once

Choosing a final outcome immediately

Copying an artist

Narrowing it to a focused, personal question

It lets the work go deep and develop, which is the sustained, focused investigation the objectives reward

It is simply a much quicker route to a finished project than working broadly across the whole theme

It needs noticeably fewer sketchbook pages to be filled in before the final outcome can be made and submitted

It avoids any need to study, reference or respond to the work of other established artists at all

Drawing, painting and printmaking carried out across the sketchbook

Stalling, repetition and premature resolution

Annotation, evaluation and the final presentation of the portfolio

The three assessment objectives known as AO1, AO2 and AO3

They are essentially the same activity, and moderators do not distinguish between them at all

Repetition of a successful piece is always better than trying something new and uncertain instead

Development moves the enquiry forward; repetition re-makes a piece and advances nothing

Development simply means carefully copying an existing successful piece of work over again

It should be completely unrelated to the project and deliberately surprising to the moderator

It should faithfully copy the finished outcome of one of the artists studied during the project

It should ignore all of the earlier development work and stand entirely on its own as a fresh idea

It should be the culmination of the enquiry, realising the project's intentions

By restating intentions, gathering the threads of the enquiry, and deciding composition, media and process

By abandoning the enquiry and starting a completely new idea that has not been investigated before

By choosing all of the materials and the whole composition entirely at random just before making the final piece

By skipping the planning stage entirely and simply beginning the final outcome straight away

It is purely decoration that makes the sketchbook pages look more attractive to a moderator

It is communication: a moderator can only reward a journey they can follow

It can stand in place of the actual artwork when there is not enough finished work to show

It is not assessed at all and has no bearing whatsoever on the final marks awarded

The processes of drawing, painting and printmaking

The first three assessment objectives, AO1, AO2 and AO3

Sequencing, layout and selection

The formal elements of colour, tone and line in a piece

There is no real difference between describing and critically evaluating a piece of work in annotation

Critical evaluation is simply a shorter and more condensed version of describing what the work shows

Plain description is always more valuable than evaluation, since it records exactly what is on the page

Description labels what the work is; evaluation judges it against intentions and decides the next step

So reflection drives development, feeding the following work and sustaining the line of enquiry

Simply to make the written annotation on the page noticeably longer and more detailed than before

In order to describe the work that has already been completed in fuller and richer detail

It should not end with a next step; an effective evaluation ought only to praise what worked well

AO1

AO3

AO2

AO4