Visual Arts study guides

An overview of critical and contextual studies in AQA GCSE Art and Design: how to analyse artists and artworks, understand art movements and context, build a visual vocabulary, and use galleries and research to support your own work.

An overview of the core media and techniques in AQA GCSE Art and Design: drawing and painting, printmaking, photography and three-dimensional and mixed media, and how building skill in each supports the four assessment objectives.

An overview of the creative process in AQA GCSE Art and Design: how the four assessment objectives (developing ideas, refining with media, recording, and presenting a personal response) work together to drive a project from idea to outcome.

An overview of how AQA GCSE Art and Design is assessed: the Component 1 portfolio (60%), the Component 2 Externally Set Assignment (40%) with its 10-hour supervised exam, and how the sketchbook and annotation evidence all four objectives.

An overview of how AQA GCSE Art and Design is structured and marked: the six endorsed titles (8201 to 8206) and their disciplines, and the marking model of 96 marks per component split equally across the four assessment objectives, internally marked and externally moderated.