Edexcel GCSE Art and Design building a portfolio overview quiz quiz

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100 percent

25 percent

Absolutely everything you ever made during the whole course, with nothing left out at all

Only the finished final pieces, with none of the supporting development work included

A selection of your strongest work that together covers all four objectives

Only your artist research pages, without any of your own practical work

To make the whole portfolio shorter for no real reason at all

Editing is not allowed, so every single page must always be kept

Weak work actually scores you extra marks, so it is always best to keep it in

Including everything dilutes the portfolio and hides the development

It lets the moderator follow the line of enquiry and find the evidence for each objective

It completely replaces the quality of the actual artwork when the marks are decided

It does not matter in the slightest to a moderator and can be ignored when you submit the work

It is the only thing that is ever actually marked, so the artwork itself is irrelevant

Yes, presentation is everything and the artwork barely matters at all

No, presentation supports the quality but does not replace it

Yes, a tidy but weak portfolio will always score in the very top band

Presentation is completely ignored by moderators when they award the marks

A showcase of only your finished drawings

A simple list of the materials you used

The record of the whole creative journey

A book of quizzes about famous artists

Only neat, tidy and carefully finished observational drawings and absolutely nothing more

Only the single final piece and none of the development work that led up to it at all

Nothing else at all beyond the careful recording work that you have already done so far

Research, experiments, recording and planning toward outcomes (all four objectives)

They show the thinking, experimentation and development that polished pages hide

They are only there to fill empty space when you do not have enough finished work

They are simply mistakes that should be removed before the portfolio is handed in

They are not allowed in the sketchbook and will lose you marks if a moderator sees them

It simply labels each page with a title and the date that it was first made

Explains decisions and points forward, connecting the pages into a line of enquiry

It is purely decoration that is only there to make each page look prettier and more colourful

It just counts up the pages so that you can check you have actually done enough work overall

Simply by counting up how many pages it contains

By the class teacher alone, with no outside checks whatsoever

Holistically against the grid, and externally moderated by Pearson

On a basic pass or fail basis, with no marks or bands awarded at all

It simply looks a great deal messier and far less tidy than a neat book of finished drawings

It always has far fewer pages overall, so a moderator has rather less to look through in total

It needs no written annotation at all, which saves you a very great deal of valuable writing time

Finished drawings mainly evidence AO3, while process pages evidence all four objectives

To show the journey from starting point through research and experiments to the outcome

In a completely random order, with the pages just shuffled however they happen to fall

With the final pieces placed first and none of the development work shown anywhere at all

Strictly in alphabetical order by the title you have given to each individual piece of work