Eduqas GCSE Art and Design the externally set assignment overview quiz quiz

The Portfolio, 60 percent

The Externally Set Assignment, 48 marks and 40 percent

A written exam, 40 percent

The personal study, 25 percent

In September of the first year

From early January of the final year

On the morning of the supervised exam

It is never released; the centre sets it

5 hours

10 hours of sustained focus

15 hours

2 hours

AO4 only

AO1, AO2 and AO3

None; it is not assessed

AO2 and AO4

Whichever sounds most appealing

Traction: strong links to sources to analyse, subjects to record, and a process the candidate works well in

The shortest title

Whatever the teacher chose last year

It must be hidden

It may be referred to but cannot be amended or further developed, and the outcome is made unaided

It can be redrawn from scratch

It must be redone in the supervised time

They are identical

The preparatory period is free, developmental time; the supervised period is fixed, making-only time

The supervised period is for research

The preparatory period is supervised

It is optional

The 10 hours is making-only and the preparation is fixed, so there is no time to decide during it

Plans are marked separately

To impress the moderator

Work until it is done with no plan

As a staged timeline (lay in, build, resolve), with the outcome scaled to working speed and a finishing session protected

Spend most of it deciding

Leave the last session empty

It is a presentation rule only

AO4 rewards realising the developed intention, so an outcome from a new idea realises no intention and breaks coherence

The moderator chooses the outcome

Connected outcomes are quicker to make

By hiding the preparatory work

By presenting the outcome alongside the studies, experiments and developed plan that led to it, and annotating the link

By writing an essay only

It does not need to be visible

Size and neatness only

A personal, meaningful response that realises the developed intention and shows control of visual language

Copying an artist accurately

The number of preparatory pages