OCR GCSE Art and Design the creative process and portfolio overview quiz quiz

40% and 80 marks

50% and 100 marks

60% and 120 marks

100% and 200 marks

All 120 marks are given to the final outcome and none to the development

60 marks for AO1 and 60 marks for AO4, with nothing at all for AO2 or AO3

By the number of pages submitted, so a thicker folder always scores higher

Equally across the four objectives, 30 marks each

No, the assessment is entirely practical coursework

Yes, there is a 2-hour written paper sat under exam conditions at the end

Yes, a written paper on art history covering named movements and artists

Only for the Critical and Contextual Studies title, not the main Art course

Polishing and refining the single final piece until it is completely finished and presentable

Opening up a starting point with associations, sources and quick experiments to find directions

Mounting and arranging the completed work neatly onto the presentation sheets ready for moderation

Writing the final evaluation that judges the outcome against the original stated intention

A simple list of all the materials and media you intend to use across the whole project

The mark scheme the moderator uses when awarding the marks for each assessment objective

A focused thread the project pursues from starting point to outcome, visible on the page

The final resolved outcome only, with none of the earlier development work counting at all

Generating ideas is banned under AO1, so any divergent opening stage will lose you marks

Developing ideas is simply faster to do than generating them, leaving more time for AO4

Generating ideas only applies to photography projects and not to any other media at all

AO1 rewards developing ideas through sustained investigation, not a single research page

Investigate (AO1), explore and refine media (AO2), record first-hand (AO3), resolve an outcome (AO4)

Sketch the subject, paint the final piece, frame the result and then sell it to a buyer

Plan the project, draft the writing, edit the annotation and then publish the finished folder online

Only investigate the sources and resolve the outcome, with no media work or first-hand recording

It is simply a rule about keeping pages neat and tidy, and has nothing to do with the marks

A moderator credits what they can follow; dating shows the sequence and annotation shows the reasoning

To make the folder look thicker and more impressive, since a fuller folder always scores higher

Only the final resolved piece truly needs dating, because the earlier development work is never credited

Include absolutely everything you made, since leaving any page out can only ever lose marks

Include only the finished final pieces and remove all the development and experimentation work

Curate to the work that best evidences each objective and cut repetitive or weak pages

Choose the pages purely by which ones are the most colourful and eye-catching to look at first

Heavy decorative borders and bubble lettering should dominate each page and frame the artwork

Presentation does not matter at all, and a moderator only ever looks at the artwork itself

The work should be partly hidden behind several layers of decoration so the page looks busier and fuller

Presentation serves the work: clean layout and mounting so the art is read and the journey is clear

Descriptive restates what the image shows; reflective records decisions, reasons and next steps

There is no real difference between the two, and either kind earns exactly the same marks

Reflective annotation is simply longer than descriptive annotation, and length is what scores

Descriptive annotation is only ever used for photography work, while reflective is used for drawing

How long the finished outcome took you to make from the first idea to the very last mark

The intention you set, judging what works and what falls short with reasons

Whether your teacher personally liked the piece when they saw the finished version of it

The sheer number of different materials and media you managed to use across the whole piece