SQA Advanced Higher Music Technology course assessment overview quiz quiz

By two externally marked projects, with no question paper

By a single 3-hour question paper

By internal unit assessments only

By a practical performance exam

95 marks

40 marks

20 marks

135 marks

40 marks

50 marks

95 marks

30 marks

Defining the brief

Planning the production

Evaluating and reflecting

Implementing the production

20 marks

5 marks

50 marks

10 marks

Brief 5, planning 10, implementing 50, mastering 20, evaluation 10

Identifying a topic 5, investigating/analysing/experimenting/synthesising 30, presenting 5

All 40 marks for the written report alone

20 marks research and 20 marks experimentation

Multi-tracked production techniques (a very broad area)

Voice-over recording techniques (a very narrow area)

Advanced mixing techniques in 21st century pop music

The entire history of recorded music

Around 2,500 to 3,000 words, with no penalty

Exactly 1,000 words, strictly enforced

At least 10,000 words

There is a 500-word maximum

Sit a written exam on music theory

Plan, implement, master and evaluate a large-scale creative production

Only analyse other people's recordings

Perform live in front of an examiner

The production project, because it is larger

They are always submitted at exactly the same time

The research project, because its findings can feed the production

Neither has a fixed order

Yes, but they must not share the same submitted evidence

No, they must be on completely unrelated topics

Yes, and the same evidence can be submitted for both

Only if the teacher submits them together

The final master only

The written research report

A live performance recording

The completed audio pre-master with the references used during mixing

Open-book conditions over an extended period under some supervision

A fixed 2-hour closed-book exam

Entirely at home with no supervision

Only during a single supervised day

Implementing is worth no marks

The brief, plan, mastering and evaluation together carry 45 of the production's 95 marks

Implementing is marked internally only

Mastering is optional

Pass or Fail only

A to D

1 to 9

Percentages only