Visual Arts study guides

A guide to the SQA Advanced Higher Art and Design contextual analysis: Section 2 of the portfolio, worth 30 marks, maximum 2,000 words. Covers selecting a work, discussing its related contexts and analysing their impact on its features, and the move from description to analysis.

A guide to the structure and assessment of SQA Advanced Higher Art and Design: the two separate awards (Expressive and Design), the single 100-mark portfolio and its three sections, the skills assessed, how the course differs from Higher, and SCQF level 7.

A guide to the SQA Advanced Higher Art and Design evaluation: Section 3 of the portfolio, worth 6 marks. Covers reflecting on and critically evaluating your creative decisions and the success of your work against your intentions, and the difference between evaluating and narrating.

A guide to the SQA Advanced Higher Art and Design (Design) practical portfolio: a self-directed response to a design brief worth 64 marks. Covers working from a design problem and research through idea generation and development to a resolved solution, and how to evidence it across the A1 sheets.

A guide to the SQA Advanced Higher Art and Design (Expressive) practical portfolio: a self-directed body of expressive artwork worth 64 marks. Covers working from stimulus through investigation and development to resolved outcomes, and how to evidence the journey across the A1 sheets.