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Course Assessment

2 dot points across 2 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What is the SQA Higher Photography project, and how do its planning, development and evaluation sections reward applying your image-making and analytical skills to a topic of your own?

The photography project: the coursework overview - planning, developing and evaluating a personal photography project, presenting a series of 12 images, across planning and investigation (20 marks), development and production (70 marks) and evaluation (10 marks).
An overview of the SQA Higher Photography project, the practical coursework: planning, developing and evaluating a personal photography project and presenting a series of 12 images, across planning (20 marks), development (70 marks) and evaluation (10 marks).
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How is the Higher Photography question paper structured - its two sections, marks and timing - and what does each section require you to do?

The question paper: structure and demands of the externally marked question paper - Section 1 (multiple choice, 10 marks) testing technical knowledge and Section 2 (analysis, 20 marks) analysing an unseen image, 30 marks in 1 hour.
How the SQA Higher Photography question paper is structured: Section 1 (multiple choice, 10 marks) testing technical knowledge and Section 2 (analysis, 20 marks) analysing an unseen image, 30 marks in 1 hour, externally marked.
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