WJEC GCSE Art and Design assessment framework overview quiz quiz

Two units: the Portfolio (60 percent) and the Externally Set Assignment (40 percent)

Three written exams, equally weighted

One unit worth 100 percent

Two units, each worth 50 percent, plus a written exam

Yes, a one-hour written paper

Yes, two written papers

No; it is wholly practical coursework

Only for the Fine Art title

Three objectives, weighted 50, 30 and 20 percent

Four equally weighted objectives, each 25 percent, applied to both units

Four objectives, only in Unit 1

Two objectives, each 50 percent

Present a personal and meaningful response

Record ideas and observations

Refine work by experimenting with media

Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources

Collecting sources versus demonstrating critical understanding of them

Drawing versus painting

First-hand versus secondary recording

Repetition versus refinement

Record observations as work progresses

Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes

Analyse the work of named artists

Present a final outcome only

By producing many pieces in the same medium

By experimenting once and stopping

By experimenting with a purpose, reviewing each attempt, selecting what worked and improving the next

By copying an artist exactly

Refine work through experiment

Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses

Present a personal response

Develop a line of enquiry from sources

Because copied images score more highly

Because recording should be done only at the start

Because first-hand recording shows your own seeing and continuous recording runs through the whole project 'as work progresses'

Because annotation is not required

Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language

Collect sources and pin them up

Experiment with as many media as possible

Record from secondary images

It looks finished, regardless of the development

It resolves the enquiry and grows clearly out of the development that led to it

It copies an exemplar piece

It uses every formal element at least once

As four separate tasks done in a fixed order

As a cyclical record (AO3), develop (AO1), refine (AO2) and realise (AO4) journey that overlaps and loops

Only AO4 matters for the outcome

AO1 and AO2 are for Unit 1 and AO3 and AO4 for Unit 2

By an examiner marking a written script

By adding up marks for each individual piece only

Holistically against mark bands by the centre, moderated by WJEC, and totalled across the two units

By WJEC marking every piece directly

A to E

Pass or fail only

Percentages only

The GCSE 9 to 1 scale

WJEC checks a sample of the centre's marking against the national standard and adjusts if needed

An examiner re-marks every candidate's work from scratch

Students mark each other's work

The work is not checked beyond the centre