WJEC GCSE Art and Design visual language and context overview quiz quiz

Line, tone, colour, shape, form, texture, pattern and composition

Investigation, recording, refinement and presentation

AO1, AO2, AO3 and AO4

Portfolio, preparatory period and sustained focus

The written annotation in a sketchbook

The combined, communicative use of the formal elements through which an artwork conveys meaning

The name of the Externally Set Assignment

A list of art movements

AO1

AO2

AO3

AO4

Texture

Composition

Pattern

Colour

There is no difference

Describing explains how the elements work; analysing lists the subject

Describing says what is in the work; analysing explains how it uses the elements, why, and what it means, and judges it

Analysing is only for photography

Because AO1 rewards developing ideas through critical understanding of sources, so research only counts when it feeds a decision

Because biographies score highly

Because the more images you pin up, the better

Because it is required only in Unit 2

A written exam worth 60 percent

The 60 percent practical unit: a selection of work built up during the course on centre-set themes

A response to a WJEC-set theme made in 10 hours

The smaller of the two units

Because finished pieces are not marked

Because three of the four objectives (develop, refine, record) are about the process, where most of the marks live

Because the journey is only needed in Unit 2

Because moderators ignore outcomes

WJEC sets both

The centre sets both

The centre sets Unit 1; WJEC sets Unit 2

Students set both

Two written exams

A describe task and an analyse task

Two finished outcomes

A preparatory period and a final outcome made in 10 hours of sustained focus

It may not be added to once the 10 hours has begun

It must be redone during the 10 hours

It can be extended at any time

It is marked separately by WJEC examiners

Because the 10 hours is for planning

Because the outcome is made in only 10 hours, so the planning must already be done, and preparation evidences develop, refine and record

Because preparation is not marked

Because WJEC marks only the preparation

Because they replace the final outcome

Because there is a written exam to support

Because there is no written exam, so the work and its presentation are the only evidence of all four objectives

Because only AO4 is assessed

To make pages look decorative

To show the thinking behind the work: the decisions, reviews, insights and intentions that evidence the objectives

To replace observational drawing

To list the names of artists only