Art

Qualification

A Level Art 

Awarding Body

AQA

Year 12

An introduction into alternative approaches to drawing and critical studies will help students to develop their investigative, analytical, experimental, practical and intuitive capabilities across a broad range of media. An introduction into personal investigation will allow independence in developing, refining and communicating their own ideas and personal outcomes. 

Year 13

Understanding how research informs practice will allow students to prepare for final assessments alongside learning about the development of the creative process and sustaining an investigation with the purpose to resolve a line of enquiry. 

Assessment

Component 1 - Personal Investigation, including a written element (60% of final grade) that demonstrates their ability to construct a sustained line of reasoning from an initial starting point to a final realisation. 

Component 2 – Externally set assignment which will involve a preparatory period beginning 1 February when students will be provided with an examination paper for each title consisting of eight questions to be used as starting points. Students are required to select one which will go on to be developed during the preparatory time at the end of which students will be expected to complete 15 hours of unaided, supervised examination time; the first 3 hours of which must be consecutive (40% of final grade). In the 15 hours, students must produce a finished outcome or a series of related finished outcomes, informed by the preparatory work.