A-Level Art

Assessment

Year 12 Component 1: Personal Investigation: 60% The Personal Investigation is thematic, and is a portfolio of outcomes alongside sketchbooks. Students will select 2 themes from personal starting points, such as Decay, Transformation, Movement, Collections, Fragments, Distortion and produce a investigative portfolio from a theme The Personal Investigation consists of: • a major in-depth critical, practical and theoretical investigative project/portfolio and outcome/s based on themes and subject matter that have personal significance; • an extended written element of 1000 words minimum, which may contain images and texts and must clearly relate to practical and theoretical work using an appropriate working vocabulary and specialist terminology. Year 13: Component 2: Externally Set Assignment: 40 % The Externally Set Assignment is released from February in the second year of study and will consist of a series of visual and written stimuli. The Externally Set Assignment unit consists of two parts; Part 1 the preparatory study period, and Part 2: the 15 hour examination of sustained focus work