Extended Project Qualification (Supplementary course)

Course summary

By taking responsibility for the choice, design and decision making of an individual project (or an individual role in a group project) students: • become more critical, reflective and independent learners • develop and apply decision-making and problem-solving skills • increase their planning, research, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and presentation skills • learn to apply technologies confidently • demonstrate creativity, initiative and enterprise. Undertaking an EPQ can also deliver other benefits for students, such as: • improved A Level performance for students taking EPQ • increasing student motivation by allowing them to study topics of personal interest • enabling students to apply their new skills to other areas of study.