ART GCSE
HANDBOOK
Unleash your creative potential
Follows
Butterfly Effect
AQA
Specification
Unleash your creative potential
, Welcome to your handbook!
B.E
This handbook is designed to help guide you smoothly through
building your portfolio. It's filled with tips and techniques you
can use on each of your pages. I reccomend having this easily
to hand eg tucked into your art folder or a saved in a safe
place on your phone.
Content
1. Specification at a glance
2. Resources, Materials & more
3. Cover Page & Choosing your subject
4. Artist Research: Key to a successful research page
5. Artist Research: Practice Assessing 1
6. Artist Research: Practice Assessing 2
7. Artist Research: How to Annotate
8. Check list: Artist Research
9. Key words & Phrases to use
10. Portfolio: How to fill your pages & self asess
11. My Top Tips & things to remember
12. Check list: Make your own
13. My Notes
, Specification
Portfolio
at a glance Your Portfolio is worth
60% of your overall marks.
It is important to have an
You have no time limit
idea of what you’re
and can score up to 96
working towards and
marks.
what you are being
You start your portfolio
assessed on. Knowing
at the beginning of Year
this will help you review
10.
your work independently
or with a teacher.
Externally set
assignment
Your 96 marks
Your exam is worth 40% of
are made up of
your overall marks.
the following You have prep time followed
assessment by 10 hours of supervised
objectives: time and can score up to 96
marks.
This is done at the end of
AO1 Developed Year 11.
ideas linked to
artists. Each Asessemnt
objective is marked
AO2 Refine ideas out of 20. Below is a
and experiment with list of how your marks
will turn into grades.
resources, media,
materials.
8-9 80-74
7 73-68
AO3 Record ideas
and observations 5-6 67-56
4 55-45
AO4 Make a
3 44-37
personal and
meaning response Anything lower than a 3
isn't a pass so aim for
B.E
the highest you can - you
can do it!
HANDBOOK
Unleash your creative potential
Follows
Butterfly Effect
AQA
Specification
Unleash your creative potential
, Welcome to your handbook!
B.E
This handbook is designed to help guide you smoothly through
building your portfolio. It's filled with tips and techniques you
can use on each of your pages. I reccomend having this easily
to hand eg tucked into your art folder or a saved in a safe
place on your phone.
Content
1. Specification at a glance
2. Resources, Materials & more
3. Cover Page & Choosing your subject
4. Artist Research: Key to a successful research page
5. Artist Research: Practice Assessing 1
6. Artist Research: Practice Assessing 2
7. Artist Research: How to Annotate
8. Check list: Artist Research
9. Key words & Phrases to use
10. Portfolio: How to fill your pages & self asess
11. My Top Tips & things to remember
12. Check list: Make your own
13. My Notes
, Specification
Portfolio
at a glance Your Portfolio is worth
60% of your overall marks.
It is important to have an
You have no time limit
idea of what you’re
and can score up to 96
working towards and
marks.
what you are being
You start your portfolio
assessed on. Knowing
at the beginning of Year
this will help you review
10.
your work independently
or with a teacher.
Externally set
assignment
Your 96 marks
Your exam is worth 40% of
are made up of
your overall marks.
the following You have prep time followed
assessment by 10 hours of supervised
objectives: time and can score up to 96
marks.
This is done at the end of
AO1 Developed Year 11.
ideas linked to
artists. Each Asessemnt
objective is marked
AO2 Refine ideas out of 20. Below is a
and experiment with list of how your marks
will turn into grades.
resources, media,
materials.
8-9 80-74
7 73-68
AO3 Record ideas
and observations 5-6 67-56
4 55-45
AO4 Make a
3 44-37
personal and
meaning response Anything lower than a 3
isn't a pass so aim for
B.E
the highest you can - you
can do it!
