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A Level Art & Design
OCR

An examination manual for an A-Level Art and Design department. It is about how the qualification is assessed and how students gain marks — not how to teach the subject, which the people reading it already know. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim. Everything after it is about the assessment, and would be true

  1. AO1Develop
  2. AO2Explore and select
  3. AO3Record
  4. AO4Present
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Cover of A Level Art & Design — OCR

Written for this specification. Part One is board-specific and quoted verbatim from OCR's own document; everything after it is about how the assessment works and how students gain marks.

The assessment objectives are worded almost identically across boards and weighted differently, so this book covers OCR only. Check the board you teach before buying.

Written to
OCR A Level Art and Design (H600–H606)
Intended for
For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
Extent
28 pages · 22 sections

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·Contents

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PART ONE — THE QUALIFICATION

01The components and their weightingsp5
02The four assessment objectivesp6
03What changes from GCSEp7
04The written elementp8
05The externally set componentp9

PART TWO — HOW IT IS MARKED

06How the assessment grids workp11
07Standardising so the marks holdp12
08The vocabulary of the criteriap13
09What moderation actually checksp14

PART THREE — LEADING THE SUBJECT

10Department auditp16
11The two years, mappedp17
12Intervention by objectivep18
13Student self-check (tool)p19

PART FOUR — EXAMINATION FOCUS

14What each AO really meansp21
15Understanding mark schemesp22
16Weak to exceptional, comparedp23
17Why students lose marksp24
18Understanding examiner reportsp25
19Question-level analysisp26
20SLT and faculty review questionsp27
21Sources and accuracyp28
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