Drama · GCSE · AQA · £4.99
AQA GCSE Drama
Assessment Objectives
AQA 8261. Forty per cent is a written paper; sixty is non-exam assessment a visiting examiner or a moderator sees once — a devising log worth more on its own than the whole of Component 3, and a performance that is watched, not read. Most of what gets a Drama department right is process and compliance, not exam technique: the live performance statement, the devising log's three stages, casting rules across two components, and what a moderator actually needs on the day.
£4.99The AQA GCSE Drama exam board playbook, 47 pages
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Three components, and who marks each oneOne examination and two practical components. Of the marks, 60% are earned outside the examination hall, and only half of those are for the performances themselves.
- AO1Create and Develop
- AO2Apply Skills
- AO3Knowledge and Understanding
- AO4Analyse and Evaluate
A working manual for a GCSE drama department teaching AQA 8261, written to the specification and checked against it before release.
Ofqual sets the four objectives and the 20/30/30/20 split, so those are identical on every board. What is distinctive about Drama — on any board — is how much of the qualification is not a written exam: a devising log and performance worth 40% between them, and a second performance worth 20% more, both watched or read once by someone other than the classroom teacher. Part One opens on where every mark actually sits, because a department that treats the written paper as the main event is misreading 60% of the qualification.
Page two routes by reader: a classroom teacher, someone new to the department, a head of department and a line manager each get a named place to start. Alongside the usual exam-paper pages — mark schemes, command words, examiner reports — this book gives equal weight to the non-exam assessment as process and compliance: the certification-year timeline, casting and grouping across both practical components, the devising log's three stages and its mark breakdown, what a moderator needs to see, the Component 3 visit day, and the live performance statement as its own compliance item, separate from any mark scheme.
Every claim about this board resolves against this board's own specification before the book is built, including where AQA's own documents disagree with each other — the live performance statement deadline, the play approval deadline, and who may stand in for an absent student are each printed with both AQA sources named, not silently resolved to one answer. Command words, mark tariffs and report findings are all this specification's own, checked against the live AQA 8261 pages rather than a saved copy.
- Written to
- AQA GCSE Drama (8261) specification, with the assessment objective weighting table reconciled against it, DfE's GCSE subject content for Drama (DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's GCSE subject-level conditions and requirements for Drama (Ofqual/17/6198), quoted word for word
- Intended for
- teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
- Extent
- 47 pages · 25 sections
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