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A Level Art and Design
Revision Guide

What every A level art student has to understand, whatever the exam board and whatever the title: how the course is assessed, the four assessment objectives a page each, the language of art, reading a work, art in context, the written element and the board-set task. Picture-led throughout: a graphite sphere with every zone of light and shadow labelled, one still life in six media with a verdict on each, an annotated sketchbook spread, and a painting read in four steps. Every image was made for this guide, so no artist’s work is reproduced.

£4.99The A Level Art and Design revision guide, 10 pages

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A level Art and Design ends in a timed exam: the supervised session where students make the final piece for the board-set task. But there is no written paper. Every mark, from the first preparatory sketch to that final piece, comes from the work itself, so the guide is about that work: how the marks are made up, what each assessment objective looks like on the page, how to record and annotate so that it earns credit, how to read and write about a work, and how to plan the task the exam board sets. It is preparation rather than revision: nothing to memorise, and everything to check against what the objectives actually ask for. Wording from the DfE and Ofqual is quoted exactly, and everything each board decides for itself is left to your specification, so the guide holds whichever board you are sitting.

It is built around pictures rather than paragraphs. The same still life appears in six media, from a photograph through graphite, charcoal, pen and ink wash and watercolour to oil; a sphere shows the seven zones of light and shadow where they really fall, and every page has worked examples, the misconceptions that cost marks, and a cover-and-test grid. Every picture was made for the guide, so there are no rights questions in using it with a class.

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The DfE’s GCE AS and A level subject content for art and design (DFE-00357-2014) and Ofqual’s subject level conditions (Ofqual/14/5442), quoted word for word; no board’s specification, mark scheme or component names
Intended for
A level art students preparing their portfolio, written element and board-set task, and for teachers to set or use in lessons
Extent
10 pages · 10 sections

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01 How A Level Art Is Assessed p1
02 Developing Ideas p2
03 Exploring and Refining p3
04 Recording What Matters p4
05 The Personal Response p5
06 The Language of Art p6
07 Reading an Artwork p7
08 Art in Context p8
09 The Written Element p9
10 The Board-Set Task p10
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