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GCSE Art & Design: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel — a separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board's specification word for word, and opens at its first fifteen pages here.

The assessment objectives

  1. AO1 Develop Investigate sources and let them change the work
  2. AO2 Refine Experiment, then decide — and show the deciding
  3. AO3 Record Draw and annotate while the thinking is happening
  4. AO4 Present Resolve an intention the student actually owns

Read off the GCSE Art & Design specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 45 pages each · first 15 pages open

Cover of GCSE Art & Design — AQA

Art & Design · GCSE · AQA £4.99

GCSE Art & Design — AQA

AQA only — AQA GCSE Art and Design (8201–8206). Every specification statement is quoted verbatim and sourced — nothing here is paraphrased from memory or invented.

  1. AO1 Develop Investigate sources and let them change the work
  2. AO2 Refine Experiment, then decide — and show the deciding
  3. AO3 Record Draw and annotate while the thinking is happening
  4. AO4 Present Resolve an intention the student actually owns

AQA GCSE Art and Design (8201–8206) · 45 pages, 0 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Cover of GCSE Art & Design — OCR

Art & Design · GCSE · OCR £4.99

GCSE Art & Design — OCR

OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) Art and Design (J170–J176). Every specification statement is quoted verbatim and sourced — nothing here is paraphrased from memory or invented.

  1. AO1 Develop Investigate sources and let them change the work
  2. AO2 Refine Experiment, then decide — and show the deciding
  3. AO3 Record Draw and annotate while the thinking is happening
  4. AO4 Present Resolve an intention the student actually owns

OCR GCSE (9–1) Art and Design (J170–J176) · 45 pages, 0 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Cover of GCSE Art & Design — Pearson Edexcel

Art & Design · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

GCSE Art & Design — Pearson Edexcel

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Art and Design. Every specification statement is quoted verbatim and sourced — nothing here is paraphrased from memory or invented.

  1. AO1 Develop Investigate sources and let them change the work
  2. AO2 Refine Experiment, then decide — and show the deciding
  3. AO3 Record Draw and annotate while the thinking is happening
  4. AO4 Present Resolve an intention the student actually owns

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Art and Design · 45 pages, 0 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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