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GCSE Drama: how AQA marks it

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The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically across exam boards. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. This book quotes AQA’s own specification word for word, and the first 8 pages are open to read here.

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The assessment objectives

  1. AO1 Create and Develop
  2. AO2 Apply Skills
  3. AO3 Knowledge and Understanding
  4. AO4 Analyse and Evaluate

Read off the GCSE Drama 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.

1 book, one per board

GCSE · 47 pages each · the first 8 pages open

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AQA GCSE Drama Assessment Objectives — Exam Preparation

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.

  1. AO1 Create and Develop
  2. AO2 Apply Skills
  3. AO3 Knowledge and Understanding
  4. AO4 Analyse and Evaluate

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 · 47 pages, 25 sections ·For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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