Fine Art



GCSE Fine Art - 2012

Welcome to your final GCSE Fine Art exam paper. Before you go any further;

Read the paper carefully. Before you start work, make sure you understand all the information.

Choose one of the starting points and produce a personal response.

You have a preparatory period to research, investigate and develop your ideas. Your work during this period could be in sketchbooks, journals, design sheets, studies or in any other appropriate form of preparation.

This project will culminate in a ten hour final examination on the 23rd and 24th of April.

The work submitted for this examination must be your own unaided work.

You must hand in your personal response outcome(s) and the preparatory work at the end of the examination.


Information

Your work will be marked out of 80 (a maximum of 20 for each of the 4 assessment objectives).

All your work, including the work done during the preparatory period , will be marked.

Advice

You should discuss your ideas with your teacher before deciding on your starting point.

You should make sure that any materials or equipment which you might need are available before you start the examination sessions.

You may take all your preparatory work into the examination sessions.

You should when developing your personal response, make appropriate connections with other sources such as the work of artists, craftspeople, designers and/or photographers.

You may work on further supporting studies until you have completed your personal response outcome(s).

You may use any appropriate fine art medium, method(s) and materials, unless the question states otherwise.