Examiners Report (2014) for Unit 3 A2 photography.
Important points for you to remember.
- For both the coursework portfolio and the personal investigation, most students were provided with a choice of starting points.
- Some students produced more than one project and many students included additional materials such as work produced in workshops or on gallery visits.
- Successful students provided evidence of a coherent journey, revealing clear engagement with source materials and ideas. Their work was focused and sustained and had a real sense of purpose. Less successful work was often fragmented and poorly executed revealing a lack of understanding and skill.
- However, some students wrote copious notes that often provided little in the way of insights and merely repeated what was already evident in the work.
- Successful students provided evidence of a coherent journey, revealing clear engagement with source materials and ideas. Their work was focused and sustained and had a real sense of purpose. Less successful work was often fragmented and poorly executed revealing a lack of understanding and skill.
- Less successful work lacked evidence of a sustained and focused investigation and there was little evidence of a clear sense of direction and development.