On this page there are a set of videos that take you through an example sketchbook which is strong in some parts and some respects but which is sadly lacking in others.
Those weaknesses can easily be put right, once you know how the marking is made up and how grades can be improved.
I will be adding more videos to this page as I make the improvements...
This video gives you a quick and dirty guide to the likely grade boundaries - no one can know for sure each year until the exam board computer does the number crunching and works out the exact boundaries but, this is a useful first step in understanding where the lines between the letters fall.
The exams are judged on four complex and long, wordy assessment objectives. This schema presented in this video breaks those long 'AOs' down into creative project targets. These are easy to understand and use in order to achieve a good score and thereby arrive at a strong grade.
This sketchbook has had a lot of effort put into it - there are a lot of drawings, collages and work across a range of media - unfortunately it doesn’t hit the key assessment points and doesn’t score well.
What is wrong with it and how can it be put right?
This sketchbook needs to be evaluated against the key assessment points before it can be improved. So what score would it get right now? See how the scores are made and how the sketchbook is judged. This is the first step to take before making improvements. If you want your sketchbook to do well with the exam board, you have to understand how they will look at it and make judgments.
There are a lot of things that can be done - quite easily to improve the score this sketchbook will achieve...