Year 7 Exam Art
Year 7 Exam Art
INSTRUCTIONS.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, admission number and stream.
Answer all questions.
Read the questions carefully to make sure you know what you are being asked to do.
Underline or highlight any key words to help focus your answer.
Remember that talking is not allowed at any time in the exam room.
Do not turn over the exam paper until told to do so.
Keep your eyes on your own paper, remember copying is CHEATING.
INFORMATION.
This paper contains the Externally Set Assignment for the following:
Candidate guidance
i) Your teacher will be able to teach, guide and support you as you prepare your personal
response. You may also complete preparatory work without direct supervision.
ii) The preparatory study period begins when you receive this paper and continues up until
the start of the period of sustained focus.
iii) You should develop your response to the theme in a personal and creative way,
developing, refining and recording your ideas towards the final outcome(s).
iv) The period of sustained focus consists of ten hours working under supervised
examination conditions in an appropriate studio setting.
v) Teachers will be able to support you with matters such as working space, materials and
equipment. However, teachers will not be able to give you feedback about your work in
progress or suggest how you might improve or develop your outcome(s).
vi) During the ten-hour period of sustained focus, you will produce your final outcome(s),
based on your preparatory studies, in response to the internally Set Assignment theme.
vii) The period of sustained focus may take place over more than one session. viii) You
will not be able to access any of your work outside of these sessions.
ix) Once the ten-hour supervised sustained focus period has ended, you will not be able to
add to or alter any of your work.
x) Your teacher will inform you of the dates and times when you will complete your ten
hours of unaided work for the internally Set Assignment.
xi) Exploring and developing the theme Your work for this internally Set Assignment should
be based on the theme given in this paper.
Suggested starting points the starting points on the following pages are suggestions to help you
think about possible ideas, ways of working and your personal creative approach to this term’s
theme.
You should read through the whole paper before you start your preparatory work, as any section
may provide you with ideas.
You may prefer to use a starting point of your own and explore and respond to other artists and
references to help you develop your response to the theme ‘landscapes’.
Examples of landscapes