Junior Certificate - examination requirements for PROJECT & marking scheme.

Examination Requirements

 The 300 marks for this project are allocated as follows:

The life sketching is 50marks and still life drawing exam is 50marks.

 75 marks – PREPARATION: research and investigation using a variety of media

 75 marks – DEVELOPMENT: studies showing individual creative steps

 120 marks – REALISATION: the completed 2D and 3D works

 30 marks – SUPPORT STUDIES: visual and written material relating to the project.

1. Your PREPARATION STUDIES are a very important part of your project. You are asked to

 spend time carefully considering the themes on the examination paper before making your choice.

 Choose a theme that best suits your interests. You should interpret the theme in a way that is

 inventive and relevant. You must be able to research the subject matter of your theme thoroughly

 in a visual way, for example: by drawing, making colour studies, using photography, making three-

 dimensional studies and other ways of recording what you see and imagine. In doing this you will

 produce a collection of images and research ideas which you must then develop. You must use

 your own observed and / or imagined images. You should not depend on copying or tracing

 images.

2. DEVELOPMENT involves exploring, considering and reconsidering the ideas you have produced

 in your Preparation Studies in new and different ways as your work progresses. You must

 regularly review the work you have done in order to identify its successes and failures to help you

 to decide what to do next. Your Development should show how your ideas and techniques

 progress.

3. The REALISATION stage of your Project follows on from your Preparation Studies and

 Development, where you make your finished 2D and 3D works. Realisation involves identifying

 what to make and choosing appropriate materials and techniques to carry out your plan to the

 highest possible standard. You must do this in the school under the supervision of your teacher and

 the work must NOT be removed from the school before the examination is marked in June.

4. Your SUPPORT STUDIES should reflect your project. By studying work from both

 past and present you will understand and appreciate how artists, craftworkers and

 designers work with particular themes and techniques. Support Studies can be in visual

 and written format and should relate to, and reinforce, the processes undertaken in the

 2D, the 3D and Option areas of your project.