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Four new plays bring greater diversity to AQA drama qualifications

We’re giving GCSE and A-level Drama students access to a more diverse range of texts by adding four new plays by writers from ethnic minority backgrounds to our courses.

Four new plays bring greater diversity to AQA drama qualifications

We’re giving GCSE and A-level Drama students access to a more diverse range of texts by adding four new plays by writers from ethnic minority backgrounds to our courses.

Dance, drama and music: performance duration declaration form for 2022

For 2022, you'll need to complete our performance duration declaration form for Dance, Drama and Music qualifications.

Changes to 2021 exams for GCSE Drama

Changes for 2021 exams for GCSE Drama (8261)

Changes to 2021 exams for AS and A-level Drama and Theatre

Changes for 2021 exams for AS (7261) and A-level (7262) Drama and Theatre

Changes to summer 2021 question papers and updated SAMs

We’ve made a minor change to the wording in Section B Question 9.1 (the 4-mark question on Noughts and Crosses) for our GCSE Drama (8261/W) summer 2021 question paper.

Updated: Question papers, mark schemes and reports on the exam: what’s available when

We’re changing the date of when we publish question papers, mark schemes and reports on the exam on our website. This is now applicable to all qualifications.

Question papers, mark schemes and reports on the exam: what’s available when

We’re changing the date of when we publish our AS, A-level and GCSE question papers, mark schemes and reports on the exam on our website.

GCSE Drama updated set plays for first teaching in 2020

We’re replacing three of our set plays for GCSE Drama (8261). The change will affect first teaching in September 2020 with exams taking place in summer 2022.

Updates to awarding marks to performances – summer 2019

Ofqual changes for GCSE and A-level Music and Dance mean that for summer 2019 and onwards, we’re removing the requirement to award zero marks for performances in both subjects that do not reach the minimum (and/or maximum for dance) time