This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams and submit all their non-exam assessment at the end of the course.
2.1 Subject content
Core content
- Performance
- Choreography
- Dance appreciation
2.2 Assessments
Students must complete both assessment components.
| Component 1: Performance and choreography |
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What's assessed Performance - Set phrases through a solo performance (approximately one minute in duration)
- Duet/trio performance ( three minutes in a dance which is a maximum of five minutes in duration)
Choreography - Solo or group choreography – a solo ( two to two and a half minutes) or a group dance for two to five dancers ( three to three and a half minutes)
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How it's assessed Internally marked and externally moderated Performance Choreography Total component 60% Non-exam assessment (NEA) marked by the centre and moderated by AQA. |
| Component 2: Dance appreciation |
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What's assessed - Knowledge and understanding of choreographic processes and performing skills
- Critical appreciation of own work
- Critical appreciation of professional works
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How it's assessed - 40% of GCSE
- Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes
- 80 marks
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Questions Based on students' own practice in performance and choreography and the GCSE Dance anthology. |
