QCE Visual Art past exams 2020–2025, by year and topic

The rest of the syllabus

Question-level mapping for these areas is still being verified. Every official paper covering them is in the year table above.

• Unit 3 AOS1 — Developing — Art as knowledge · Personal inquiry questions · Visual language, materials and processes · Contexts and safe practice
• Unit 3 AOS2 — Researching — Reverse chronology · Comparing past and present artworks · Primary and secondary sources · Artists, influences and display
• Unit 3 AOS3 — Reflecting — Evaluation as informed judgment · Artist roles and functions · Audience engagement · Process documentation and justification
• Unit 3 AOS4 — Resolving — Analytical paragraphs · Visual art terminology · Artist statements · Referencing and curatorial decisions
• Unit 3 AOS5 — Key terminology — Constructed and imaginative knowledge · Stimulus and sources · Personal aesthetic · Visual inquiry and responding
• Unit 4 AOS1 — Developing — Art as alternate · Divergent approaches · Calculated changes of medium, scale or site · Collaboration and alternate display
• Unit 4 AOS2 — Researching — Contemporary context · Appropriation and reconceptualisation · New technologies · Reverse chronology in contemporary practice
• Unit 4 AOS3 — Reflecting — Audience expectations · Alternate meaning · Evaluating a body of work · Audience readings and justification
• Unit 4 AOS4 — Resolving — Comparative essay structure · Visual language in existing work · Referencing divergent approaches · Real or virtual display
• Unit 4 AOS5 — Key terminology — Contemporary context · Evolve · Unit 4 terminology in continuity with Units 1–3