Study Skills

Course summary

The EPQ provides a chance for you to undertake your own independent project on a topic of your choice: perhaps an extension of one of your A Level subjects or perhaps something related to your university ambitions. The finished project can be a written research report (c.5000 words) or an ‘artefact’ which is accompanied by a short research report (c.1500 words). This could be a model, an experiment, a performance, a piece of art, a community project, a movie, or even an event. The choice and freedom is yours! You receive marks for the way your project is managed, the research you carry out, as well as your product. The EPQ is a stand-alone qualification that offers UCAS points equal to an AS qualification, up to grade A* (28 UCAS points).