Drama and Theatre Studies

Assessment

How will you be assessed? Two coursework pieces make up 60% of the coursework marks. The first is the creation, performance and written progress report of a piece of original drama (30%). This is marked out of 60. 20 marks are achieved through the performance and 40 marks awarded to the working notebook, describing the process of devising. The second coursework element (also worth 30%) focuses on exploration of text. Students must learn how to contribute to text- based drama in a live theatre context for an audience. They explore practically three performance extracts and ultimately perform or create a realised design for one of these key extracts, then performed to an external examiner and worth 40 marks. They analyse and evaluate their interpretation of all three key extracts through a Reflective Report (worth 20 marks). Lastly, Drama and Theatre A Level students will sit a three-hour open book written exam worth 80 marks (40% of A Level) which questions their knowledge on two set texts and a live performance seen.