Drama and Theatre Studies

Assessment

OCR’s A-level in Drama and Theatre has been designed to be a practical, engaging and creative course. It provides pupils with opportunities to interrogate drama and the work of others, to explore a range of drama as a practical art form, and to work independently to create their drama performances making informed artistic choices. The specific units and modes of assessment are shown below: • Practitioners in practice (40%) – Research report, a portfolio and a performance • Exploring and performing texts (20%) – Performance for a visiting examiner • Analysing performance (20%) – Examined component consisting of extended response essay questions • Deconstructing texts for performance (20%) – Examined component consisting of an annotation of an extract from the text and an extended response question