Writing and talking about art with evidence: describing, analysing, interpreting and judging.
These are the statements the Visual Arts - Year 7 syllabus makes about Critical and Historical Study. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Description before interpretation - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Visual evidence and how to cite it - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Analysing technique and composition - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Interpreting subject matter - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Judging a work against intention - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Art historical context and change over time - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Reading an exhibition or catalogue essay - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Writing a critical paragraph - Critical and Historical Study, Year 7.
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Critical and Historical Study are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Visual Arts - Year 7 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Critical and Historical Study is module 3 of 3 in Visual Arts - Year 7. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Visual Arts - Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.