Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Ultimately, reading a set task in a proper way—using logical
reasoning enables a candidate to translate and interpret
This section contains tasks for revision. They are intended to
meanings of information into expected answers.
benefit learners, trainees, apprentices and undergraduates
Ask the invigilator to provide you with some materials
who find challenges in Paper 5, Craft A (Graphic design).
(sheets of papers or a canvas) needed for the task you have
Most importantly, it provides assistance to learners of art
selected or, which you are about to attempt.
and design preparing for their final year examinations as
For the most part, throughout art and design exams a
well as student teachers doing their first training in teaching
candidate is expected to be creative, attentive, innovative
art.
patient and neat.
Equally, users shall be acquainted with some feasible series
When you are told to start, avoid wasting time by
of steps necessary to prepare for art and design exams.
attempting unfamiliar tasks or questions, materials or
A candidate in the examination room
Entering the examination room starts with checking
candidates to avoid acts of dishonestly such as copying. So
do not enter with any unnecessary material.
In other words, the invigilator will check each candidate to
prove that the absolute person is the one supposed to sit
for the exam.
When you get inside, concentrate and be focused. That
is to say, avoid actions that will cause interruptions such
as unfinished conversations or walking around to borrow
materials you did not carry beforehand.
Inside the examination room, candidates will obtain seats
and they will be provided with some few—necessary tools
and materials. However, it is for your own good to take what
equipment. Choose tasks you have often encountered in
your daily (class room) practices.
And as a result of that, not all materials and tools made
available during examination are extremely necessary. Thus
you will not earn a single extra mark by using each one of
them.
Start sketching within the exact dimensions or size stated
by a set task you have chosen to attempt (this is meant for
paper 5, Art/craft A). Sketching within dimensions given
helps a candidate to finish quickly during the first stage
of working and in every stage of the second session—by
tracing—the sketch shall be transferred to another (final)
paper. Tracing brings very many advantages to a candidate.
Let us make a brief analysis of the benefit:
you think shall be necessary because not a great variety
• It is easy to properly balance your layout on the
of materials and tools are made available for exams by
final paper.
individual schools.
• You will finally obtain a clean work.
Sit in a comfortable place. By minimum standards a
candidate should be able to work without restriction or
interference—able to see all feasible details caused to be
necessary by a task set (or specimen in nature and/or still
• Tracing redirects most of the mistakes to a
sketch-paper alone.
• It reduces the use of an eraser or rubber.
life). For example, shadows and direction (source) of light,
• It provides a clear proof of work that the project
foreground, middle ground and background.
or design created was done by you. Hence,
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Make your tools reachable or accessible. Then, read all
instructions and make sure that you understand each
question (task) carefully. Note down what might be needed
by the task you have chosen to tackle and make sure that
you keep on the same level with the demands specified by
the task you plan to attempt. Do not take a single piece of
information required for granted. Also, remember to write
your name clearly as well as your index number.
the examiner shall be sure to award you with
boundless scores or grades.
In accordance with the Uganda Advanced Certificate of
Education, Regulations and Syllabuses, 2009 – 2012 (Uganda
National Examinations Board, 2008, 226). “Further evidence
of study in the form of notebooks or folders containing
working drawings or photographs and showing sources of
ideas, all of which must be entirely related to a craft offered,
must also be submitted.
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