Points booster course
Extended project qualification
The EPQ provides you with an opportunity to carry out an in-depth study into an area of interest to you. The course allows you a number of options; you are able to decide on a topic area of your own choosing and you are able to choose the format that your project will take from the following:
- a dissertation – a 6,000 word project responding to a question that you have developed
- an artefact – where you will produce an item in response to a brief, along with a 3,000 word development
- a performance – where you will produce a piece in response to a brief, along with a 3,000 word development
- an investigation – a 6,000 word research project, responding to a hypothesis, using 80% primary research
Students are encouraged to develop independent research skills whilst looking into an area of interest specific to them. With only one lesson a week, used as a mentoring session, students will have to organise their time and take responsibility for the completion of each section of their work with limited guidance. Each student will have a different experience of EPQ depending on the type of project they produce and the topic area they choose to cover, making it unique to them.
