Greek Art and Architecture OCR A2 Classical Civilisation

So how did everyone find it?

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Original post by EnnieR

How did people find the questions ??
I loved that the raging Maenad came up, but struggled to remember vases that were strictly in the second half of the 6th century- didn't mention Exekias or bi-lingual vase which would have been good for the question

Loves the raging maenad too-but wasn't sure about how typical they were of 4 century sculpture
I did the kleophrades painter call of troyas one of the pots in the essay-hopping they will still can't it as 6th century as it's on the boundary.
I didn't do bilingual vaseseither. Probably should have.

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Please excuse my awful typing-I'm on my phone and my keys are sticky.

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Clytemnestra

I completely forgot and stupidly did vases after the 2nd q of 6th i just didn't know what vases came under it and got confused

Reply 64

Im still not entirely sure what bold experiments and lively innovator , or something along those lines mean.

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I thought it went relatively well, I wasn't particularly sure what to write for how typical and they had 2 images which didn't help but I liked the b question as I found lots to write about humanising the gods. The vases essay was pretty straight forward imo I just took innovative and experimental as anything different from before so I mentioned stuff like red figure, anatomy changes/foreshortening, exekias' use of the pot, the patterns in Euphronios. But I've really no idea how it will get marked as the marking seems pretty harsh.

Reply 66

Original post by Millie1497

Yeah - I did Berlin painter's Achilles and Hector, despite it being in really early 5th century- the question seemed geared towards the pioneers and yet it cut off half of them- come on OCR!

Reply 67

Original post by Millie1497

Im still not entirely sure what bold experiments and lively innovator , or something along those lines mean.

"vase- painting, in the second half of the 6th century was a period of bold exploration and lively experimentation"
- from Woodford - which OCR loves to use all the time, and she specialises in vague sweeping judgements, that don't really make lots of sense- I just repeated those words a lot throughout my essay!

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did anyone else think it was unfair of them to say "early classical " for pediments, and "second half of the 6th century" for vases?
The phrasing was like they were trying to trip you up, wanting you to get it wrong!

Reply 69

Original post by Shaughney

Marking seems harsh?
Why do you say that?
For every year?

Reply 70

Original post by Millie1497

Marking seems harsh?
Why do you say that?
For every year?

OCR have reputation for being really hard markers???? I think.
not sure- anyway just hoping that I get an A overall - fingers crossed

What are peoples other module???

Reply 71

Original post by EnnieR

OCR have reputation for being really hard markers???? I think.
not sure- anyway just hoping that I get an A overall - fingers crossed

What are peoples other module???

Oh god that's not good.
I need an A too-have to get 79 ums in each exam for that to happen.
Virgil and the world of the hero.-what module do you have?

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Original post by Millie1497

Marking seems harsh?
Why do you say that?
For every year?

Harsh is probably the wrong word to use. I more meant compared to all the Virgil questions I and those in my class have done, it seems harder to get the marks + looking at marked scripts we've got back. I need an A overall so hoping the examiners are friendly this year :smile:

Reply 73

lukeandrews2002

Our prescribed material only has four 4th Century sculpture; Hermes and Dionysus, Raging Maenad, Eirene and Ploutos and Apoxyomenos; I don't understand how we were expected to answer both of those 25 mark questions with just these? Will the grade boundaries be lowered?

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Original post by lukeandrews2002

Yeah that's part of the reason I found the first question more difficult than those in the past but I sort of just did a comparison between and saying similarities were typical. I mean some bits such as the naturalism and drapery were typical but other than that there wasn't an enormous amount to say. IMO i thought the second question was relatively straightforward, but it does depend on how you've been taught etc. As for grades, I suppose it depends on how everyone did.

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Original post by Millie1497

Oh god that's not good.
I need an A too-have to get 79 ums in each exam for that to happen.
Virgil and the world of the hero.-what module do you have?

Same- Vigil and the World of the hero next week! its my last exam!
I also need to get an A! which I am worried about!

Reply 76

Original post by EnnieR

Same- Vigil and the World of the hero next week! its my last exam!
I also need to get an A! which I am worried about!

Same! I find I'm better at art than Virgil and I have an exam the day before Virgil so it's not like I can consentrate soley on that. Really hopping the grade boundaries will be lowered.
Any ideas what will come up?

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[QUOTE="Shaughney;56837581"]Yeah that's part of the reason I found the first question more difficult than those in the past but I sort of just did a comparison between and saying similarities were typical. I mean some bits such as the naturalism and drapery were typical but other than that there wasn't an enormous amount to say. IMO i thought the second question was relatively straightforward, but it does depend on how you've been taught etc. As for grades, I suppose it depends on how everyone did.[/QUOTE

For the second part of the question I only talked about both statues by Praxiteles but I went into a lot of detail about them. Is that okay? Or do examiners prefer you to talk about more?

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