Hey everyone,
I got back my art coursework results and was 1 mark into an 8 but I'm not happy
An 8 is so AMAZING and I am reallyyyy happy, but disappointed? I spent all my time and effort into art, and my teacher told me I could get a 9, but got my results back and I scraped an 8. I know an 8 is amazing and genuinely am pleased, but I work really hard. It needs a lot of backstory:
We did 4 books in 3 years and they marked them like this:
- Art history (year 9), natural forms (year 10), human figure (end year 10/11)- 74/96
- Elements (year 11)- 78/96
My school is all girls selective school, meaning girls are crazy talented in art. (4 girls out of our class got a 9) But i think i should have got one. It sounds vain but wait…
My art history was really done in year 10, since I did nothing year 9 and caught up like 80 percent in year 10, so the quality was good and it was different from everyone elses. Im gonna be annoying and dare say it was best in class, since nobody cared out their art history.
Natural forms was strong, but everyone tried hard but it was one of the best ones since I did a lot too.
My human figure was not as good… I think I did 4 researches because I mixed it up but wanted all 4 in (my own fault), but did leonardo da vinci page which I hate looking at (didn’t finish the observational) ,but the rest is decent. I didn’t do much development for my final piece, only a a3 biro and a4 drawing and a conclusion. My final piece was decent and fitted well with my book. The presentation wasn’t strong, but the drawings were good.
For the elements book (main exam book), I was really unhappy as presentation was shite and ended up hating my final piece. So 78 is SICK.
But that’s the thing- I thought I would then do amazing in my other coursework because if my **** one did well, why wouldn’t my ah and nf? I thought I would get a 9 off of just them. But, the 96 marks for coursework were more weighted on the human figure, but I thought I would get a high 8 minimum.
A girl who cried 4 times got 10 more marks than me. She would cry every time miss gave her results back and she didn’t get 9. Her human figure book was stronger since she did 2 a1 final pieces. But my ah and nf were a lot stronger, and I feel like it was very biased. Our talent is Samish, I think I am stronger in pencil and biro but she is sick in acrylic, which is what gets the high marks. Her presentation was better in human figure, but we had same skills in drawing.
So do you think I am being reasonable in me being mad? Because I don’t know what to do as we are getting moderated on the 3rd of may (so straight after we get back.) Should I finish my da vinci observational just in case if it does get moderated? But it will take me 3-4 hours and I have revision to do. I feel it is such a waste of time if there’s no guarantee I will get a 9 from the examiner or if they will even look at it.
Ps. I am not bigging myself up lol. Girls were shocked I didn’t get a 9 and so was I. Kind of annoying for a teacher to get your hopes up and then let you down.
8 is amazing, but its annoying to hear you should or could have got a 9. It is my strongest subject and I wanna do it for a levels. I would post pics but don’t want to be found out from any friends or teachers cos I sound big-headed.
Lol i spent so long typing this out please reply advice.