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GCSE Drama Devising Log

Hey TSR,
I'm in Year 10 doing AQA Drama GCSE and my teacher's told us to write our devising log over the summer, except she's given us little to no advice on how... I was hoping for some tips on how to write a good and high-scoring devising log and it would be extremely helpful if anyone had any examples. Thank you so much!

Reply 1

Hi! I'm also a Year 10 Drama student writing my devising log/portfolio over the summer. My teacher hasn't really been amazing throughout the process but he did give us this PowerPoint to help write the portfolio. He didn't, however, tell us which exam board we're using which I realise might not be amazingly helpful in this situation lol but I wanted to see if I could still help. I unfortunately don't think I'm using AQA because I've seen other posts here that say that, when they did AQA, devising was 40% of their grade and 2500 max words whereas for me, devising is 60% of my GCSE and I have 2000 words max but I hope that this still helps. If it doesn't and the structure is nothing like what you have then I'm rllyrlly sorry I couldn't help more and I wish you luck 🙂

Portfolio/Devising Log Help

I did quickly google the AQA devising log and it doesn't look like it's the same as what I'm doing but the AQA website seems to have a good guide so I'll add the link here if you haven't already had a look 🙂

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/drama/gcse/drama-8261/scheme-of-assessment
Scroll down to where it says Component 2: Devising and if you keep scrolling there is a section on the Devising Log.

Reply 2

Original post by Anonymous0978
Hi! I'm also a Year 10 Drama student writing my devising log/portfolio over the summer. My teacher hasn't really been amazing throughout the process but he did give us this PowerPoint to help write the portfolio. He didn't, however, tell us which exam board we're using which I realise might not be amazingly helpful in this situation lol but I wanted to see if I could still help. I unfortunately don't think I'm using AQA because I've seen other posts here that say that, when they did AQA, devising was 40% of their grade and 2500 max words whereas for me, devising is 60% of my GCSE and I have 2000 words max but I hope that this still helps. If it doesn't and the structure is nothing like what you have then I'm rllyrlly sorry I couldn't help more and I wish you luck 🙂
Portfolio/Devising Log Help
I did quickly google the AQA devising log and it doesn't look like it's the same as what I'm doing but the AQA website seems to have a good guide so I'll add the link here if you haven't already had a look 🙂
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/drama/gcse/drama-8261/scheme-of-assessment
Scroll down to where it says Component 2: Devising and if you keep scrolling there is a section on the Devising Log.

Hi! I don't think we're doing the same board but the structure seems very similar and the PowerPoint's very helpful! Thank you so much 😀 and good luck with your log too!

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