Unit 1: Sustained Investigation
2-D Art & Design · Unit 1 · Paper 1

Sustained Investigation unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 50 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted
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Relief printing

2

Inquiry that names a visual problem

3

Practice, experimentation, revision

4

Writing that names evidence

5

Working in a limited palette

6

Acrylic vs oil in practice

7

Digital layering and version history

8

Documenting a series side by side

9

Revision that is visible

10

Generative AI is not permitted for artwork

11

Documenting color decisions

12

The commonest written-response failure

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Cyanotype and alternative photographic processes

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Photographing glossy or textured surfaces

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Monotype

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Writing about failure

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

A 2-D Art and Design Sustained Investigation is scored on evidence of practice, experimentation, and revision. A student says: "I made fifteen finished pieces and none of them failed, so my investigation went well."

Explain why the absence of failure is not evidence of a strong investigation.

Define practice, experimentation, and revision as the terms are used here, and distinguish revision from correction.

Describe ONE specific work you would include precisely because it did not succeed, and explain what a reader would learn from it.

Explain how the written evidence should treat a work that failed.

Explain why fifteen equally resolved works can be weaker evidence than twelve resolved works and three that visibly did not settle.

Describe one 2-D compositional variable that could be tested systematically across a body of work.

Explain how a reader distinguishes deliberate experimentation from inconsistency.