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  • 26-04-2009 11:45am
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    goose1
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭


    OK its impossible to learn absolutely everything on the course so what should you learn to guarantee a question? I know Romanesque and Gothic come up most years, what about Bronze Age this year? What else?


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    ironictoaster
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    I would like to know too. I only took up art this year and the course is ridiculously too big to do in one year!


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    xOxSinéadxOx
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    I actually haven't a clue, I don't know anything about what we're supposed to know!


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    Solidarity
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    New Grange has come up the last 2 years.

    In 2007 it was a general question on New Grange and last year I got a log question on New Grange based on the actual Art work... I wasn't prepared at all for it

    Bronze age did come up last year too. I think it was about the metal work and explain 2 pieces of metal work and explain the designs and stuff like that .

    Blah! I can't remember what came up :mad:


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    likely_lass
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    i did the paper last year - studied cleverly (only focused on 5 essays) and 145/150 in the LC

    just telling you my opinions on this and dont blame me if im wrong but i do think im quite good at predicting

    DONT STUDY NEWGRANGE, it comes up every second year & was up last year, so many people were unlucky with that too - they only studied a general newgrange Q and it was actually focused on stone carving

    i think ill study 3 essays for section 1 -in each essay ill take 3 artefacts from each era, prob try to take them cronologically and try to take 3 artefacts in diff materials

    it would probably be good to study diff types of graves from each age.


    Section 2 is the tricky one my approach last year was to go through the papers looking at the list Q (this question is there to save you) Boticelli is good for -secular, group pic, mythological,symbolism(oranges in primevara -but arnolfini wedding is really the best for that) water(birth of venus), then leonardo is usually a safe one too - maybe throw in jan van eyk for safety, also equestrian comes up quite a lot & battle scenes


    SECTION 3- know your gallery visit backwards, the q comes up every year and there would be uproar if it wasnt on the paper, watch out for the twist - last year they said how did the artists work impact on your art, just throw in a sentence after each piece saying "i found this use of paint...coulour..technique v interesting and decided to try a similar use in my painting of..."



    NOTE this really is if you know nothing - pick a few topics- go through all the exam papers on examinations.ie and make sure you would be capable of answering 1 q from each section on all the previous papers

    & KNOW YOUR SKETCHES they are so important - use colour it makes them look so much more polished


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