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May 2015 extended essay reports
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Theatre
Overall grade boundaries
Grade: E D C B A
Mark range: 0 - 7 8 - 15 16 - 22 23 - 28 29 - 36
The range and suitability of the work submitted
Schools are to be commended for dispatching extended essays in time as majority of the
essays were received well before the due deadline. This contributed to the smooth delivery of
the marking.
In terms of knowledge base and suitability, the submitted work covered a broad range, from
poor to excellent, in terms of the quality of research, setting up an appropriate research
question, and formal presentation. Those candidates who excelled in this assessment
component met all of the requirements of the task with research rigour and enthusiasm.
Those candidates who undertook original research – whether in the form of surveys,
interviews, studies, or actual involvement in the work of a theatre practitioner or troupe – were
most successful in achieving their goals, and they were able to narrow down their exploration
to either specific traditions or practic es. The amount and range of practical exploration was
impressive, however, there were also once again cases of those extended essays where
such practical exploration was not underpinned properly with research and theory.
The essays that were less successf ul ranged from those presenting a research question that
lacked focus, to those that were too broad to be treated within the required word limit, or
those not clearly embedded in the subject of theatre or built on superficial or faulty research.
In very fe w cases extended essays seemed submitted to the wrong subject area and would
have sat more comfortably in the field of English A. In these instances candidates attempted
to present a textual analysis of a play only. It should be made clear that the extended essay in
theatre should be embedded in some form of theatre/performance context. In this exam
session a new issue arose, of those candidates who were clearly guided by their teacher -
supervisors to treat extended essays as purely dramaturgical research (t hus turning them into
versions of research investigations) or to base them purely on
File information
Subject
Theatre
Document type
Subject report
Year
2015
Session
May 2015
Level
Not labelled in the archive
Paper
Not labelled
Examination zone
Not labelled in the archive
Language
English
File size
59 KB
Pages
6
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