Practice, Experimentation, and Revision
| English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|
| practice | 练习 | liàn xí |
| experimentation | 实验 | shí yàn |
| revision | 修改 | xiū gǎi |
Three linked actions
- Making advances through three linked actions.
- Practice 练习 is repeated work to build skill and understanding.
- It is how you get better at handling materials and processes.
Repeated work to build skill and understanding is called...
Practice builds skill through repetition.
Experimentation
- Experimentation 实验 tries new materials, processes, and ideas.
- It discovers possibilities you could not plan in advance.
- Not every experiment succeeds — and that is the point.
Practice, experiment, or revise?
Sort each action into the right category.
It is valuable to include failed experiments in your portfolio.
Evidence of experimentation, including failures, is rewarded.
Select all three actions that advance making.
Practice, experimentation, and revision advance making; ignoring feedback does not.
Match each action to its meaning.
Practice = repeat; experiment = try new; revise = change.
Revision
- Revision 修改 changes a work based on reflection, feedback, or new questions.
- These actions show across the body of work, not just one final piece.
- Evidence of experimentation and revision is exactly what readers look for.
Changing a work based on reflection or feedback is called ____.
Revision improves a work after reflection or feedback.
Show your experimentation and revision, do not hide them. Beginners submit only their polished finals; strong portfolios include the tests, the failures, and the reworked versions. The visible process of practice, experiment, and revision is graded, not just the final look.
A student prints an image, then experiments by printing it on fabric, on newspaper, and layered over paint. One fails badly. She revises the best version, adding stitching. The portfolio shows all of it — the practice, the experiment, and the revision — as evidence of real making.
Making advances through practice (repeat to build skill), experimentation (try new possibilities), and revision (change after reflection/feedback). These must show across the body of work — the visible process, including failures, is what AP readers reward.