Selected Works: Demonstrating Skills
| English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|
| 2-D skills | 二维技能 | èr wéi jì néng |
Your five strongest
- The Selected Works section shows your best evidence of 2-D skills 二维技能 and synthesis.
- Submit 5 works (physical or digital) as high-quality images.
- These are judged mainly on skilful use of the elements and principles.
Selected Works are judged mainly on...
Selected Works are judged on 2-D skills and synthesis.
Select all good reasons to choose a Selected Work.
Skill, synthesis, and control are good reasons; a weak theme-match is not.
Written information
- For each work, give the materials, processes, and ideas used, plus the size.
- The writing is brief — just enough to inform the viewer.
- It helps the reader understand what they are looking at.
Good choice for Selected Works?
Sort each choice as a good or poor basis for Selected Works.
For each Selected Work, you give the materials, processes, ideas, and the ____.
Give the materials, processes, ideas, and size for each work.
Match each fact to Selected Works.
5 works; judged on skill+synthesis; no required link to SI.
Not tied to the investigation
- Selected Works need not belong to the sustained investigation.
- Choose works that most clearly show control, decision-making, and synthesis.
- Pick your strongest evidence of skill, wherever it comes from.
Selected Works must all belong to your sustained investigation.
They need not relate to the investigation or each other.
Selected Works are judged on 2-D skills and synthesis — not on a shared theme. They do not have to relate to your sustained investigation or to each other. Pick your five most skilful works, full stop, wherever they came from.
A student's 5 Selected Works are unrelated in subject — a portrait, a still life, a print, a digital design, a mixed-media piece — but each shows outstanding 2-D skills and synthesis. Chosen purely for skill, they make a strong section even without a shared theme.
Selected Works are 5 works showing your best 2-D skills and synthesis, submitted as images with brief written materials, processes, and ideas plus size. They need not relate to the sustained investigation or each other — choose your strongest evidence of skill.