Cambridge IGCSE Art and Design 0400 — 2009 Oct/Nov Paper 3 · Variant 1
0400/31/O/N/09 · 100 marks · ≈113 min
The question paper and its mark scheme, free to read here and free to download. This is Cambridge’s own paper, exactly as it was sat.
Question paper4 pages




Mark scheme2 pages
Answers below. Sit the paper first if you are practising.


Paper as text
Question paper, page 1
This document consists of 3 printed pages and 1 blank page. DC (SM) 12726/3 © UCLES 2009 [Turn over UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, candidate number, name and question number on the top right-hand corner of the front of each sheet of paper. Answer one question. In addition to the examination piece, candidates are required to submit up to three A2 sheets of supporting work. These should be the sheets of preparatory work undertaken after receipt of this paper. Candidates should refer to their preparatory work during the examination. All questions are for designs on paper. Candidates should not produce work on any other material. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together at the top left-hand corner of each sheet. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. * 9 0 4 3 1 7 1 4 1 9 * ART AND DESIGN 0400/03 Paper 3 Design Study 15 September–31 October 2009 10 hours To be given to candidates on receipt by the Centre. Candidates must have at least two weeks’ preparation time. www.XtremePapers.com
Question paper, page 2
2 0400/03/O/N/09 © UCLES 2009 1 Design using Lettering Design a logo for a company which organizes classes for disco, jive and freestyle dancing. The name of the company, BOP, must be included in your design. In addition, show how the logo might look in a small newspaper advertisement or on a business card. 2 Illustration and Calligraphy Either (a) Design the menu cover for a French restaurant named PAPILLON. Or (b) Using a calligraphic script with which you are familiar, write out the following verse and add a decorative border and/or an illustration. Flying Crooked The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight, Yet has – who knows so well as I? – A just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and there by guess And God and hope and hopelessness. Even the acrobatic swift Has not his flying-crooked gift. Robert Graves 3 Environmental / Structural Design Design an information kiosk with awnings for shade, to be situated at the start of a nature trail. Show in a ground plan the placing of boulders, trees, shrubs, paving and seating in the immediate surroundings. Include an artist’s impression of the kiosk seen from an approaching path. 4 Interior Design Design a square mosaic for the floor of the entrance hall of an anthropology or history museum. You should base your design on ancient human settlements. 5 Fashion Design Design a costume for a festival performer based on the forms and markings of wild animals.
Question paper, page 3
3 0400/03/O/N/09 © UCLES 2009 6 Fabric Design Design a repeat pattern for the roller blinds of a bakery selling breads, biscuits, cakes and pastries. 7 Printmaking Make a print or a series of prints for the packaging of a garden centre’s products, based on one of the following: (a) Bulbs (b) Seeds (c) Herbs 8 Photography The editor of a newspaper requires images for a feature on the social and environmental changes in your region, based on one of the following themes: (a) Medical provision (b) Water conservation or flood prevention (c) Slum clearance You must process and print your own photographs One main and two supporting photographs should be submitted. All three studies may be mounted on one side of thin card not exceeding A2 in size. Alternatively, they may be contained in a clear plastic cover. Contact prints of negatives or original digital images showing other possible angles and views must be included as part of the accompanying preparatory work.
Question paper, page 4
4 0400/03/O/N/09 BLANK PAGE Copyright Acknowledgements: Question 2(b) © The Trustees of the Robert Graves Copyright Trust Permission to reproduce items where third-party owned material protected by copyright is included has been sought and cleared where possible. Every reasonable effort has been made by the publisher (UCLES) to trace copyright holders, but if any items requiring clearance have unwittingly been included, the publisher will be pleased to make amends at the earliest possible opportunity. University of Cambridge International Examinations is part of the Cambridge Assessment Group. Cambridge Assessment is the brand name of University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is itself a department of the University of Cambridge.
Mark scheme, page 1
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2009 question paper for the guidance of teachers 0400 ART AND DESIGN 0400/03 Paper 3 (Design Study – External), maximum raw mark 100 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners’ meeting before marking began, which would have considered the acceptability of alternative answers. Mark schemes must be read in conjunction with the question papers and the report on the examination. • CIE will not enter into discussions or correspondence in connection with these mark schemes. CIE is publishing the mark schemes for the October/November 2009 question papers for most IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level syllabuses. www.XtremePapers.com
Mark scheme, page 2
Page 2 Mark Scheme: Teachers’ version Syllabus Paper IGCSE – October/November 2009 0400 03 © UCLES 2009 The assessment objectives in Art and Design are grouped under the following headings: A Knowledge with understanding B Interpretative and creative response C Personal investigation and development A KNOWLEDGE WITH UNDERSTANDING Candidates should be able to: 1 recognise and render form and structure; [15] 2 appreciate space and spatial relationships in two and three dimensions and understand space in terms of pictorial organisation; [15] 3 use chosen media competently, showing clarity of intention and be able to explore surface qualities; [10] 4 handle tone and/or colour in a controlled and intentioned manner. [10] B INTERPRETATIVE AND CREATIVE RESPONSE Candidates should be able to: 5 express ideas visually; [10] 6 respond in an individual and personal way; [5] 7 demonstrate quality of idea as seen by interpretation rather than literal description of a theme; − 8 make informed aesthetic judgements. [15] C PERSONAL INVESTIGATION AND DEVELOPMENT Candidates should be able to: 9 show personal vision and commitment, through a mature and committed response; [2] 10 research appropriate resources; [5] 11 assess a design problem and arrive at an appropriate solution; [10] 12 show development of ideas through appropriate processes, worksheets, etc. before arriving at a final solution. [3] [Total marks: 100]
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Cambridge’s own grade thresholds for 2009 Oct/Nov, Paper 3 · Variant 1. A higher threshold means an easier paper — the bar moves with how the cohort did.