Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)

Course summary

The EPQ offers opportunities for students to develop and improve their learning and performance as critical, reflective and independent students. Students develop and apply decision-making, problem-solving skills and eextend their skills in planning, research, critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and presentation. The EPQ has proved to be popular with students. It provides an opportunity for students to extend their abilities beyond the A level syllabus and pursue individual interests. It allows students to embark on a largely self-directed project with an emphasis on skill development where students take responsibility for the choice and design of an individual project. Projects are founded on researched-based critical analysis and presented in the form of an academically referenced report, an artefact or a performance.