Sharpen your research skills in your area of interest in detail, then design a project around your findings and finally organise a way of completing it, this what the EPQ asks you to do. You will acquire project management skills, academic research skills, and effective approaches to independent study. Think big! The EPQ is an optional course studied in your second year of study. • Production log: an ongoing record of your progress through your project, your plans, reflections, research strategies and discoveries all go in here, you could call it your research diary. • Product: the outcome of your project and what you produce as the result of your research. • Presentation: gives you the chance to communicate the results of your project, how you managed to complete it and what your experience of taking part in the EPQ has