GCSE Drama 1DR0 - Component 2 Performance from Text - Principal Examiner Feedback Summer 2022

Sep 5, 2026

Principal Examiner Feedback summarizes the Summer 2022 assessment experience for Pearson Edexcel GCSE Drama (1DR0), focusing on Component 2, Performance from Text (20% of the qualification, 48 marks). The report highlights how centres adapted to exceptional 2022 conditions, including reduced timing requirements, one-extract marking adjustments, and alternative assessment routes using live presence, recordings, and hybrid options. Key strengths and improvement areas for the 2023 series are outlined, supporting centres with regulator-driven specification context and guidance links.

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Introduction

Overview of the 2022 Exam Series

Assessment arrangements and marking adjustments

Examiners’Report Principal Examiner Feedback Summer 2022 Pearson Edexcel GCSE Drama (1DR0) Component 2: Performance from Text Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific programmes for employers . For further information visit our qualifications websites [at](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[ ](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[www.edexcel.com](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[ or](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[ ](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[www.btec.co.uk](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively)[. Alternatively](at www.edexcel.com or www.btec.co.uk. Alternatively), you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page [at](at www.edexcel.com/contactus)[ ](at www.edexcel.com/contactus)[www.edexcel.com/contactus](at www.edexcel.com/contactus). Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of people, wherever they are in the world. We’ve been involved in education for over 150 years, and by working across 70 countries, in 100 languages, we have built an international reputation for our commitment to high standards and raising achievement through innovation in education. Find out more about how we can help you and your students at: [www.pearson.com/uk](www.pearson.com/uk) Summer 2022 Publications Code 1DR0_ 02_ 2206_ERAll the material in this publication is copyright © Pearson Education Ltd 2022 Pearson Education Limited. Registered company number 872828 with its registered office at 80 Strand, London, WC2R 0RL, United Kingdom Component 2: Performance from Text 1DR0/02 20% of the qualification – 48 marks (For 2022 one extract was marked out of 24 marks and adjusted to a mark of 48 after the Examiner Marking) Introduction The 2022 exam series was a far from normal experience for the students taking the Component 2 exam. It was also one where centres had to be resilient and make adjustments, many for reasons which were beyond their control, to be able to offer the assessment opportunity for the students. This report is written as an addition to the previous Component 2 reports, to offer support to centres by highlighting key positives that went well in the 2022 series as well as outlining key areas that can be strengthened for 2023. Bearing in mind the anomalies that were necessary for this year but also looking forward to the return to the normal requirements for 2023. The Principal Examiner’s report isto be used in conjunction with the other materials documented, which are available on the Pearson website, to best support centres for the 2023 series: Link to Pearson website [https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/drama-2016.html](https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/drama-2016.html) The examined Component 2 was introduced to centres in 2018 as part of the first year of the revised three Component GCSE specification 1DR0 . Following the requirements of the regulator regarding changes to all GCSEs, the new Component 2 is worth 20% of the overall marks available for the GCSE. For the Component 2 exam, each centre chooses the performance / design options taken by candidates, the texts and the audience present for the examination performances. Now, in its fifth year, Component 2 has flourished into a performance exam which offers students the differentiation and variety that is required for them to succeed independently and play to their own strengths. Centres have taken the opportunity to offer a wide pathway of performance and design options an

FAQs

What does Component 2 assess in the GCSE Drama (1DR0) specification?

Component 2 assesses Performance from Text. Centres select performance/design options, the text used, and the audience present for examination performances.

How was the Summer 2022 Component 2 exam adapted due to 2022 circumstances?

The 2022 series required students to provide one extract only, with marks adjusted from an original 24-mark assessment to a 48-mark scale by the exam board. Timing requirements and penalties were also reduced.

What assessment options were available to centres in 2022 for Component 2?

Centres could choose live assessment with the examiner present, assessment via examiner marking from recordings after the exam, or a hybrid option for students absent due to self-isolation, including submitting recordings within ten days.

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