Graphic Communication · Advanced Higher
Advanced Higher Graphic Communication treats you as a junior designer: research, plan and produce a graphics solution for a real brief, backed by strong technical knowledge of how graphics are specified and made.
What it offers you
Graphic Communication builds visual and technical design skills — sketching, CAD, desktop publishing and 3D modelling — for design, engineering and creative media study and careers.
What Advanced Higher actually asks of you
Question paper
Extended questions on graphic design theory, technical graphics, production processes and the analysis of professional work, with justification of design decisions.
Project — an extended design and production task for a client brief, from research and planning through to a finished, evaluated graphic outcome.
Exact timings and mark allocations are printed on the front cover of each paper below.
Topics that come up
Papers & marking schemes
SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Graphic Communication Advanced Higher on sqa.org.uk.