Mock exams: Revision and preparation

Your Media mocks are a great opportunity to practice the full 90-minute exams you'll be doing this summer.

We've also got the significant boost of AQA providing advance information about the exams which tells us which CSPs will be coming up. Use your notes, blog work and revision booklets / practice questions to prepare for the following:

Media 1 mock exam: Thursday 3 March P1&2

Section A: Media Language, Representations and Contexts

Unseen text analysis - look at previous assessment LRs and revise mise-en-scene (CLAMPS) and other key media language from your GLoW Media glossary.

Magazines: Tatler - original blog notes here. You'll also find lesson videos from lockdown.

Advertising & Marketing: Galaxy Audrey Hepburn Chauffeur advert - original blog notes here. You can also find the original lesson slides here. 

Section B: Media Industries and Audiences

OSP/Videogames: Lara Croft Go - original blog notes here.

Media 2 mock exam: Tuesday 8 March P5&6

Section A: Television

Extract from Class - Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart with 2, 8 and 12 mark questions about the clip.

20-mark essay on Class and Doctor Who - TV blog notes can be found on the TV final index here.

Section B: Newspapers

20-mark essays on Daily Mirror and The Times.

• Daily Mirror notes - Language and Audience
• Daily Mirror notes - Representations and Industry
• The Times notes - Language and Audience
• The Times notes - Representations and Industry

Important: the final question in Media Two is the synoptic question where you need to demonstrate your knowledge of the whole course of study. The best way to do this is to discuss different CSPs that relate to the question you are given.

Revision is the key

It's important that you revise properly for these exams and give yourself the best possible chance of success. It's fine to make mistakes - that's what mock exams are for - but since we know which CSPs will be coming up there's no excuse for not knowing key information about the products. 

If you would like revision cards to revise with feel free to pop in to DF07 and I'll happily provide you with them for free - I strongly recommend creating revision cards for all the exam CSPs and also for media terminology and theory (e.g. Mise-en-scene, Reception theory, Uses & Gratifications theory etc.)

The better you know the terminology, theory and CSPs, the better you'll do in the exams!