Second year students - Your KA7 mock is coming up after the half term holiday. It is what we sometimes refer to as the ‘final mock’. This year, KA7 will take the form of a component one exam. In a nutshell, component one is a mix of longer unseen analysis and shorter factual recall questions, with a ‘random’ mix of industries coming up.
For the final exam, you will NOT be given advance notice for what industries will come up for component one. For this mock exam, you will. This is to help you with revision and to make sure that you are fully prepared, as well as taking some of the heat off for this dry run.
When is it?
Your exam will be on Wednesday 8th March at 0900, probably in the LRC.
The exam will be the same length as the final component one exam.
What's on it?
The following topics will come up
Section A – media language and representation
Representation question [30/1 hour] – newspaper industry. A comparison with an UNSEEN newspaper and a set text we have studied (one of the Teresa May covers or double page spreads)
Media language question [15/ 30 minutes] – advertising industry. An analysis of an unseen film poster
Section B – industry and audience
Industry – shorter questions adding up to 25 marks (25 minutes)
Audience – shorter questions adding up to 20 marks (20 minutes)
The two industries which will come up for section b are the radio industry and the video game industry. One will come up for industry, one will come up for audience.
The mock exam questions will be randomly generated using questions from the revision checklist resource. You guys should use the revision checklist to structure your own revision.
How do I revise?
There are lots of ways of revising. But the most important thing to remember is that you will revise a lot more if you're enjoying it. So mix up your revision, and use lots of different techniques. Here's just a few suggestions. You can use the blog for most of these.
- Go to the revision checklist and start ticking boxes
- Past paper questions: open book style
- Past paper questions: closed book style
- Find a study buddy :)
- Pass cards/flash cards with key terminology
- Find an unseen newspaper/film poster and label the whole thing with the textual analysis toolkit
- Go to the INDUSTRIES section of the blog and click around on the four industries that are coming up
- Go to the MEDIA FOCUS section of the blog and watch some videos
- Make notes from your notes!
- Write down three examples for each theory (making explicit reference to case studies!)
- Explain to somebody who's never done media about key theories and concepts
- Listen/read/watch/play the case study newspapers, radio shows and videogames (watching gameplay footage is fine too!)
- Use the blog to find exemplar answers and work out why they are good
- Make a mind map
- Make a knowledge organiser
- Find the a-level media factsheets and summarise them on your blog
- Write a PEA paragraph or DAC introduction and email it to your teacher