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What do you need to know?
- The end of year mock exam is big and tough. It is designed to assess everything that we have done over the last year.
- Not everything we covered will come up in the exam. This is because the exam emulates component one. Component one is the first exam that you will sit, and it covers only ‘first year topics’. However, we do not know what will come up in component one.
- There will also be questions that will involve analysing unseen media products. While you can definitely revise for this, there is no way of ever being completely prepared for these. And that’s fine! The examiner will be interested in how you respond to something unfamiliar, and how you apply media language and theory to it to help you revise.
- The unseen questions are probably the easiest ones to ‘blag’. But don’t blag them. Revise media language and theory to prepare!
- Other questions are all about cold hard facts. If you know the answer, that’s great! If you don’t, well, that’s not.
- You cannot ‘blag’ the industry or audience questions, because they are about factual recall
What could come up?
- Media language - 15 marks - 30 minutes - unseen analysis question - could be anything! Either video or print - use media terminology to get marks!
- Representation - 30 mark - 60 minutes - unseen comparison - one of the set texts (Daily Mirror front page (Johnson), The Times front page (Johnson), Super.Human, Tide Advert, Kiss Of The Vampire poster) or music videos (Seventeen Going Under or Formation), compared with literally anything! - use media terminology to get marks! But also how the producer has used representations to reconstruct reality
- Industry - 15 marks - 15 minutes - shorter questions about any one of the following - newspapers, videogames, film or radio - cold, hard, factual recall
How to use the blog to revise
- Mind maps - take a topic, concept or theory, and then surround this word with further information about it. Have information from the blog open in front of you
- Use the industries tab to find explicit information about every industry
- Use the revision checklist, under resources
- Use past paper questions. Either answer timed conditions, or simply just look at them!
- Learn specific definitions of keywords. Using flash cards, or covering up the definition and having a go at writing it yourself
- Open the textual analysis toolkit, find a funny advert on YouTube, and analyse it! Analyse anything you want!
- Want to know how to actually write an essay? Either check out this article, or watch the video version of it!
- Check out mark schemes and exemplar answers. There are some on the blog!
- Learn facts! Go on Wikipedia and rinse it for the latest facts!
- Theorists! Go on theories and theorist and make 19 flash cards in four different colours
- Use the revision pyramid! There’s no such thing as bad revision, but mixing up different kinds of revision will really help you, so using this poster will get you inspired!
- Check out videos. There’s my YouTube channel, Mrs Fisher, Mark Dixon, and possibly others
- Revision walk: go for a walk with flashcards! getting tested while doing something else can help your factual recall!
- Revise while cooking! While your chips are in the oven, read the blog on your phone!
- Get a bunch of post it notes, and stick them all around your house!
- Make a quiz! Quiz yourself! Quiz somebody else!
- Teach somebody else! Get a study buddy!