Key information
For the KA4 mock, ANYTHING that we studied in first year could come up.
• The exam will be 75 minutes, and there will be an hour long, 30 mark representation comparison question comparing one of the adverts, music videos or newspapers we studied with an unseen piece of media. This piece of media could either be print or video.
• The remaining 15 marks will be on industry, and there will be several short answer questions. Students will be asked to spend 15 minutes on this section. The industries that could come up for this section are film, newspapers, radio or videogames.
All timings do not factor in extra time allocations. The exam will take place during the first lesson of the final week of the half term (W/C 19/5/2025)
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!