Media Paper 1 mock exam - Learner response

You've now completed your mock exams and so need to be identifying the specific areas to revise and improve on before the final exams in the summer.

The most important aspect of any mock exam is making mistakes and learning from them. 

Here, we need to closely analyse our performance across each question in Paper 1 and identify specific ways we will improve for the real exam on Monday 20 May (PM). Complete the following learner response tasks in a new blogpost on your Media Exam Blog called 'Paper 1 mock exam learner response':

1) Type up any feedback in full (you do not need to write mark/grade if you do not wish to).

Now read through the genuine AQA mark scheme. This is vital as the paper was an official exam paper and therefore the mark scheme tells us a lot about what AQA are expecting us to produce. Please note that some of the CSPs have changed since last year's exam so we've updated some of the indicative content for our 2024 CSPs.

2) Write a question-by-question analysis of your performance. For each question, write how many marks you got from the number available and identify any points that you missed by carefully studying the AQA indicative content in the mark scheme:

Example: Q1: 4/8 marks
Additional points: didn't mention enough about use of mise-en-scene to construct strong representation of femininity and establish myths around beauty that remain conventions to this day. Could also have mentioned use of direct address and intertextual references to notable figures at the time (e.g. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe).

3) Look at Question 4 - a 20-mark essay evaluating Shirky's 'End of audience' theory. Write an essay plan for this question using the indicative content in the mark scheme and with enough content to meet the criteria for Level 4 (top level). This will be somewhere between 3-4 well-developed paragraphs plus an introduction answering the question planned in some detail.

4) Based on the whole of your Paper 1 learner response, plan FIVE topics / concepts / CSPs / theories that you will prioritise in your summer exam Media revision timetable.

The lessons will involve marking real student responses to last summer's exams so you will need to complete the majority of this learner response for your homework - due date on Google Classroom.