MEST3 PPE - Learner Response

You've now completed the full MEST3 PPE - vital preparation for the real thing on Monday 4 June.

The most important aspect of any mock exam is making mistakes and learning from them. You need to closely analyse your performance across each question and identify specific ways you will improve for the MEST3 exam in five weeks. Complete the following learner response tasks in a new blogpost on your MEST3 Exam Blog called 'MEST3 PPE learner response':


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

2) Did you succeed in meeting or exceeding your target grade for A2 Media? If not, how many additional marks do you need across Section A and Section B to achieve your target grade?

Grade boundaries for this exam paper were extremely harsh - but they could easily be this high again and we need to be prepared. Grade boundaries for the complete MEST3 paper (out of 80): 

A* = 75; A = 71; B = 62; C = 53; D = 44; E = 35.

3) Read through the mark scheme. Pay particular attention to pages 6-8 that have suggested content for each of the questions in Section A. How many of these potential points did you make? Did you successfully answer the questions? The original question paper is here if that is helpful.

4) Which was your strongest question in Section A? Why did you do better in that particular question? Note the number of marks each question is worth.


5) Which was your weakest question in Section A? Again, try and identify why this happened. Did you misinterpret the question? Did you run out of time? 

6) Now look at pages 12-13 of the mark scheme for Section B - New/Digital Media paying particular attention to the suggested essay content on page 13. How many of the broad areas suggested by AQA did you cover in your Section B essay? Did you successfully answer the question?

7) Read the Examiner's Report in full. For each question your answered, would you classify your response as one of the stronger answers or one of the weaker answers the Chief Examiner discusses? Why? What could you do differently next time? Write a reflection for EACH question in the paper: Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q6 OR Q7.

8) Choose your weakest question in Section A and re-write an answer in full based on the suggested content from the Examiner's Report. This answer needs to be comprehensive and meet the criteria for Level 4 of the mark scheme. This will be somewhere between 3-5 well-developed paragraphs (depending on the question/number of marks available).

Work on this during the lesson you are given your paper back but you will need to complete for homework.