AQA Media Studies exam

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  1. glindie13's Avatar
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    AQA Media Studies exam
    anyone doing a media studies aqa a2 level exam tomorrow?
    how do you revise for it?
  2. alicex3's Avatar
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    I've just made revision cards on my case studies and theory, find media so hard to revise for haha
    Love it though and doing it at uni whyyyy
  3. marlsey's Avatar
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    i've made revision cards, im making mine now. any one know what to write about an audience question?
  4. glindie13's Avatar
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    it sounds like a good revision tool!
    yeah, you can't really revise for media, its just basic general knowledge of the world and the media haha.
    I'm doing media at uni too! what uni are you going to?
    and as for the audience question, does that come under section A?
  5. alicex3's Avatar
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    I've put down Surrey as my first choice really hope I get in! What about you?
    It depends if it was like section A/B I guess and what the unseen or what your case study is
    Really hope the unseen piece is nice haha
  6. glindie13's Avatar
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    that sounds great! I'm going to Nottingham Trent so hopefully i'll get the grades
    what do they want for Surrey?
    I hope the unseen is good too and section B! I'm relying on that as its worth the most marks!
    Good luck for tomorrow!
  7. alicex3's Avatar
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    I really liked nottingham trent but it's just that little bit far for me to travel to they want ABB but I'm aiming for AAC literally so scared I won't get in haha
    What did everyone think then? Think I messed up unseen but did alright on section B
  8. laswann's Avatar
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    Section A was ok. I didn't like the two texts and quesiton 3 was really hard and too general. Section B went well though!
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    Section A was perfect for me, I study film and had covered both them films in my AS year. Question 3 was difficult and tbh I gave up half way through and carried on with question 2 using an asterisk. Section B was okay but all my stats I had revised couldn't fit into the question without me going off topic. Oh well at least its over with
  10. LisaDR's Avatar
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    i really liked the questions.
    section a q3, was a little tricky, because we didn't study trailers for A2 but for AS, anyway i agreed that official and unofficial websites do generate profit and gave examples of breaking dawn part 2 trailer on youtube and its official Facebook page, but then i disagreed and said paratexts also generate profit, e.g. the brand name, director, actor are all paratexts,then i gave an example of snow white and the huntsman which kriten stewart is in, as the movie already made millions and i said it could be the fact that kristen is a paratext/hugely popular from twilight lol i hope i answered it right :/
    Last edited by LisaDR; 16-06-2012 at 11:07.
  11. annaelizabeth26's Avatar
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    this exam was horrendous for me
    I just froze up halfway through I hope I did enough
  12. vab10's Avatar
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    I hated section A. Was expecting the first question to be on representation not enigma codes. Section B went well though!
  13. alicex3's Avatar
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    Yeah I hated section A too tbh doesn't help that I absolutely hate anything to do with Twilight haha was a nightmare
    I'm sure we all did fine but I've definitely done better on section B
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