Hi guys!
First exam down, six more to go! My first one was the Media Studies AS resit, so I'm guessing not that many people took it, but it was a good start to my exam season nonetheless. The text that we had to analyse was a period drama from ITV, so not what I was expecting but still pretty manageable. Some of the questions could have been a little bit nicer, but they weren't awful so I won't complain. I was really happy with section B though, so here's hoping for an A!
My next exam is the first day back after the half term, which is A2 Media. I'm pretty happy with when my exams are actually. It gets Media out of the way so I can focus on History and English.
It is of course the crucial final half term before most of the exams, so it will be a busy one. I have planned some fun stuff around my revising time because as I have mentioned before, relaxing is just as important as studying!
So within the first week back, I have Media as I mentioned, the first of my History papers which is on Witchcraft and the first of my English papers on Tragedy. We know that there's definitely at least one moving image piece for Media Studies because the exam board have to let centres know so they can set up video facilities, so that's really nice. My teacher doesn't expect the other media product to be a print piece because print was used quite recently, but my year is the last year to go through this spec, so anything could happen really.
Witchcraft is split into two sections, the first being about historians interpretations of how things went down which are based on the depth studies of witch hunts in Essex, Germany and Salem. Essex came up last year, and Salem was on the specimen paper, which leaves Germany the most likely depth study to come up. Who knows though, it's so hard to guess these things. Germany is the one I know the best out of the three, so I hope it's that one.
I'm pretty confident that if I go over my notes for Tragedy that I will do well in the paper. The first section is really just knowing Othello well, which is more than doable, and as long as you have looked at lots of practise questions and lots of themes relating to tragedy for the other two texts, you should be golden.
So the plan for this week:
- Brush up on Media theories, my case studies and read up on the news.
- Make mind maps for theories and my case studies.
- Look at lots of practise questions to practise applying my knowledge to the questions.
- Revise lots of history, mostly Witchcraft, but a bit of Stuarts too.
- Make mind maps on the topics that I'm not so confident on.
- Make mind maps for the depth studies in Witchcraft.
- Practise questions.
- Brush up on Tragedy, look at the themes relating to it and read through the texts again.
- Read through my notes and scene summaries.
- Read through the texts, look out for key themes and useful quotes.
- Practise questions.
Well that seems like more than enough to be getting on with. I think this week will be a useful one.