Exam Advice

Pete's Media Blog is an excellent source of advice for approaching the G325 exam. Here is a link to all of the previous questions from his blog. http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/a2-media-exam-coming-soon.html Pete also gives advice on each of the different themes including all previous questions and some excellent links to case study material. If you are struggling with examples for your theme then use Pete's advice and follow his links. Contemporary Media Regulation - http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/contemporary-media-regulation.html Media in the Online Age - http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/media-in-online-age-exam-questions.html We-Media and Democracy - http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/wemedia-and-democracy-exam-questions.html Media and Collective Identity - http://petesmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/collective-identity-exam-questions.html I would also advise you to look through Pete's Media Blog and use the labels to ensure you read everything that is relevant to your theme.

Exam Requirements

In preparation for the exam students must:

*Engage with a range of theoretical perspectives

*Demonstrate a personal position on the issues

*Know about research carried out to discover audience practices and habits (this could be research carried out by themselves)

*Exam answers must have a historical, contemporary and future perspective, focussing mostly on the contemporary.

*Emphasise the active audience i.e. how people 'give meaning' to cultural products (media texts).

*Have an understanding of two different areas of the media ie. film, television, internet, magazines, etc.