Thursday, January 12, 2017

January assessment: Learner response

The January assessment is a good opportunity to look at the skills we need to develop prior to the real MEST1 exam on Thursday 18 May.

Most students find that the MEST1 Section A unseen is the weakest element of the exam and therefore requires serious practice, revision and preparation. It's important to reflect on the areas to work on and make sure that you improve your performance in future. Particular elements we noticed when marking included:
  • Focus on the question: don't write about sound if the question states mise-en-scene
  • Paragraphing and organisation: you should be aiming for 3-4 well-developed paragraphs for each question with a clear topic sentence for each paragraph
  • Media terminology and theory: revise the key theories, particularly for audience and representation

January assessment: learner response

Your learner response for the January assessment is as follows:

1) Type up your feedback in full in a new blogpost called 'January assessment learner response' (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you don't want to)

2) Read the Mark scheme and Examiners' Report for the Sussex Safer Roads MEST1 exam.

3) Use the information you read in the mark scheme and Examiners' Report to re-write your weakest question into a superb, well-developed answer below your typed up feedback. 

If you have two questions on the same lower mark, choose the one you feel is your weaker area. We want you to use all the links and documents to help you - the objective here is to use all possible resources to write as close to a 12-mark answer as you possibly can.

The Sussex Safer Roads Embrace Life clip is available here:




The question paper you took on is available here.

If you don't finish this in the lesson make sure it is completed for homework - due for your double lesson next week.

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