Mock Exam date & revision tips

Your Media AS mock exam will take place on Friday 8th May at 8.55 am (periods 1 & 2)

It is essential that you arrive on time to the exam and that you are fully prepared.

Revision tips:

1. Know your case study really, really well. The shows, the schedule, the target audience and how their needs are met, they ways it's distributed, its use of technologies and convergence Be ready to give specific examples from your case study for every point you make.

Know the 5 key areas well and be able to run through them in your head so that you remember to talk about all of them:

1. The BBC’s responsibility to its audience (the differences between public and commercial radio institutions - i.e. who pays for them and how; what does this mean about how they need to provide for their audiences?)
2. Convergence and distribution: how the BBC reaches its audiences; what new technologies have been introduced and how this has affected radio institutions like the BBC
3. Digital production and the benefits of this
4. Marketing: How the BBC markets specific radio stations and attracts specific audiences
5. Content: How the BBC targets the needs of niche audiences (e.g. people of a particular age, cultural heritage, region or interest group)

3. Know your terminology (technical words). These are listed below in green.

4. Get a revision technique for all this information. For example, try putting examples from your case study, the 5 areas, and the key words onto revision cards, or stick them round your room, or recite them outloud - whatever helps you remember.