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SECTION
A
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What we will look at…
• Quick overview of exam requirements
• Making revision eective – Understanding each skill
– Identifying skills ‘elements you can talk a!out – "inding relevant and useful exam#les
– $ow to organise your exam#les when revising
– %onverting exam#les in to essay #aragra#h #lans
– $ow to #ractice essay writing• &racticing $'W (' a##ly this in the session
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SKILLS)ection *+
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G325 – SECTION A
QUESTION 1A
$'W your
SKILLS have #rogressed and
-./.0'&.- over the courseof your Media education
It’s about
YOU as aMEDIA PRACTICTIONER
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1ou must give exam#les from ALL o*-ou! "ou!s.o!/ 0!o+u"t'o&s 2
#relim3 +) and +4
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MAKING REISIONEECTIE
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Understanding the )kills
5ead through the )killsheadings de7nitions
Make sure you understandwhat each skill area
means
1ou can !egin your introduction #aragra#h with8• a !rief de7nition of the skill and• a comment a!out your a!ilities in the skill area
!efore you !egan your Media course
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Understanding what you can talka!out for each skill
"or .+%$ skill look at theskills ‘elements that fallunder each skill heading
Identify which elementsyou want to talk a!out in
your essay
&ick a MI6IMUM of +'4!&t %&ts for eachskill
(his will de#end on8• $ow many you used at +) 9 +4 or in :'($
#ieces of coursework
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"indingexam#les…
• -ivide u# your revision into );I00+5.+
• "or each );I003 think of < or =elements9software that you haveused over the course of the +)and +4 #roductions
• "or each skill ‘element list * or 4exam#les of the ways in whichyou used it
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– 0ist * or 4 exam#les from your +4Music /ideo 9 +ncillary
– "or each exam#le you give youMU)( re>ect on8
• What it allowed you to do with yourwork
• When ? how you used it in your work
• What you can do now as a result of thatskill3 that you couldnt do !efore@
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:U(…dont forget the need for
triangulation
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Crids and Mindma#s…
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Making your notes eective$ow to organise your revision…
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Making your notes eective$ow to organise your revision…+
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$ow to organise your revision… makingeective notes
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%hoose an essay structure…
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&ractice #lanning essayanswers
• 6ow you have chosen which ty#e of essaystructure you want to answer use yourrevision notes that you made and #ractice
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&ractice .ssay Writing
• Using the #lan that you have made with yournotes8 – (ake a #ast exam question for each skill area
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Write out an essay following the structure you havemade with your notes• 1ou MU)( +-- ($. ./+0U+(I'6 sentence Oso #oint < on
the #aragra#h triangleP at the end of every #aragra#h ifyou havent done this in your notes
– Cive yourself as long as you need to write theessay• +t
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+6- 5.M.M:.5…the need for
triangulation
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What MU)( you show in your essayH
• %lear structure
• &rogression and develo#ment in the skill the questionasks a!out
• + range of exam#les of8 – -ierent elements of the skill – .xam#les from your +) coursework
– .xam#les from your +4 coursework I6%0U-I6C ancillary work
• .valuate how successful you have !een in8 – using the skill
– $ow your use of each element hel#ed the outcome of your#roducts Oi@e@ made them good 9 successful etc…P
• W5I(. M'5. ($+6 < )I-.)
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&racticing timed writing
• When youre ha##y with your essaystructure and the way you are usingyour content… – )et yourself
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GOODLUCK