Lesson 16: End of Term Exam and Return
Media Studies · Unit 6 · Lesson 16 of 16 · ← L15
At a glance
| Days | 2 teaching days + exam window |
| Dates | Exam sat in the window Mon 2027-01-11 → Mon 01-18 (your slot is set by the exam office) · Tue 01-19 return · Wed 01-20 double, goal setting |
| Band/Unit | U6 Revision (S1 Unit 6) |
| AO focus | AO1 + AO2 (full paper); AO-level gap analysis after |
| Deliverable | End of Term Exam script (20% category); one-page Semester 2 target sheet (LB7) |
| Feeds | Semester 2; Forecast Grade evidence |
| Homework | None |
These dates are provisional and may shift when the school publishes the calendar for this period; your exact exam slot will be confirmed in class.
Goal
The semester closes with evidence. You sit the full two-hour Component 2 paper in the exam window. Scripts come back Tuesday with question-level AO breakdowns, and the Wednesday double turns that data into one page each: where the marks went, which AO is the gap, and what Semester 2 does about it.
How it runs
The exam — window Mon 01-11 → Mon 01-18
- Full Component 2, two hours, exam venue, full conditions. The paper: June 2024/22 (Servant) — Section A on the unseen extract (30 min viewing/notes + 45 writing), Section B from the contexts menu (45). Your slot is set by the exam office.
Tue 01-19: the return
- Self-assessment first (20 min) — scripts face-down, self-band each criterion from memory of what you wrote, then read the script with its question-level AO breakdowns. Compare your self-band to your mark.
- Gaps in writing (20 min) — name your gaps in writing, in AO language, with the script as evidence: not “Section B went badly” but “AO1 contexts: my case-study facts were pre-2020.”
Wed 01-20 (double): the target sheets, and the close
- The target sheet (40 min) — one page each, four rows: gap (in AO language) · evidence (script + semester data: A1 → A4 → EoT) · action (specific, S2-shaped) · review date (a named S2 week, falling before the first S2 attainment). Write it to be read in February.
- LB7 (10 min) — posted: response to feedback, S2 goal set.
- The close (30 min) — Semester 2 preview: C1 goes to Cambridge in the spring, the film-industry case study opens Section B properly, Paper 2 sits in June. The theory-card deck and the case-study document carry across the break as your two working artifacts. Grades and comments are due today.
Assessment
| Item | Date | What | AO |
|---|---|---|---|
| EoT | window Mon 2027-01-11 → Mon 01-18 | Full Component 2 paper, 2 hours, exam venue; 20% End-of-Term category | AO1+AO2 |
| LB7 | Wed 2027-01-20 | Response to feedback; Semester 2 goal setting | — |
See the full register.