Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Crowdsourced Specification Guide


For this task, you will work in small teams in your own time to put together a guide to the new draft specifications due to start in September 2017. 

You will be allocated one of the following:

A level Media Studies (AQA, OCR, Eduqas)- Warda, Temmy O, Aimee, Katy
GCSE Media Studies (AQA, OCR, Eduqas)- Akira, Becky, Shanthi, Temi A
A level Film Studies (OCR, Eduqas)- Kris, Danny, Lorenza, Amy
GCSE Film Studies (OCR, Eduqas)- Daniel, Richard, Corey

You will need to find these draft specifications and SAMs (Specimen Assessment Materials) exam papers from the exam board websites:


More info and links are available at www.themea.org.uk
These include Steve Connolly's report for the MEA and direct links to all the specifications and the SAMs (specimen assessment materials)

What you need to find out:

What are the exams like?
What is the coursework like?
How do the different courses compare?
What philosophy seems to underlie each specification?
What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of them?

You will also need background information for the subject and level as a result of the published subject criteria. These are at:


You may collate and present your findings in any way you wish, but they should be on the blog ready to discuss by next Wednesday (28th).

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