Well, hello again Edutistas
How are we all? Your favourite AQA GCSE Media blogger is back. And it’s ALWAYS party time here! (Except when we are following the rules mandated by our overlords.)
Topics under our metaphorical surgical knife today (as long as they haven’t been delayed by staffing shortages) are:
- EXAM 2022 – POSSIBLE CHANGES
- NEA 2022 UPDATES
- NEW CSP TOPICS 2023 (Y10)
GET BACK BOJO
Apologies for the delay, I’ve been refitting my capacious garden/home office/party space with room for 40 of my writing team to be able to bring you the most insightful and meaningful views on our beloved exam content. And also watching that mad Beatles thing on Disney. George casually leaves The Beatles with less histrionics than me when I stormed out of the tea club in 2018 (What do you mean, Half-Spoon’s too expensive?)
IT’S EXAM YEAR
At this point (although of course this statement must come with any number of caveats), it looks like we will be engaged in real live exam preparation for the first time since the inaugural 2019 roll out of the new AQA Media Studies exam.
DOWN THROUGH THE DARK STREETS
The 2019 exam itself was, as we all know, a significantly more difficult affair all round. Many veterans of the legacy AQA exam will remember that the challenges of the new style papers were much more complex than what we had experienced previously.
Add to that the obvious uncertainty generated by the ongoing challenges of staffing/absenteeism etc, then we all know that the next few months are going to require a fair degree…