Learner response: First test

 1) Type up your feedback in full (you don't need to write the mark and grade if you want to keep this confidential).

WWW: This is a very solid first assessment and q3 is excellent

EBI: Social and cultural context 

2) Read the mark scheme for this assessment carefully. Identify at least one potential point that you missed out on for each question in the assessment.

Speak about todorov equillibrium theory in question 1

3) Read this exemplar response from a previous Year 12 (an A grade) - note this was a slightly different paper in terms of the question wording and also had an additional question 4 (we've updated it to better reflect recent exams). Identify at least one potential point for questions 1-3 from this student's paper that you could have mentioned in your assessment. 

1) Added an introduction, Develop answer and point.
2) Compare within paragraph, "connotes", "suggests"
3) Quote the theorists instead of paraphrase

4) Did you get any media terminology or theory wrong in the assessment? Make a note of it here for future revision, including theories/terminology that you could have used but didn't.

Abercrombie is his name. He made the economic point for genre.

5) Identify your weakest question and write three bullet points that would improve on your original response. Use the mark scheme and exemplar paper to identify these points - particularly focusing on the anticipated content and the top level descriptors.

Q2 social and cultural context

- In the Ill Manors poster the character possibly reflects social concerns over criminal gangs in
urban settings.
- Nike advert is deliberately ambiguous with character’s anonymity allowing anyone to
imagine themselves as the winner of the ‘Showdown’, working hard to succeed.
- Both grounded in working class British culture but perhaps inadvertently reinforcing
negative stereotypes around this. The looming council estate towers in the Ill Manors poster
emphasizes this. In the Nike advert there is also a council estate in the background.

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