Paper 1 Question 9: the extended response — AQA GCSE Media Studies 8572
AQA GCSE Media Studies · 8572
Paper 1 Question 9: the extended response
Paper 1 questions
What you need to know
The 20-mark extended response on a statement about media industries or audiences, answered with the Close Study Products: whether social media influencers with millions of followers are positive role models (2025), whether the video games industry is only concerned with profit (2024), and how far UK radio has changed since 1967 (2023).
How it is marked: knowledge of the framework and of contexts, and judgements and conclusions, in a sustained, coherent line of reasoning.
Planning in a few minutes: taking a position, weighing evidence from two or more Close Study Products, and reaching a conclusion.
A question set out as AQA sets it, with its wording and marks, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give and why, beside a weaker answer and what would lift it.
Sentence starters and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.
The Close Study Products for 2027 and 2028 exams are His Dark Materials ('The City of Magpies') and Doctor Who ('An Unearthly Child'); the Daily Mirror and The Times; Marcus Rashford's and Kim Kardashian's online presence; Lara Croft Go, with Blackpink The Game for 2027 exams and Lego Fortnite for 2028 exams; the Galaxy, Represent and OMO adverts; the Tatler and Heat covers; Black Widow and I, Daniel Blake; the Arctic Monkeys and Blackpink videos; and Radio 1's launch and Kiss Breakfast. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood was set only for 2025, so past questions on it are practice only.
Back readings of class, gender and ethnicity with specific evidence from the products, as the mark schemes reward.
