The 20-mark extended response across both television Close Study Products, often on representation or audiences, with contexts.
Answering the question set: the 2025 question asked about class and ethnicity, and many candidates wrote about gender instead.
Using specific moments from both episodes and their contexts, 1963 and 2020, to reach a judgement.
Class, which examiners say candidates handle least well: strong answers contrast the middle-class teachers with the aloof, superior Doctor in 'An Unearthly Child', and the elitist Magisterium and Mrs Coulter, as villains, with Will and Lyra in His Dark Materials.
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.
