The 5-mark context question on one set product, always in a different form from Question 1: explaining how a social, cultural, historical or political context influences the form, with the set product as evidence.
How it is marked (AO1: knowledge and understanding of contexts), and the commonest mistakes: writing about the product's effect on society instead of the context's influence on the product, treating cultural context as if it meant only ethnicity, and running 2(a) into 2(b).
The 2025 question on social and cultural contexts and the Vogue cover, and contexts questions practised on each Section A product.
A question set out as Eduqas sets it, with its wording and marks, and a model answer with the band 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 set products for 2027 and 2028 exams are the Vogue and GQ covers; the Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die posters; the Guardian of 18 January 2022 and the Sun of 1 January 2021 (2027 exams only), then the Guardian of 6 May 2025 and the Sun of 22 March 2025 (2028 exams); the Quality Street and NHS 111 adverts; the Sun, Desert Island Discs, No Time to Die and Fortnite for industries and audiences; Trigger Point with The Sweeney, or Man Like Mobeen or Modern Family with Friends; and Lizzo or Taylor Swift, Stormzy or Justin Bieber, and Rio or Waterfalls. This Girl Can, The Archers and Luther were last set for 2026 exams, so past questions on them are practice only.
