Component 1 Questions 3 and 4: industries and audiences — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Component 1 Questions 3 and 4: industries and audiences
Answering the Section B questions
What you need to know
Section B's two stepped questions: Question 3 on media industries in one form and Question 4 on audiences in a different form, each moving from short recall items worth one to five marks to an explanation of about 12 marks referring to a set product.
How they are marked (AO1: knowledge and understanding of the framework), and the synoptic part, which rewards drawing on the whole course.
Recall items: give one answer when one is asked for, since listing several scores nothing.
Keeping industry and audience answers apart: Uses and Gratifications belongs in audience answers.
The 2025 and 2026 questions on the 007 website, Fortnite and The Sun website, with model answers and the mark an examiner would give each.
Timing: about 35 minutes for the section.
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.
