Component 2 Question 3: music videos — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Component 2 Question 3: music videos
Answering the Section B questions
What you need to know
The 20-mark extended response on the two contemporary videos studied, judging their media language or representation and referring to contexts; no video is shown in the exam.
How it is marked (AO2: analysis, judgements and conclusions), and how to keep an argument about how far going across both videos, with specific social groups and specific moments.
The 2025 question on how far music videos represent social issues and the 2026 question on how far the videos challenge stereotypes of social groups.
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.
Timing: about 40 minutes for Section B.
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.
Back readings of class, gender and ethnicity with specific evidence from the products, as the mark schemes reward.
