Yes. OCR publishes a list of set products and rotates them, and for some sections your centre chooses from a list. The guide is cut by the theoretical framework instead, and every set text on OCR’s lists has its own subtopic, so whichever ones you were taught are in here.

Yes. The specification names the academic theories you are assessed on, and a point made without its theorist is credited less than the same point attributed. The guide asks for the theorist, the concept and what it claims separately.

No. Components 03 and 04 are the non-examined production, marked by your centre and worth 30 per cent. It is a practical piece rather than examined content.

The guide covers the two written papers, which are 70 per cent between them.

Component 01, Media Messages, covers news, advertising and marketing, magazines and music video. Component 02, Evolving Media, covers film, radio, video games, long form television drama and online participatory media. The framework and contexts run through both. The topic list shows which is which.

More than most students expect. Media Industries is 214 questions in the guide: ownership, regulation, funding models, distribution, convergence and the specific institutions behind your set products.

About twenty minutes for one subtopic, all three steps.

Write. Media Studies marks turn on naming the theory and applying it to a named product. The method page sets out the evidence.

Yes. The method puts the framework and theorists into memory. Past papers train applying them to an unseen extract under time. OCR publishes them free.

A PDF of 1,986 exam-style questions covering the examined content of OCR A-Level Media Studies, with the answers printed after each topic.

The guide is organised by the theoretical framework and the named theories, which do not change when OCR rotates its set products. Every set text on OCR’s current lists also has its own subtopic.

The written papers are 70 per cent of the grade and they are assessed on named theorists, named concepts and specific industry facts applied to specific products. The creative work is the other 30 per cent and is marked separately.

There should be handwritten answers on paper and three passes over the same questions, and two scores per session to compare.

£7.00 for the whole specification. An endorsed A-Level Media Studies textbook is usually £25 to £35.

143 subtopics at roughly twenty minutes each is about 48 hours for a full first pass, spread across two years.

Past papers, which OCR publishes free, and their own notes on the specific set products their centre chose.