EPQ Media Studies tutors
2 UK tutors who teach Media Studies at EPQ.
Media Studies at GCSE and A-level (Eduqas, AQA, OCR) covers media language, representations, industries, audiences, and a substantial coursework production component. Set products span print (newspapers, magazines), broadcast (radio, TV), film marketing, video games, online media and music video. Tutoring helps most with the theoretical frameworks (Hall, Gerbner, Todorov, Levi-Strauss, Gauntlett and others; mark schemes reward named theory) and with the production coursework, where students need to demonstrate intentional decisions, not just technical competence. Look for tutors with media studies or communications backgrounds and explicit board familiarity. Set products differ.
The Extended Project Qualification is a Level 3 standalone qualification taken alongside A-levels (typically in Year 12 or Year 13) and is worth half an A-level (up to 28 UCAS points at A*). Students choose their own topic and produce either a 5,000-word dissertation, or an artefact / performance accompanied by a 1,000-word report, plus a production log and a viva-style presentation. AQA's spec (7993) is the largest by a wide margin (~40,000 entries/year in England); Pearson Edexcel (Dissertation P301, Investigation P302, Performance P303, Artefact P304), OCR (H856) and WJEC / Eduqas also offer it. Tutoring on EPQ is closer to academic-research mentoring than subject teaching: research-question scoping, source evaluation and citation discipline, dissertation structure, statistical analysis where relevant, and viva preparation. Look for tutors with degree-level research experience in the project's topic area; subject-specialist A-level tutors don't always cover the dissertation craft well.
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