Identifying the Question in you NMT Exam

When the time comes to open up the examination paper for your Audiences & Institutions exam, you must remember a few things that will make it easier to identify what you have to do in order to do well…There are never any surprises in this exam!

First of all, you must make sure that you answer the questions in the correct section – there are two sections in this paper (Section A: New Media Technologies; and Section B: Media Ownership). You have been studying to answer the questions for Section A: New Media Technologies, so it is suggested that you only attempt to answer the questions from this section!

When answering one of the two essay questions, you should bear in mind that essentially – despite the way the question is worded – you will be presented with fundamentally the same question that is asked every year.

These questions are:

1. How does the audience use the technology?
2. How does the media industry use the technology?

The first thing you should do when reading the questions for the first time, is to figure out which question on the examination paper is referring to which of the two questions above.

New Media Technologies are the key ways in which the industry and audience communicate.
Media Industry
Industries produce NMT’s and the services that NMT’s provide for the audience.

NMT
NMT’s allow audiences to access services provided by the media industry.

Audience
Use NMT’s made by the industry to access media texts created by media industries.
Remember to plan your time!!
When completing your comprehension answer in bullet points for the first section (low marks questions) and then expand to a paragraph or so for the higher marked comprehension questions, drawing on your own knowledge of New Media Technologies. You must spend at least 30 minutes answering the essay question in section 2. Remember, you should only answer one of the two questions…do not answer both!

Good luck, ladies & gents!