Essay Questions

Long Answer Questions

Step 1 - Highlight the Key terms

​A gaming company decides to release a new video games console. The console will use a modified version of an operating system called Linux.

​ “Video games have a negative effect on those who play them.”

​Discuss whether or not you agree with this statement showing you have considered both points of view.

Draw

Highlight Keywords

Do you know and understand the content/context of the question

AO1 Knowledge and Understanding

Know how you are being assessed

Can you apply your knowledge to the content/context of the question. This will include positives and negatives

AO2 Application

Having considered both sides, have you reached a “supported judgement” based on the evidence provided in your response.

AO3 Evaluation

• Who are the stakeholders?

• What is the technology?

• What are the drawbacks? (at least 3)

• What are the benefits? (at least 3)

• Provide evidence and link you points to examples

• Relate points to your stakeholders

• Evaluate your opinion/judgement, relating back to you points.

Plan your answer

Open Ended

Who are the stakeholders

Open Ended

What is the technology?

Open Ended

What are the drawbacks (3)

Open Ended

What are the benefits (3)

Open Ended

What evidence can you link to your points (examples etc.)

Open Ended

How can you relate your points to your stakeholders?

Open Ended

What is your evaluation? Which points show this?

Get Stakeholders, drawbacks and benefits.

Think of some examples.

Anything you feel will help build your argument.

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Plan

This is an alternative example

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Alternative example

Start Writing - Introduce your answer

In your introduction you should reference/define some of the keywords you have highlighted and stakeholders you identified. This will show you understand what has been asked of you. In this example, this would include:

• Gaming Industry - Games, Consoles, Recent Developments/Growth

• Gamers, Developers, Adults/Parents, Children

• Effects that have been publicised and how there are both positive and negative effects.

Open Ended

Write your introduction:

Start your arguments

After you have shown you understand what has been asked of you, start discussing the arguments. YOU MUST make arguments for BOTH sides. Link every argument to an example showing you understand.

For Example: Children become less social because of gaming - more children spend more time in rooms or stuck to a device playing games rather than interacting with the people they are physically with.

Open Ended

Write a point about a Benefit of gaming

Open Ended

Write a point about a drawback of gaming

Evaluate

​State your opinion (if asked for)

Make sure you refer to the points you made

Poll

Do you agree with the statement?

“Video games have a negative effect on those who play them.”

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Open Ended

Write your evaluation - refer to the point you made earlier