GCSE

2. Question 1: What is your age?
This means that I will have to target my
magazine more on teenagers 17 to 18 and
also on the older people. However, there
were also other people who are a different
age, this is shown on my graph so I will
need to cover these ages in order for my
magazine to also relate to them.
Question one is relevant for my school
magazine as I would need to know who I’m
going to focus for my target audience and
see the variations of people I get
depending on the age. On my graph there
were 21 responses and by having these
many responses it gives me more of an
idea on what age the person taking the
survey may be. As you can see the majority
of the people who took the survey were 17
to 18 years old and also some of them
were 75 or older.

3. Question 2 : What is your gender?
This question is significant for my school magazine as I would like to know
whether the person is male or female and if they have chosen ‘not to specify’
then this indicates that the person may not be comfortable in saying what their
gender is. By having these different results this suggests that I will have to focus
my school magazine on all genders and not just one or else this wont attract my
readers to buy the magazine.
In my results there were
more female than there
were men, this suggests
that maybe more females
may be more interested in
magazines rather than
men. However, I will still
be equally targeting the
magazine on all genders
to attract more readers to
buy my magazine.

4. Question 3: How often do you buy a magazine?
This question is useful because it tells me how often they buy a magazine, this
suggests that if the person buys the magazine daily then they’re most likely to
purchase one and read it. If they have chosen they have never brought a
magazine there’s a small chance that they may buy a school magazine as it may
not interest them or they may generally not be into reading magazines.
As you can see my results
mostly say that people often
buy a magazine as the majority
have chosen ‘every week’ and
‘every month’. Both these
results have the same
percentage (23.81%) so this
suggests that the people who
have done my survey may be
interested in purchasing my
school magazine daily.

5. Question 4: How much would you pay for a
magazine?
This question tells me how much the person would be willing to pay for a
magazine. By having this question it gives me an idea on how much I’m going to
have my magazine at. This is relevant because if I made my magazine too
Expensive then the audience
may not be willing to pay for
the magazine and this
wouldn’t benefit me as I
wouldn’t be selling the
magazine. By making it
affordable, the user can be
able to easily purchase the
magazine. As you can see the
options ‘£1.00’ and ‘£3.00 or
more’ have the same results
so I’m going to have to focus
the price on either £1.00 or
£3.00.

6. Question 5: What would you most want to be
notified about?
This question gives me an idea on what people would want to be notified about.
This is relevant because I will be able to know what to include in my magazine, if
I just wrote about anything in the school magazine then it may not target the right
audience.
By having a selection of options and
multiple choices the audience can be
able to have more than one topic to be
notified about rather than just one; this
gives people a choice.
I have chosen relevant options so it can
relate to the school magazine I’m doing.
For my magazine I’m going to choose
maybe 2 or three of these options, based
on which one was the most popular
which were the schools lunch menu,
information about exams and after school
clubs/activities.

7. Question 6: If there was advice given in the
magazine, what advice would you like to see?
This question is relevant for my
school magazine as it gives me an
indication on what people may
need consultation on. The most
popular one was ‘revision tips’, this
may be due to the amount of teens
who did my survey so they may
need advice on revising due to
their upcoming exams. Also,
learning difficulties and advice on
bullying are popular options so I
may have to include these topics
as well to attract more readers and
giving them more to read about.

8. Question 7: What title/name would interest you
the most for a school magazine?
This is relevant because by having
an interesting title/name it’ll
capture the readers attention. If the
title was plain and straightforward
it wouldn’t attract the reader since
it would be boring.
33.33% of the people who took my
survey chose the endeavour, the
reason they may have chosen this
is because it sounds intriguing
instead of just the school name
and the title that was most popular
is inspired by the schools prayer
so if people know the school or go
there it gives them a personal
relationship because they can be
able to identify on what school it’s
going to be.

9. Question 8: What colour theme would you like for
the magazine?
This is relevant as you would like
appropriate colours for the school
magazine to attract and intrigue the
readers, if it was mainly blacks and
greys this wouldn’t attract them as
they are quite boring and bland
colours. I have chosen bold colours
for each option as this will make my
school magazine more lively and
vibrant to capture their eye. The most
popular on was reds, pinks and white
as 33.33% people chose this option
so I will have to focus on these
colours to satisfy the audience.

10. Question 9: What subject most fascinates you in
reading about?
The reason I have put this question in for
survey is because people may be
interested in finding out about certain
school subjects and what each year may
be learning about. In my results, the lowest
vote was maths, this suggests that I can
still include maths but I may do a small
section on this subject as the most popular
one was English (42.86%) this tells me my
audience is more interested in this subject,
so I’m going to have to focus on writing
more about English.
By including all these subjects in my
school magazine it gives people a choice
to see what they may want information on
rather than having just one subject
because they won’t be able to access the
information easily as each person may not
be interested in just English.

11. Question 10: How many pages long would you
like the magazine to be?
This question will help me for my
school magazine as it gives me an
idea on how many pages I should
have my magazine up to. The
most popular option was 51 to 60
(33.33%) and the reason people
may have chosen this is because
it gives people more of an option
to read on different things and
they can be able to choose what
they read instead of having just a
small amount it would be boring
and it wouldn’t interest the reader
as much since they have little
options of what they may want to
know about.