Well, it all comes down to the content you do at school. However, in general, yearly essay questions will either give a statement, and you are required to analyse that statement and justify whether or not you agree with the question. That will become your thesis for your essay. In your response, you will then need to support your evidence with your prescribed and related texts.
This is a typical essay-styled question about representation, which is a Module C content-based essay question:
"Representations infuse the real, the remembered, and imagined with personal perspective.
Discuss in relation to TWO of the texts that you have been studied"
