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Written exam paper

Written exam

2 hours

2 hours

84 marks (including four marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

106 (including six marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

50% of GCSE

50% of the GCSE

Section A Period Study:

• 40 marks
• Students answer six questions.
• The first three questions test interpretations (AO4).
• The fourth question tests their knowledge and understanding (AO1). It will ask students to describe two issues.
• The fifth question will ask students to test AO1 with AO2 (explanation and analysis of historical events and periods using second-order concepts) and will focus on change.
• The final question will also target AO1 and AO2 and will an essay   requiring a judgement.

Part 1 British Study in Depth

• 53 marks (including three marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar)
• Students answer 5 questions.
• The first question will target source analysis (AO3). Students will be asked select information from two sources.
• The second question will target AO3 and AO1 (knowledge and understanding).
• The third question will target AO1  and AO2 (explanation and analysis of historical events and periods using second-order concepts). It will ask students to explain significance of a given issue.
• The fourth question will target AO1 and AO2 and ask students to explain connections between identified features.
• The final question will be an essay question that will ask students to evaluate how far they agree with a given interpretation (AO4) using their knowledge and understanding (AO1) and the interpretation.

Section B Wider World Depth Study:

• The section is worth 44 marks (including four marks for spelling,   punctuation and grammar).
• Students answer four questions.
• The first question will ask sources to analyse a source (AO3).
• The second question will ask students to evaluate the usefulness of two sources for a given issue (AO3).
• The third question will test AO1 and AO2 and ask students to write a structure account.
• The final question will also test AO1 and AO2. It will be an essay   requiring a judgement.

Part 2 Non-British Studies in depth

• The part is worth 53 marks (including three marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar).
• Students answer 5 questions.
• The first question will target AO3 (sources) and AO1 (knowledge and understanding).
• The second question will ask students to evaluate the purpose of a given source. It will target AO3 (sources) and AO1 (knowledge and understanding).
• The third question will ask students to evaluate two interpretations (AO4) using the interpretation and their own knowledge and understanding (AO1).
• The fourth question will ask students to evaluate the usefulness of two sources. It will target AO3 (sources) and AO1 (knowledge and understanding).
• The final question will be an essay question that will ask students to evaluate how far they agree with a given interpretation (AO4) using their knowledge and   understanding (AO1) and the interpretation.

Written exam

Written exam

2 hours

2 hours

84 marks (including 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

104 (including 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar)

50% of the GCSE

50% of the GCSE

Section A Thematic Study

• This section is worth 44 marks (including 4 marks for spelling,   punctuation and grammar).
• Students answer four questions.
• The first question tests sources (AO3). It will ask the students to evaluate the usefulness of one source.
• The second question will target AO1 (knowledge and understanding) and AO2 (explanation of second order concepts). It will ask students to explain the significance of a key event, person/group or development at the time and   importance over time.
• The third question will also target AO1 (knowledge and understanding) and AO2 (explanation of second order concepts). It will ask students to explain similarity or difference of two key events, individuals/groups or developments.
• The fourth question will be an essay question requiring a judgement. It will target AO1 and AO2.

Part 1 Period Studies

• This section is worth 40 marks.
• Students will answer 5 questions.
• The first question will ask students to describe a given feature. It will target knowledge and understanding (AO1).
• The second question will target AO1 (knowledge and understanding) and AO2 (explanation of second order concepts) and will focus on change.
• The third question will target AO1 and AO2 and will ask students to explain the relative   significance/importance of three historical features or developments.
• The fourth question will target AO1 and AO2 and will ask students to give an explanation of a given issue.
• The final question will be an essay requiring a judgement. It will target AO1 and AO2.

Section B British Depth Study

• This section is worth 40 marks.
• Students answer four questions.
• The first question tests one interpretation (AO4).
• The second question will ask student to explain a given issue and will target AO1 and AO2.
• The third question will test AO1 and AO2 and ask students to write a structure account.
• The final question will also test AO1 and AO2. It will be an essay requiring a judgement. The question will focus on the Historic Environment.

Part 2 Thematic Study

• This section is worth 64 marks (including 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar).
• Students answer four questions.
• The first question asks students to identify one similarity and one difference (AO2) using three sources (AO3).
• The second question will ask students to evaluate two sources using their own knowledge and understanding (AO1) and the sources (AO3).
• The third question will ask students to describe an historical issue using their own knowledge and understanding (AO1).
• The fourth question will ask students to explain a given issue and will target AO1 and AO2.
• The fifth question will ask students to produce an extended narrative discussion of an issue whilst analysing the nature and extent of change or continuity. It will target AO1 and AO2.
• The final question will have two parts. The first part will ask students to describe key   features of a specified historic site (AO1). The second part will ask   students to provide an explanation and analysis of the way in which the specified historic site demonstrates continuity and/or change for a given issue (AO1 and AO2) and in doing this, its significance.

Section A Period Study

Part 1 British studies in depth

Students take one of the following options:

1A America, 1840–1895: Expansion and Consolidation

• Expansion: opportunities and challenges
• Conflict across America
• Consolidation: forging the nation

1B Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship

• Germany and the growth of democracy
• Germany and the depression
• The experiences of Germans under the Nazis

1C Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism

• The end of Tsardom
• Lenin’s new society
• Starlin’s USSR

1D America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality

• American people and the ‘Boom’
• Bust – Americans’ experiences of the Depression and New Deal
• Post-war America.

Students take one of the following options:

• 1A. Conflict and Upheaval: England, 1337-1381
  • England in the fourteenth century
  • The start of the Hundred Years’ War
  • The course of the War Years’ War?
  • The Black Death
  • Legacy of the Black Death
  • Peasant discontent
  • Peasants’ Revolt
• 1B. The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603
  • Elizabethan government
  • Lifestyles of rich and poor
  • Popular entertainment
  • The problem of religion
  • The Catholic threat
  • The Spanish Armada
  • The Puritan threat
• 1C. Empire, Reform and War: Britain, 1890-1918
  • The Second Boer War
  • Political developments
  • Social reform
  • Women’s suffrage
  • Culture and fashion
  • The Western Front
  • Impact of the First World War
• 1D. Austerity, Affluence and Discontent: Britain, 1951-1979
  • Britain in the early 1950s
  • The end of austerity
  • Popular entertainment and fashion
  • Changing lives of women
  • Changing attitudes to authority
  • Immigration
  • Political and economic problems

Section B Wider World Depth Study

Students take one of the following options:

Conflict and tension, the First World War, 1894–1918

• The causes of the First World War
• The First World War: stalemate
• Ending the war

Conflict and tension, the Interwar Years, 1918–1939

• Peace making
• The League of Nations and international peace
• The origins and outbreak of the Second World War

Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972

• The origins of the Cold War
• The development of the Cold War
• Transformation of the Cold War

Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975

• Conflict in Korea
• Escalation of conflict in Vietnam
• The ending of conflict in Vietnam

Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan

• Tensions in the Gulf
• The war on Al-Qaeda
• The Iraq War.

Part 2 Non-British Studies in Depth

Students take one of the following options:

1E. The Crusades, c.1095-1149

• The power of the papacy
• Birth of the Crusades
• The First Crusade
• The Crusader Kingdoms
• The Second Crusade
• Importance of the Crusades
• Social and cultural effects of the Crusades

1F. The Voyages of Discovery and Conquest of the Americas, 1492-1522

• Reasons for the voyages of discovery
• Voyages of Columbus
• The explorers
• The Aztec civilization
• Hernan Cortes
• Defeat of the Aztecs
• Effects of the Spanish conquest

1G. Germany in Transition, 1919-1939

• Impact of the First World War
• Recovery of Weimar
• End of the Weimar Republic
• Consolidation of power
• Nazi economic, social and racial policy
• Terror and persuasion
• Hitler’s foreign policy

1H. The USA: A Nation of Contrasts, 1910-1929

• Immigration
• Religion and race
• Crime and corruption
• Economic boom
• The end of prosperity
• Popular entertainment
• Role of women

Students are required to study one option from 1A-D and one option from 1E-H. The two options studied must be from different historical eras (Medieval, 500-1500; Early Modern, 1450-1750; and Modern, 1700-present).

Section A Thematic Study

Part 1 Period Studies

Students take one of the following options:

Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day

• Medicine stands still
• The beginnings of change
• A revolution in medicine
• Modern medicine

Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day

• Challenging authority and feudalism
• Challenging royal authority
• Reform and reformers
• Equality and rights

Britain: Migration, empires and people: c790 to the present day

• Conquered and conquerors
• Looking West
• Expansion and empire
• Britain in the 20^th century.

2A. The Development of the USA, 1929-2000

• Economic downturn and recovery
• The economic impact of the Second World War and post-war developments
• The issue of Civil Rights 1941–1970
• Political change 1960–2000
• Social change 1950–2000
• Cold War rivalry
• The search for world peace since 1970

2B. The Development of Germany, 1919–1991

• Weimar Germany
• The Rise of the Nazi Party and its consolidation of power between 1933 and 1934
• Life under the Nazis
• Life during the Second World War
• West and East Germany between 1949 and 1991
• Cold War relations
• Co-operation and reconciliation

2C. The Development of the USSR, 1924–1991

• The rule of Stalin
• Changing life under Stalin
• Impact of the Second World War
• Cold War relations, 1945–91
• Political developments, 1953–85
• Political reform under Gorbachev
• The collapse of communism and the break-up of the USSR

2D. The Development of the UK, 1919–1990

• Britain in the Twenties
• Life during the Depression
• The Home Front
• Post-war Britain 1945–60
• The ‘Swinging Sixties’
• The ‘Stuttering Seventies’
• The Thatcher Years

Section B British Depth Study

Part 2 Thematic Study

Students take one of the following options incorporating the study of a specific historic environment:

Norman England, c1066–c1100

• The Normans: conquest and control
• Life under the Normans
• The Norman Church and monasticism
• The historic environment of Norman England

Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307

• Government, the rights of King and people
• Life in Medieval England
• Edward I’s military campaigns in Wales and Scotland
• The historic environment of Medieval England

Elizabethan England, c1568–1603

• Elizabeth’s court and Parliament
• Life in Elizabethan times
• Troubles at home and abroad
• The historic environment of Elizabethan England

Restoration England, 1660–1685

• Crown, Parliament, plots and court life
• Life in Restoration England
• Land, trade and war
• The historic environment of Restoration England

Students take one of the following options incorporating the study of a specific historic site:

2E. Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day

• Causes of crime
• Nature of crimes
• Enforcing law and order
• Methods of combating crime
• Methods of punishment
• Attitudes to crime and punishment

2F. Changes in Health and Medicine in Britain, c.500 to the present day

• Causes of illness and disease
• Attempts to prevent illness and disease
• Attempts to treat and cure illness and disease
• Advances in medical knowledge
• Developments in patient care
• Developments in public health and welfare

2G. The Development of Warfare in Britain, c.500 to the present day

• Causes of war
• Changes in tactics and strategy
• Training and recruitment
• Changes in technology
• Development of naval warfare
• The role of women in war

2H. Changes in Entertainment and Leisure in Britain, c.500 to the present day

• Development of sport
• Holidays and travel
• Popular entertainment (theatre, stage and screen)
• Popular entertainment (sound and music)
• Childrens’ entertainment
• Cruelty in sport and entertainment