OCR A-Level History source and interpretation skills overview quiz quiz

Your own analytical argument

The analysis and evaluation of historians' interpretations

Coursework only

The analysis and evaluation of primary sources in context

The analysis and evaluation of historians' interpretations

The evaluation of primary sources in their historical context

Spelling, punctuation and grammar

Your own argument

Whether the source is simply reliable or biased, and then reject it if it is biased

Its value for the specific enquiry, using content, provenance and context

Whether the historian is famous

How long it is

Cause, consequence and change

Who, what and when only

Nature, origin and purpose

Argument, emphasis and evidence

Because propaganda is always completely factually accurate and free from any distortion

Because it has no bias

Because it is recent

Because its purpose makes it valuable for revealing the attitudes it tried to project

Attached to a source or interpretation and used to evaluate it

As long paragraphs of background narrative set apart from the sources themselves

Only in the conclusion

Not at all

It is faster to write

It lets you build an argument about the balance of the evidence and cross-reference the sources

It avoids using provenance

It means you can ignore the context of each individual source and skip evaluating their provenance

You assess its reliability and bias in exactly the same way as a primary source

You ignore the evidence

You judge how convincing its argument is against the evidence

You summarise it and pick a favourite

AO1

AO2

AO4

AO3

AO1

AO2

AO3

They are all equal