Edexcel GCSE History exam skills overview quiz quiz

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Three

Seven

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A long, balanced essay that weighs two clearly opposing sides of an argument

A judgement on how reliable a named source actually is

Two separate features, each with one supporting detail

Three fully developed and well supported reasons

Notes, Opinions and Points

Names, Outcomes and Plans

New, Original Provenance

Nature, Origin and Purpose

Say what the source is useful for, not just whether it is reliable

Reject any source that shows clear signs of being biased in any way

Only describe the content of the source and nothing else about it

Ignore the provenance of the source completely

Only your own outside knowledge

A detail from the source

A named historian's view

A precise date

Content, provenance, context, judgement

Cause, event, consequence, judgement

The detail, the question, a source, and how it helps

Introduction, argument, counter-argument, conclusion

It is always older than any source that was made at the actual time of events

It is always completely reliable and free of any bias whatsoever

It is simply a particular type of photograph taken at the time

It is a historian's later overall view, not evidence from the time

They may emphasise different evidence or focus on different aspects

One of the two interpretations is always simply wrong and should be rejected

They were written down on completely different days of the week

They are printed using two clearly different fonts

A plain list of dates set out one after another in the correct order, with no links

A linked, analytical sequence showing how one event led to another

A judgement on how reliable a given source is

A description of one single event in close detail

Two clearly described features, each given one piece of supporting detail

A single opinion stated without any supporting evidence at all

At least three developed reasons with precise evidence

A list of the consequences only, with nothing else added

Repeat the introduction word for word so the examiner sees it twice

List every single fact from the essay all over again in order

Ask a brand new question that the essay has not yet considered

Reach a justified judgement on how far you agree and why

The 16-mark essays

The 4-mark questions

The source utility questions

The inference questions