OCR GCSE History B History Around Us overview quiz quiz

The centre (school) chooses its own historic site

OCR sets one national site that every centre must study that year

Each individual student picks whatever site they personally like

The local government decides the historic site for the centre

As a piece of non-examined coursework marked by the centre

As Paper 2, 1 hour, 40 marks plus 10 SPaG

As one section within Paper 1 alongside the depth study

As a spoken assessment recorded and sent to OCR

Nothing useful at all about the people who built the site

Only the exact weather conditions on the day it was built

The full names of the individual builders and labourers

The wealth and status of the builders and often the date

Its function or purpose

Its owner's name

The year it was demolished

The local population

It is always complete and survives in perfect condition

It is often incomplete and can be read in more than one way

It never survives long enough to be of any use to historians

It is always written down clearly for the historian to read

Only in the present day and never in the past

Only at the precise moment the site was first built

At the time, over time, and today

Only in the distant future once it has been excavated

Historians never disagree once the site has been studied

The physical site keeps changing its shape over the years

Only because some historians deliberately tell lies

Different evidence, purposes and gaps in the remains

Weigh the evidence it rests on and judge which view is better supported

Dismiss it straight away as biased without looking at any of its evidence

Always agree with whatever the official site guidebook happens to say

Ignore the physical remains and rely only on your own opinion of the site

4 marks

16 marks

8 marks

30 marks

On the short 4-mark describe two features question only

On the source utility question about the historic site

On the extended 'How far do you agree' judgement

Spread evenly across every question on the whole paper

A long essay covering the entire history of the whole site

Only a single feature described in very great detail

A long list naming every single feature of the site

Two precise features, each linked to a purpose

It is rewarded by the 10 SPaG marks

It does not matter at all to your final mark

It only matters for the questions on Paper 1

It can replace your historical knowledge entirely