The extended essay: SQA Advanced Higher History quiz quiz

12 marks

16 marks

22 marks

25 marks

Neat handwriting

A sustained line of argument

The number of dates used

The length of the introduction

A list of factors in chronological order

Your overall answer to the question, taken in the introduction and sustained throughout

A quotation from a source

The final sentence of the essay

Using accurate evidence

The neutral list: describing factors in turn without arguing a case

Reaching a clear judgement

Taking a position in the introduction

To count the marks

It tells you whether to weigh a factor, judge a stated view, or rank importance

It is not necessary

To find the date range

A date

A claim about the factor's importance

A quotation

A summary of the previous paragraph

Analysing tells the story in order; narrating weighs importance

Analysing weighs importance against the question; narrating tells the story in order

They are the same

Narrating earns more marks

Introduce new factors

Weigh the factors and reach a judgement matching the line of argument

List every date used

Restate the question only

It replaces the argument

It frames each factor and lifts analysis into evaluation

It is banned in essays

It only belongs in the conclusion

Weaving historians into factor paragraphs

The isolated block of names that the argument then ignores

Evaluating interpretations against the evidence

Positioning the judgement within the debate

To list historians at the end

To bring an interpretation in at the point the argument needs it, inside the factor paragraph

To quote a historian in the introduction only

To avoid historians entirely

A date

A distinct cause, condition or influence bearing on the question

A quotation

A historian's name

It is too short

It guarantees narration, telling the story in order instead of weighing factors

It uses too many historians

It has no introduction

Announced as an opinion at the end

Positioned within the debate, stating which interpretation the evidence best supports after testing the views

Left for the reader to decide

Avoided to stay balanced

40 of 90 marks

50 of 90 marks

25 of 90 marks

90 of 90 marks