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Understanding the Page Layout Example Question. Assessment Criteria: this is what is being

Understanding the Page Layout Example Question. Assessment Criteria: this is what is being tested in the question. Example Answer: the blue text gives examples of different levels of an answer. The black italicised text shows the Edexcel mark scheme used for the level.

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Understanding the Page Layout Example Question. Assessment Criteria: this is what is being

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  1. Understanding the Page Layout Example Question. Assessment Criteria: this is what is being tested in the question. Example Answer: the blue textgives examples of different levels of an answer. The black italicised text shows the Edexcel mark scheme used for the level. The Top Tip gives pointers on improving your answers. .

  2. There are a seven rules that apply to every single exam answer. • Answer the actual question.This may sound obvious, but if you don’t do this, you can’t get good marks. • Stop and think before you start writing an answer. • Planning exactly what you are writing about will help you to get the best marks. • Always use the words of the question at the beginning and in your answer.This will help you to focus an actually answering the set question. • Frequently check that you are still answering the set question how it actually asks you to. • Timing. Divide the minutes available by the total marks to find out how much time to spend on each answer. • Planning. This is essential for your answers to questions 3, 4 and 5, as they involve writing an essay. • Answer the right number of questions. In this exam, all of the questions are compulsory. • Question 1 carries 6 marks. What can you learn from Source A about life in Britain in 1942 ? • Question 2 carries 8 marks. Why was this newspaper article published? • Question 3 carries 10 marks. Do sources A and B support the evidence of Source C about the impact of the welfare state? • Question 4 carries 10 marks. How reliable are sources D and E as evidence of people’s experience of the welfare state? • Question 5 carries 16 marks. “The introduction of the welfare state was a change that was welcomed by everyone.” • How far do the sources in the paper support this statement?

  3. Example Questions Question 1 Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about life in Britain in 1942 ? 6 marks Question 2 8 marks Study Source B and use your own knowledge. Why was this newspaper article published? Use details from the source and your own knowledge to explain your answer. Question 3 10 marks Study Sources A, B and C. Do Sources A and B support the evidence of Source C about the impact of the welfare state? Explain your answer using the sources. Question 4 10 marks Study Sources D and E and use your own knowledge. How reliable are sources D and E as evidence of people’s experience of the welfare state? Explain your answer, using Sources D and E and your own knowledge. Question 5 16 marks Study all the sources (A to F) and use your own knowledge. “The introduction of the welfare state was a change that was welcomed by everyone.” How far do the sources in the paper support this statement? Use details from the sources and your own knowledge to explain your answer.

  4. What should I revise? Question 1 Is a source comprehension and inference and inference support question. Tip: No factual revision is required, but review the example answer and make sure that you understand about inferences and how to support conclusions. Question 2 Is a source comprehension and interpretation, message and purpose question. This requires that you are able to read and understand Source B, identify and explain its message and then use this to explain why it was produced. To do this you need to think about who produced it and to use your own knowledge of what was happening at the time that it was produced (contextual knowledge). Tip: This question is testing that you have studied the whole syllabus, so it could be on almost anything. Carefully study the example answer to understand how. Question 3 is a comprehension, interpretation, and cross-referencing and recall of knowledge question. This requires you to compare three sources, namely A, B and C. You will be expected to read and interpret the meaning of the sources and to compare them for points of similarity and difference. For the top marks you will be expected to support what you say with evidence drawn from the sources as well as your own contextual knowledge and to consider the degree to which they support each other. Tip: Carefully study the example answer to understand how to answer these questions. It is very important that you focus on what the questions asks you to write about, in this case: “ To what extent do these sources agree about the impact of the welfare state?” Question 4 requires the evaluation of sources for utility and recall of knowledge question. This requires you to make a supported judgement about the usefulness of two sources in order to answer a particular historical enquiry. For the higher marks you will have to discuss the nature (what the source is about and the type of source), the origin of the source (who produced it) and the purpose of the source (why it was produced). Tip: Make sure that you focus on answering the actual question. Study the top level of the example answer comments on “How reliable are sources D and E as evidence of people’s experience of the welfare state?” Study the example answers to understand how to do this. Question 5 assesses your ability to explore the evidence for and against an hypothesis (an unproven statement contained in the question), using all of the sources skills assessed in questions 3 and 4. It also expects recall of knowledge. The question also assesses your quality of written communication. To gain the best marks you will have to provide a balanced answer that uses an introduction and paragraphs to examine the evidence for and against the hypothesis that forms a part of the question. In the case of the example answer: “The introduction of the welfare state was a change that was welcomed by everyone.” Tip: You are advised to plan carefully for this answer for at least 5 minutes, before spending 20 minutes writing the answer. Study the example answer to understand how to do this. Revise topics that lend themselves to different interpretations: what was the worst effect of the Depression, was everyone badly affected by the Depression, what was the worst effect of World War 2, what was the most important result of the war, did everyone welcome the Welfare State?

  5. Source A “Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.”  William Beveridge, Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, 1942 Question 1 Study Source A. What can you learn from Source A about life in Britain in 1942 ? Target: Source comprehension, inference and inference support. Example answer I can learn that there were five giants. Level One (1 mark) Students do no more than copy/paraphrase the source. The report was part of planning for the rebuilding of a better Britain after the war.Level Two (2-3 marks) Makes unsupported inferences. (3 marks for two unsupported inferences). Source A tells me that the report was part of wartime planning for the future because it mentions “five giants on the road of reconstruction”. Many people in Britain must have been poor, because there were “five giants”. Unemployment must have been one of the problems because one of the giant evils is called “idleness”. Level Three (4-6 marks) Makes supported inferences. In this question the examiner will be assessing: Source comprehension (can you understand the source?). Making an inference from the source (find extra information that the source suggests without actually saying it). Inference support (using your own knowledge to explain the inference). Top Tip See how the level 3 example describes what the source shows (level 1), how it makes judgements based on what the source shows (level 2) and how it supports the inferences by explaining how these decisions have been made (level 3). Notice the use of the words from the question and of the word “because” in the answer.

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