Exams Skills- Question (a) and (b)
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- Exams Skills Guide
- Question (b)
- You need an evaluation of the sources but in context to the interpretation,
- Revision of key issues will help you interpret the sources and identify what each is saying
- This then allows you to group the sources into those who support the interpretation and that that don't,
- Ensure the question is source led- Look at the source and what it says and evaluate this by considering the nature of the source and your own knowledge,
- Offer a clear judgement on the key issue in question which should follow logically from what you have said about the sources,
- Ensure you deal with the debate during the planning to ensure you have a clear view about the sources by the end,
- Tyr to use contextual data and apply it to the sources despite specific details mentioned in the sources you don't know,
- Key Skills
- Show you know hat the issue discussed is,
- Group the sources together and explain their views,
- Strengthen and weaken to evaluate on:
- Own Knowledge
- Provenance
- Cross Reference,
- Content- Quote,
- Question (a)
- You need a comparison of what the sources say about a given issue,
- You needs to ensure a comparison on provenance occurs,
- the nature,
- The origin,
- The purpose
- The audience,
- Key comparative questions
- When were the sources written?
- Significant in terms of what might have happened to change the authors views,
- What are they?
- What is the audience and why was the source produced?
- Is the source typical?
- Is the source reliable?
- How useful is the source as evidence?
- Assess this and make a judgement about which of the sources are more useful,
- Assess pros and cons of each source,
- When were the sources written?
- Make point by point comparisons- don't just write too much about any one source,
- Make a brief plan to help isolate the key similarities and differences,
- Most of the marks are for evaluation as evidence, commenting on their provenance as well as content to make a judgement on their value,
- Question (b)
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