Source Essay Questions
- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 08-04-13 19:59
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- Source questions
- The sources should drive your answer but additional material should be introduced to develop, challenge or supplement
- Weigh up the sources and reach an overall judgement
- Planning and thinking is a very important part and you should take around 15-20 minutes
- 16 marks are for own knowledge and 24 for the ability to assess and evaluate interpretations at A2 (opposite at AS)
- Examiner tips
- Candidates need to integrate source material and own knowledge more effectively to substantiate a particular view
- Treat the sources as a package to facilitate cross-referencing and advance a convincing line of argument
- Avoid a source 10 says this.. source 11 says this.. approach as it will limit you to a D
- Candidates need to avoid memorised 'perspective' essays and base their response on the issued raised - the question is an interpretation not a historiography
- Candidates should not provide extensive and unnecessary accounts of the provenance of each source
- When planning your answer, read through the sources carefully and list all the support and challenge points you can to help you cross-reference
- Sentences to use
- The sources suggest...
- There is strong support for___ and sources 5 and 6 show this..
- Source 7 backs this up...
- Similarly source 2 indicates...
- Source 3 claims in contrast that...
- This support was not universal, source 4 shows that...
- I agree to a significant extent with source 1 because...
- Overall, I do not think it is fair to say...
- Source 8 may be exaggerated due to...
- Use the words posed in the question to give an analytical approach
- The best essays are based on careful plans
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