Assessment and exam practice.

Try this with Modern History

1. Check the task format, time limit and permitted materials with your school.
2. Start with one timed section or task and record where you spent the most time.
3. Review errors before attempting another section. Separate missing knowledge from timing problems.

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Practice paper focus areas

• Exam 1 — leaders represented in sources; reliability of a partisan source; Unit 3 turning points
• Exam 2 — ideas as causes; perspective of the author; ideology in Unit 3 electives
• Exam 3 — women and minorities; peasants and workers; usefulness of social sources
• Exam 4 — economic policy; impact on living standards; reliability of statistics-based sources
• Exam 5 — internal divisions; responses to crisis; war and its consequences
• Exam 6 — consolidation of power; government policy; political parties/regimes
• Exam 7 — cartoons and posters; official vs critical views; representation of governments
• Exam 8 — foreign policy; Unit 3 external threats; Unit 4 individuals
• Exam 9 — war and the home front; war and revolution; turning points since 1945
• Exam 10 — continuity and change; economic ties; whole-period coverage
• Exam 11 — leaders' legacies; later interpretations; ideas since 1945
• Exam 12 — nationalism; communism; tension and détente/engagement/peace
• Exam 13 — social groups; civilian experience; causes of conflict
• Exam 14 — economic policy; modernisation; alliances
• Exam 15 — internal division; dissent and repression; leaders for and against change
• Exam 16 — seizing and holding power; institutions; international bodies
• Exam 17 — propaganda; aims vs outcomes; changing relationships to 2001
• Exam 18 — external threats; diplomacy; individuals since 1945
• Exam 19 — war and change; mobilisation; turning points
• Exam 20 — beginning vs end of period; interdependence; synthesis across sources