GCSE HISTORY

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GCSE HISTORY

• EXAM
• BUSTING

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• Tip - Look for the number of marks on offer. If
  there are only a couple of marks, make a couple
  of quick points and move on.
• Tip If there are several marks, the examiner
  is expecting you to go beyond what you can see or
  read. You are expected to infer information from
  the sources.

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES
Two of the Kings doctors opened a vein in his
right arm and drew off about 16 ounces of blood.
The next day, the doctors considered it necessary
to open both jugular veins and drew off about 10
ounces of blood.
Source A Medieval doctor bleeding a patient.
Source B The treatment of King Charles II in
1685.

• In what ways do sources A and B show agreement in
  their ideas about the causes of illness? (2 marks)

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• In what ways do sources A and B show agreement in
  their ideas about the causes of illness? (2 marks)

How many marks? 2 so make a couple of quick
points and move on.

• Doctors in both periods treated patients by
  bleeding.
• This was because they both believed in
  Hippocrates Theory of the Four Humours.

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• What can you learn from this source about Stone
  Age medicine? (5 marks)

How many marks? 5 so what can you infer from the
source about Stone Age medicine?

• Evidence of surgery?
• Reason release of evil spirits?
• Importance of the brain?

A prehistoric skull.
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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• What can you learn about the life and work of
  cowboys from this source? (5 marks)

How many marks? 5 so what can you infer from the
source about the life and work of cowboys?

• Some were black. Why?
• Hard-wearing clothes. Why?
• Armed. Why?

Nat Love, a black American cowboy
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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES
Avoid baths which open the pores of the skin
because pores are doorways through which
poisonous air can enter the body. If the plague
occurs in hot weather, you must eat cold things.
Source B Flagellants whipping each other.
Source A Book written at the time of the Black
Death, explaining how to avoid catching it.

• In what ways do these sources contain different
  ideas about the causes of the Black Death? (5
  marks)

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• In what ways do these sources contain different
  ideas about the causes of the Black Death? (5
  marks)

How many marks? 5 so what can you infer from the
sources about ideas on the cause of the Black
Death?

• Source A avoid hot baths. Why? Eat cold foods
  in hot weather. Why?
• Source B whip each other. Why?
• Difference in approach?

• Source A avoid hot baths. Why? Eat cold foods
  in hot weather. Why?
• Source B whip each other. Why?
• Difference in approach?

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Questions that ask you to UNDERSTAND SOURCES

• In what ways do these sources contain different
  ideas about the causes of the Black Death? (5
  marks)

• What is the examiner looking for?
• Level 1 Describes what the sources say or show.
  (1 mark)
• Level 2 Compares the 2 sources but only on the
  basis of what they show. (2-3 marks)
• Level 3 Compares the 2 sources in terms of what
  they reveal about ideas of the causes of the
  Black Death. (4-5 marks)