antidisestablishment tendencies in Fascist agricultural policy

Question 1

what did the examiners emphasise when viewing a source’s prominence (2019)

Answer 1

The limitations of a particular source - why it talks about why it does and why it doesn’t mention what it doesn’t.

Question 2

What did the examiners mention was a bad habit on source questions (2019)

Answer 2

Students going away from the context of the question to bring in additional and irrelevant knowledge

Question 3

quote: scepticism of sources

Answer 3

“All students should be encouraged to approach the
sources with a degree of scepticism, appropriate to the issue and context”

Question 4

what is a central aspect of successful essay questions according to the examiner

Answer 4

Creating and evaluating links and connections between different groups within Italy
Eg. the biennio rosso and its interaction with italy’s inflation and economic downturn

Question 5

what answers are typically least popular according to examiners

Answer 5

Answers focusing on the very early years of the Italian republic and answers focusing on the very late period of fascist Italy (1943-1945)

Question 6

What is a common failure of lower-scoring answers

Answer 6

Overreliance on events outside of the time period
references and extrapolations are ok but reliance is not.

Question 7

time periods addressed on the 2020 paper

Answer 7

rise of fascism 1920 to 1922
1911 to 1914 and socialism
1930s police state
1936-1939 and nazi germany

Question 8

time periods addressed in the 2019 paper

Answer 8

catholic church and italy 1929 ish
1919 to 1921 economic instability
1922 to 1926 and consolidation of power
1943 to 1945 - collapse of fascism within Italy

Question 9

Acronym for answering source questions

Answer 9

PAT - provenance, argument, Tone

Question 10

Time balances between different types of essays

Answer 10

Source question - one hour
essay - 45 minutes
essay 2 - 45 minutes