Questions

Question 0

What kind of question will question 1 ask?

Answer 0

What can you learn from Source A about ….. ?

Question 1

What is question 1?

Answer 1

Inference question

Question 2

How do you answer question 1?

Answer 2

Two supported inferences.
Link what the source says to the question.
Explain the link you made.
Don’t just repeat what the source says.

Question 3

What is making an inference?

Answer 3

Working something out from what the source says/shows.

Question 4

How many marks is question 1?

Answer 4

6

Question 5

What is question 2?

Answer 5

Purpose question

Question 6

What kind of question will question 2 ask?

Answer 6

What is the purpose of this source?

Question 7

How do you answer question 2?

Answer 7

What message is the source giving? (Paragraph 1)
Think about why the source was created. (Paragraph 2)
Is the source pushing one point of view?

Question 8

What is the purpose of a source?

Answer 8

What the source was written or created for, the effect it is trying to achieve.

Question 9

How many marks is question 2?

Answer 9

8

Question 10

What is question 3?

Answer 10

Cross-referencing question

Question 11

What kind of question will question 3 ask?

Answer 11

Study sources A, B and C. How far do these sources agree about … ?
Do these sources support the view that … ?
How far do sources A and B support the evidence of source C about … ?

Question 12

How many marks is question 3?

Answer 12

10

Question 13

If the question asks ‘How far do sources A and B support source C about … ?’ how should you answer it?

Answer 13

Compare A with C
Compare B with C
(Compare content, NOP to show reliability and say to what extent they agree/disagree)

Question 14

If question 3 asks ‘How far do these sources agree about … ?’ how should you answer it?

Answer 14

Say where the sources agree, comparing content and NOP/reliability and say to what extent they agree
Say where the sources disagree, comparing content and NOP/reliability and say to what extent they disagree.

Question 15

What is the reliability of a source?

Answer 15

How far you can trust a source, whether you believe what it says/shows.

Question 16

What is question 4?

Answer 16

Usefulness or reliability question

Question 17

What kind of question will question 4 ask?

Answer 17

How useful/reliable are sources D and E as evidence of … ?

Question 18

What should your answer to question 4 include?

Answer 18

A judgement on usefulness or reliability of the content of both sources.
Also make a judgement about the type of sources they both are, who produced them and why. (NOP)

Question 19

What does NOP stand for?

Answer 19

Nature
Origin
Purpose

Question 20

How many marks is question 4?

Answer 20

10

Question 21

How should you structure your answer to question 4?

Answer 21

Positive/Negavtive/Positive for each source
E.g. Source D is useful because … (content/NOP)
However, the source has some limitations … (content/NOP)
Overall it is useful because … (content/NOP)

Do this for both sources.

Question 22

What can you usually say about a one-sided source?

Answer 22

It is useful because it shows how people thought and why they thought that.
However, if it is one-sided it means that it is not reliable.

Question 23

What can you usually say about a source that is a photo?

Answer 23

It only shows one point in time and doesn’t give enough information.
However, it might be reliable if it looks as if it hasn’t been staged.

Question 24

What is question 5?

Answer 24

Evaluating a hypothesis

Question 25

What kind of question will question 5 ask?

Answer 25

Look at all of the sources. How far do they agree with this statement?
E.g. ‘The March on Washington showed how successful the Civil Rights Movement had become by 1963’ Do the sources agree?

Question 26

What should your answer to question 5 include?

Answer 26

All of the sources
A balanced judgement - which sources support the statement, which challenge it?
Base your judgement on both the content of the sources and how reliable they are.

Question 27

How many marks is question 5?

Answer 27

16

Question 28

How should you structure your answer to question 5?

Answer 28

1) The sources that support the statement best are
(A and B)
Source (A) says … (+brief details from source)
Source (B) says … (+brief details from source)
+ own knowledge for both sources

2) Say how reliable both sources are (could include own knowledge)
3) + 4) Say the same as 1 + 2 but for the sources that disagree.

5) Overall they (agree/disagree).
They are balanced/not balanced because …
(Say whether they are sufficient to make judgement)
But they would be better with … (a type of source)