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History 4010 考试技巧
A2 History drops candidates who lapse into narrative rather than argument, examiner reports say so on nearly every script. See exactly how the two A2 papers are timed and marked, and how to structure both for the top level.
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试卷概览
卷数
2
总分
120
考试时间
3小时 45分钟
题型
12
| 试卷 | 时间 | 分数 | 题数 | 比重 | 题型 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A2 1: Change Over Time | 1小时 15分钟 | 40 | 1 | 20% | Synoptic thematic essay (AO1) |
| A2 2: Historical Investigations and Interpretations | 2小时 30分钟 | 80 | 4 | 40% | Primary source utility evaluation (AO2), Two-source synthesis essay (AO1/AO2), Historiographical interpretations evaluation (AO3), Depth essay (AO1) |
评级
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计算器规定
No calculator is needed for either A2 History paper. Both units are entirely written response, with no numerical or statistical content.
- AO1: AO1: demonstrate, organise and communicate knowledge and understanding to analyse and evaluate key features, making substantiated judgements and exploring cause, consequence, change, continuity, similarity, difference and significance (58%)
- AO2: AO2: analyse and evaluate appropriate source material, primary and/or contemporary to the period, in its historical context (19%)
- AO3: AO3: analyse and evaluate, in relation to historical context, different ways in which aspects of the past have been interpreted (23%)
根据历届试题与评分标准整理（2022–2025）。
常见错误
- 1high涉及分数: 8A2 1 synoptic essay
Writing the A2 1 synoptic essay around one decade or sub-period instead of the whole specified century.
如何避免: Organise the essay by theme or factor, and show how each one plays out at different points across the whole period, not chronologically by decade. - 2high涉及分数: 5Source evaluation, A2 2 Q1(a)
Evaluating a primary source's utility with a stock phrase, such as calling it biased because it is an eyewitness account, without linking that to what the source can and cannot show.
如何避免: Name the author, date, and audience, then say specifically what that combination allows the source to reveal, and what it cannot. - 3high涉及分数: 6Interpretations, A2 2 Q2
Summarising Interpretation A and Interpretation B one after the other in A2 2 Question 2 without directly comparing them.
如何避免: Write a paragraph testing each interpretation against your own knowledge, then a final paragraph that states which is more convincing and why, engaging with both together. - 4medium涉及分数: 4Source synthesis, A2 2 Q1(b)
Treating the two source extracts in A2 2 Question 1(b) in isolation, without weaving in independent contextual knowledge.
如何避免: Use both sources together in the same paragraph and add at least one fact from outside the sources to support or challenge what they say. - 5medium涉及分数: 4A2 1 synoptic essay
Asserting a trend of change or continuity in the A2 1 essay without specific supporting evidence.
如何避免: Every claim about change needs a named event, date, or figure attached to it. An unsupported claim reads as an assertion, not an argument. - 6medium涉及分数: 3Interpretations, A2 2 Q2
Assuming full marks in the interpretations question requires declaring one historian entirely right and dismissing the other.
如何避免: Acknowledge what the weaker interpretation still gets right before explaining why the other is, on balance, more convincing. - 7medium涉及分数: 5Time management
Running out of time on the final question of A2 2 after over-writing the earlier source questions.
如何避免: Both A2 papers run at just under two minutes a mark. Time each question against that figure rather than writing until you feel finished.
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