History at KS4

Exam Information

The exam board we use is Edexcel.

The History department have created a Google Classroom to store all Year 11 revision materials. Year 11 students have automatically been added, all they need to do is log on to Google Classroom and enter their school email and password. The following resources can be found in the Google Classroom:

  • Past exam papers and mark schemes
  • PowerPoints reminding students how to answer the questions
  • PowerPoint of key content for each topic
  • Revision lists
  • Revision strategies
Paper 1  - 1 hour 15 minutes - 30% - 52 marks

Section A: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

Section B: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present

Paper 2  - 1 hour 45 minutes. - 40% - 64 marks

Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588

Superpower Relations, The Cold War, 1945-1991

 

Paper 3  - 1 hour 20 minutes - 30% - 52 marks

Weimar & Nazi Germany, 1918-1939