Elizabeth: How to Answer Questions
Question 1: How convincing is this interpretation? [8 marks]
1. Explode the question:
How convincing?
What’s correct about the interpretation, and why? What are the limitations of this
interpretation, and why? Does it make sense? Does it fit in with what I know? Accurate?
Use interpretation A
Must include phrases/words from Interpretation to comment on/depict certain
elements/explain the points.
Use contextual knowledge
2. Explode the source.
Read through the source and pick out the key arguments.
3. Link to your contextual knowledge.
What evidence is there? What do you know about what it’s saying?
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
Question 2: Importance of x? [8 marks]
Four things to consider about the item’s important:
1. IMPACT
How did they affect the era?
2. CHANGE
What did their existence do to make a difference in the era?
3. DEVELOPMENT
Did their existence cause progress to attitudes about a certain thin?
4. CONSEQUENCE
Did their existence hinder progress? Did their existence have detrimental effects? What were
they?
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
Question 3: Writing an account [8 marks]
Tips:
1) This question focuses on one of the key concepts of cause and consequence, or change and
continuity.
2) Focus on the causes within your account.
3) Write with a structure that is logically sequenced and connected.
4) Include a range of relevant knowledge.
5) Try to extend the complexity of your reasoning.
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
Question 1: How convincing is this interpretation? [8 marks]
1. Explode the question:
How convincing?
What’s correct about the interpretation, and why? What are the limitations of this
interpretation, and why? Does it make sense? Does it fit in with what I know? Accurate?
Use interpretation A
Must include phrases/words from Interpretation to comment on/depict certain
elements/explain the points.
Use contextual knowledge
2. Explode the source.
Read through the source and pick out the key arguments.
3. Link to your contextual knowledge.
What evidence is there? What do you know about what it’s saying?
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
Question 2: Importance of x? [8 marks]
Four things to consider about the item’s important:
1. IMPACT
How did they affect the era?
2. CHANGE
What did their existence do to make a difference in the era?
3. DEVELOPMENT
Did their existence cause progress to attitudes about a certain thin?
4. CONSEQUENCE
Did their existence hinder progress? Did their existence have detrimental effects? What were
they?
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
Question 3: Writing an account [8 marks]
Tips:
1) This question focuses on one of the key concepts of cause and consequence, or change and
continuity.
2) Focus on the causes within your account.
3) Write with a structure that is logically sequenced and connected.
4) Include a range of relevant knowledge.
5) Try to extend the complexity of your reasoning.
2 minutes planning, 5 minutes per paragraph, 2 paragraphs
