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XY | \/ _ \ “J GCSE History Cece \ Revision Booklet “Your guide to the top mark!” N\ Contents page 1) Specification 2) How to revise 3) Examples of good revision 4) Check list of topics 5) Quick fire content questions 6) How to answer the questions 7) Practice questions 8) Model answers ds Qs 1, Specification Your course specification is: AQA GCSE HISTORY (8145). This course is 100% examination. You will sit two papers of 1 hour and 45 minutes each in the summer term, Paper 1 — Germany 1890-1945 and Conflict and Tensions East Vs West 1945-72 © Lhour 45 minutes. 50% of your course. You will be given 4 booklets for this paper. Section A will come as a question and answer booklet (1) and then a separate booklet for interpretations (2) that you will need for questions 1, 2 and 3. Section 8 will come as a question and answer booklet (3) and then a separate booklet for sources (4) that you will you need for questions and 2. MAKE SURE YOU DIVIDE YOUR TIME UP AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ACROSS THE BOOKLETS Paper 2— Health and the people and Norman England 1 hour 45 minutes. 50% of your course. You will be given 4 booklets for this paper. Section A will come as a question and answer booklet (1) and then a separate booklet for interpretations (2) that you will need for questions 1, 2 and 3. Section B will come as a question and answer booklet (3) and then a separate booklet for sources (4) that you will you need for questions and 2. MAKE SURE YOU DIVIDE YOUR TIME UP AND ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS ACROSS THE BOOKLETS More information on the specification can be found on the AQA and the school website. Here is a direct link to AQA: http://www.aca.org.uk/subjects/history/gese/history-8145 The date of Paper 1 is: The date of Paper 2 is: 2, How to revise Helpful hints: Create a revision timetable and stick to it. Be specific ~ say the exact topic you are going to revise, not Just the subject. Eg, Monday History (Early Germany under the Kaiser), Maths (algebra) Do short bursts. Revise for half an hour, then take a 10 minute break, revise for 15 minutes, take a 5 minute break. Don't sit there for hours at a time Make sure you eat and sleep properly. Your brain needs the energy! Take revision seriously, start early (don’t leave it to the week before). Don’t leave gaps in your knowledge. If you are revising a topic and you don’t understand a point you need to use the internet/exercise book to find out the answer or if you are stil struggling go and see your teacher the next day, Don’t leave it and just hope you will remember. Revision techniques: ‘© Spider Diagrams: Put a key question in the middle of the page. Around the outside bullet point main arguments/ points to answer that question. Do it in rounds. Round 1 will be a spider diagram with lots of detail, Then round 2 will have less detail, then the third round will be a simple prompt that you will be able to add on to verbally using your own knowledge. (complete spider diagram on soviet expansion as practise) © Cue cards: Have a key question on one side of the card. On the other side have the answer to that question. You can then get somebody to test you (even if they know nothing about History) or you can test yourself and then check the answers after. ‘© Quick fire questions: Make sure you have a great understanding of the content by answering quick questions about a specific topic. You can either ask the teacher for questions, or write out your own questions using the information in your exercise book and then going back to answer them a few days later. Then go back through your book to check you have included everything you can/add in anything you left out. Or complete the questions in this booklet. © Read over work: Read through your exercise book, read through the green revision guide you have been given, read through any additional sheets you have BUT make sure you are writing down key points as well © Make a list of key words/ names/dates: Go through exercise book and revision guide and pick out all of the keywords on a specific topic. Then a few days later go back and write a summary paragraph about that key word and how it links to topic. Write the answers down and then you can get somebody to test you (even if they don’t know the answers). * Skills practise: Practise the key skills. HOW are sources different, WHY, convincing, Useful, agree with ‘the statement, disagree with the statement etc. Go back over questions in your book and rewrite the answer (without looking], complete the questions in this booklet. Record yourself: Record yourself reading through a key topic and then listen back to it. Post it notes: Stick notes around you room, around the house, on your mirror, in the car ete. Have them everywhere so that you can read them when you have a spare minute (e.g when you are brushing your teeth, getting changed, waiting for your dinner to cook!) Make a timeline of events: Pick and topic and write out the dates and events in order. * Eg Individuals in medicine, Key events in the cold war, Persecution of the minorities during The Holocaust * Use the teachers: Your teachers and experts on the content of the course and how to answer questions. 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