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Exam details
Please find below all the resources you need to prepare for your history exam at Dixons Cottingley.
Paper 1:
- Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present; The Elizabethans, 1580-1603
Paper 2:
- History Around Us (Site study: Fountains Abbey, 1132 to present)
Paper 3:
- The making of America, 1789-1900; Living Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945
Exam board website
Past exam materials - 2019
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To revise any aspect of the course and develop your exam technique, you could use the ‘100% Book’ | View |
To learn the right technique for the Migrants to Britain study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video | View |
To learn the right technique for the Elizabethans study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video | View |
To learn the right technique for the History Around Us (Fountains Abbey) study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video | View |
To learn the right technique for the Living under Nazi rule study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video | View |
To revise Migrants to Britain, you could use the slides on this presentation to learn the migrants groups, their time periods and the key information about each group. | View Blank slides |
To revise Migrants to Britain, you could use these analytical timelines to build your understanding of each time period | 1250 - 1500 Early modern Industrial Early 20th 1950 -present |
To revise The Elizabethans, you could use the ‘Big Story’ to make your own mind maps using the advice in the presentation | View View |
To revise for Fountains Abbey, you could watch this reminder of some of the key features | View |
To revise the key events for Making of America, you could use this animated timeline | View |
To revise the key events for the first three parts of Making of America, you could use these narrated timelines | View View View |
To revise Living under Nazi rule, you could use the ‘Big Story’ to make your own mind maps, or annotate a timeline | View View View |
To be clear on the technique needed for Migrants to Britain, you could use this quick ‘what to do’ | View |
Revision websites
Here are some useful websites to help you with your revision.
- BBC Bitesize weblinks
- Migrants to Britain
- The Elizabethans
- Lliving under Nazi rule (remember our course begins in 1933!)
- Our Migration Story
- This website has additional information about migrants to Britain