High Standards NZ

History · Level 2

Examine sources of an historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders

AS91231external

What this standard covers

  • Close reading of written and visual sources supplied in a resource booklet
  • Perspectives, intent and motivation, continuity and change, cause and effect
  • Reliability, bias, usefulness and corroboration between sources
  • Drawing conclusions beyond the obvious and raising a historian's questions
  • Assessed by an end-of-year external examination

Past exam papers

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