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15 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 20 quick multi-choice questions — every question on the site for this standard, grouped by the 5 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one — that comparison is where the marks come from. Every block links back to the notes that teach it.
Describe what AS91230 requires you to produce.
Explain in depth what makes an explanation coherent rather than merely correct.
Comprehensively examine why narrative is so hard to avoid in this standard, and what would reliably prevent it.
Explain how you would choose an event or place for AS91230.
Explain in depth why a local topic can be as significant as a national one, and how to argue it.
Comprehensively examine what makes a topic explicable rather than merely researchable, and how a student can tell before committing.
Explain how you would structure a coherent explanation for AS91230.
Explain in depth why addressing the rival explanation makes a submission more convincing, not less.
Comprehensively examine what 'comprehensive supporting evidence' means, and why more evidence can make a submission weaker.
Explain what counts as evidence in AS91230 and how much you need.
Explain in depth why replacing vague words with figures raises a grade, and what to do when the figure does not exist.
Comprehensively examine how the evidence available shapes what a submission ends up arguing, and what a student should do about it.
Describe the significance of a historical event or place you have studied, using the standard's measures.
Explain in depth why a local topic's significance has to be argued rather than asserted, and how to argue it.
Comprehensively examine what 'significance to New Zealanders' asks a student to decide, and whose judgement it is.