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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 AS91232 requires, and what counts as a perspective.
Explain in depth why reasons and actions are the most important parts of a perspective, using an example.
Comprehensively examine what it means to explain a perspective 'in historically accurate ways', and where the difficulty lies.
Explain how you would find and select perspectives for AS91232.
Explain in depth why the argument someone did NOT make is often the most revealing thing in a source.
Comprehensively examine whose perspectives survive to be interpreted, and what a student should do about the ones that do not.
Explain what it means to interpret a perspective in historically accurate ways.
Explain in depth why hindsight is so hard to remove, and what specifically to replace it with.
Comprehensively examine whether it is possible to explain a past perspective on its own terms, and what a student should do given the answer.
Explain how you would compare two perspectives, and what discernment means.
Explain in depth why explaining two perspectives well is not the same as comparing them, and what the comparison must contain.
Comprehensively examine what it means to say two perspectives disagreed, and whether the disagreement is always where it appears to be.
Describe how you would structure and write an AS91232 submission.
Explain in depth why marking the difference between evidence and inference matters so much in this standard.
Comprehensively examine the tension between explaining a perspective sympathetically and judging it, and how a submission should resolve it.