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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 AS91234 requires, and how it differs from AS91233.
Explain in depth why an event with weak New Zealand relevance caps a candidate's grade, using the assessment reports as evidence.
Comprehensively examine the boundary between a historical effect and a personal impact, and why candidates cross it.
Explain how you would choose two effects on New Zealand society for AS91234.
Explain in depth why two effects drawn from the same category tend to score as one, and how to tell before the exam.
Comprehensively examine what an event 'affecting New Zealand society' can mean when the event happened overseas, and how a candidate should establish the connection.
Explain the difference between a short-term and a long-term effect, and how you would evidence each.
Explain in depth why long-term effects are harder to defend than short-term ones, and what a candidate can do about it.
Comprehensively examine what it means to say an effect is 'long-term', and whether the short-term / long-term distinction is a property of the past or of the historian.
Describe how you would structure an AS91234 essay and what you would check before handing it in.
Explain in depth why the contextual paragraph is more dangerous in AS91234 than in AS91233, and how to control it.
Comprehensively examine what 'evaluating the significance of the effects' requires, and why it is the hardest thing the standard asks for.