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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 the AS91436 examination requires you to do, and what you are assessed on.
Explain in depth why AS91436 is the Level 3 History external a student can prepare for most reliably, and what that preparation should consist of.
Comprehensively analyse why the 2025 report warns against mnemonics such as PLONK, when mnemonics are widely taught for source analysis.
List the historical concepts AS91436 names and describe what each asks you to look for.
Explain in depth why candidates find continuity and change harder than the other concepts, when it appears more often than any other.
Comprehensively analyse the relationship between reliability and usefulness, and why the standard's own framing makes an unreliable source potentially the most valuable in the booklet.
Describe how you would approach the different kinds of source that appear in the AS91436 resource booklet.
Explain in depth why candidates handle visual sources worse than written ones, when visual sources are usually simpler.
Comprehensively analyse why a source's caption, framing or publication is often better evidence than its content, and what that implies about how the booklet should be read.
Describe what a generalisation is in AS91436, and how you would structure an answer to produce two of them.
Explain in depth why an entirely accurate source-by-source answer cannot reach Merit, and why candidates keep writing them.
Comprehensively analyse why a requirement central to the marking schedule appears nowhere in the achievement standard, and what a candidate should conclude from that.
Using the invented Northmere sources, answer Practice Question One: what led the council to allocate the baths as it did in March 1923?
Using the invented Northmere sources, answer Practice Question Three in depth: how useful would Sources G and K be to a historian studying attitudes to women's use of public facilities in the 1920s?
Using the invented Northmere sources, comprehensively analyse what the dispute as a whole reveals about attitudes in the borough — going beyond what any single source states.