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Causes and consequences · Part 1 of 3
6 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 8 quick multi-choice questions — every question on this part of the standard, grouped by the 2 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one. That comparison is where the learning happens.
Describe the difference between explaining a cause and evaluating it, and describe the three things a prioritisation must contain.
Explain in depth why an analysis that links two consequences to an event perfectly can still contain no evaluation at all.
Comprehensively analyse what it means to understand the complexity of an event's causes and consequences, and explain why a confident, decisive argument can miss it.
Describe what makes an event suitable for analysing its causes and consequences, and describe how significance is measured.
Explain in depth why the consequences of a disaster are harder to weigh against each other than those of a legislative or political event.
Comprehensively analyse the tension between choosing an event narrow enough to analyse and one large enough to be significant, and explain how a historian should resolve it.