GCSE History (9-1) Exemplars Summer 2022 - Paper 1 Thematic study and historic environment

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GCSE History (9–1) exemplars for the Summer 2022 exam series provide model answers and performance insights for Paper 1, focused on thematic study and historic environment. The booklet supports four options (Crime and Punishment, Medicine in Britain, Warfare and British society, and Migrants in Britain) by highlighting three examiner-selected question types per option: Q2(a) source utility, Q2(b) source follow-up, and Q5/Q6 extended writing judgements. ResultsPlus extracts summarise average marks and grade outcomes for each question across routes, with guidance on using Access to Scripts and ResultsPlus for classroom support.

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GCSE (9–1) History Exemplars Summer 2022 Paper 1 Thematic study and historic environment © artwork: Mark Bolitho | Origami photography Pearson Education Ltd/Naki Kouyioumtzis Contents Introduction 3 Access to Scripts 4 ResultsPlus 4 Question 2(a) 6 Question 2(b) 23 Question 5/6 32 Introduction This exemplar booklet has been created using student responses from the summer 2022 examination in GCSE History Paper 1. This booklet is designed to supplement the Examiner Reports published in August 2022, which can be found here. This booklet covers: • Option 10: Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000–present and Whitechapel c1870– 1900: crime, policing and the inner city. • Option 11 : Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches. • Option 12: Warfare and British society, c1250–present and London and the Second World War, 1939–45 • Option 13: Migrants in Britain, c800–present and Notting Hill, c1948–c1970 . There are answers from three questions for each option, which have been chosen as they are often questions that students find challenging: • Q2a source utility • Q2b source follow-up • Q5/Q6 extended writing judgement questions. The sources for Q2(a) and (b) and the indicative content are not in this document, so please refer to the relevant question papers and mark schemes, which can be found here. Access to Scripts Use our free Access to Scripts service to view your students’marked exam scripts. The service is available from results day until mid-December each year, but remember to get your students’permission to use their scripts in advance. This case study with a GCSE History centre suggests how you can use Access to Scripts to understand student performance, gain professional development in your department, give you model answers for use in the classroom, and motivate and encourage students. ResultsPlus data ResultsPlus and Access to Scripts complement one another. ResultsPlus is a useful tool for analysing your students’ performance. More information on its range of features, including a step-by-step guide, is available here. After each full exam series, we provide the global data for every question on every option: average marks overall and also by each grade. The global data is downloaded from ResultsPlus and tidied up. The spreadsheets can be downloaded from the Edexcel website here: look under the‘Guide’ dropdown. You’ll need your Edexcel Online login to access the files – please ask your Exams Officer if you don’t have an Edexcel Online account. Below are extracts from this data, showing how students performed on questions 2(a), 2(b), 5 and 6 on Paper 1 in the summer 2022 exam series. The extracts give the average marks for all students on each question, plus the average marks for students attaining grades 9, 7 and 4 in the overall qualification. Please note that, because of optionality, two routes were available, 1HIA and 1HIB, and the data for these is provided separately in 2022. Paper 1 was available on 1HIA only. On 2(a), the overall average was high Level 2; students attaining grades 9, 7 and 4 were on average awarded mid Level 3, borderline Level 2/3, and mid Level 2 respectively. | Qu.2a | Total | Avge (all) | % | Grade 9 avge | % | Grade 7 avge | % | Grade 4 avge | % | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Crime (1HIA) | 8 | 4.4 | 55.4% | 6.8 | 85.0% | 5.5 | 69.3% | 4.1 | 50.8% | | Medicine (1HIA) | 8 | 4.5 | 56.3% | 6.7 | 83.8% | 5.4 | 68.0% | 4.1 | 51. 5% | | Warfare (1HIA) | 8 | 4.7 | 56.3% | 7.0 | 87.0% | 5.5 | 68.4% | 3.9 | 49.4% | | Migration (1HIA) | 8 | 6.6 | 82.9% | 7.4 | 92.1% | 6.1 | 76.1% | 5.6 | 70.0% | | All four options | 8 | 4.5 | 56.1% | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | On question 2b, the overall average was 2.5 out of 4. | Qu.2b | Total | Avge (all) | % | Grade 9 avge | % | Grade 7 avge | % | Grade 4 avge |

FAQs

What does the booklet cover for GCSE History Paper 1 Summer 2022?

It covers four Paper 1 options: Crime and Punishment, Medicine in Britain, Warfare and British society, and Migrants in Britain. It focuses on source-related Questions 2(a) and 2(b), plus extended writing judgement questions 5 and 6.

Which question types are included for each option?

For each option, it includes answers from three question types: Q2(a) source utility, Q2(b) source follow-up, and Q5/Q6 extended writing judgement questions.

How are ResultsPlus and Access to Scripts used alongside the exemplar answers?

Access to Scripts helps view students’ marked exam scripts to understand performance and support professional development and classroom model answers. ResultsPlus provides downloadable global data for each question, including average marks overall and by grades, used here to analyse Q2(a), Q2(b), Q5 and Q6.

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