GCSE History B
Controlled Assessment Exemplar
Teacher Resource Bank / GCSE History B / Controlled Assessment Exemplar / Version 1.0
Contents
Introduction
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Question 1
4
The Sources
5
Candidate 1
8
Candidate 2
10
Candidate 3
12
Examiner’s comments on the answers
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16
Question 2
The Sources
Candidate 1
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Candidate 2
28
Candidate 3
31
Examiner’s comments on the answers
HIJ
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Teacher Resource Bank / GCSE History B / Controlled Assessment Exemplar / Version 1.0
Introduction
The following material is designed to support the first round of teacher
standardisation meetings in 2010. The tasks have been specially written for this
exemplar in order to support centres in their application of the mark scheme. The
mark scheme, which is generic, can of course be applied to any of the published
tasks.
Further advice on the exemplification of the mark scheme and on how to deliver
Controlled Assessment can be found in the Teacher Resource Bank.
HIJ
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Question 1
15 marks
Target:
Analysis of sources to assess utility (AO3, 12 marks) with
supporting knowledge (AO1/2, 3 marks)
Select 5 sources. Explain how useful these sources have been in informing
you in your enquiry into the involvement of women in agriculture in the two
World Wars.
Areas of Study:
The British People in War
The Changing Role and Status of Women in Britain
Bibliography of Sources
A Oral evidence from Mrs Grace Elsey, a member of the Women’s Land Army in
World War 1. Quoted in War Women of Britain, published by the Imperial War
Museum
B Government recruitment poster for the Women’s Land Army in World War 1.
Published by the Imperial War Museum
C Oral evidence...