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What are the three Paper 1 questions, and how many marks is each worth?
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What are the three Paper 1 questions, and how many marks is each worth?
Q1 content [6] — explain how the content of Source A and Source B answers the inquiry question. Q2 context [6] — analyse how Source C's context shapes its use. Q3 perspectives [12] — examine how perspectives across ALL sources answer the inquiry question.
What is the difference between a source's Content and its Context?
Content is what the source actually says or shows. Context is who made it, when, where, and why (its provenance and purpose).
In Q1, why does 'Source A says the camp had 5,000 refugees' score low marks?
It only describes the content. To score high you must explain HOW that detail helps answer the inquiry question — the connection, not just the fact.
What four things should you check about a source's context for Q2?
Origin (who made it), Purpose (why it was made), Time (when), Place (where) — often remembered as OPTP / provenance.
Give a worked example: how does the context of a 1946 Red Cross field report shape its use for displacement in Europe?
As an official relief-agency report written close to events, it is useful for reliable factual detail on camp conditions, but its purpose (justifying continued Red Cross funding) may shape it to emphasise need.
How does the context of a 1979 US State Department memo on Vietnamese boat people shape its use?
Written by a government agency during the Cold War, it is useful for showing official US policy reasoning, but its purpose (justifying refugee admission numbers) may present US involvement favourably.
What must Q3 always compare, and what mark band do you hit if you only discuss one source's perspective?
Q3 must examine perspectives across ALL the sources (similarities AND differences). Discussing only one source caps you in the 1-6 band; discussing only two of three caps you at 9/12.
Give one example of perspectives agreeing across sources on displacement.
A DP-camp survivor testimony and a UNRRA report can both describe overcrowding and shortage of food — corroborating each other despite very different authors.
Give one example of perspectives differing across sources on displacement.
A US government memo on the Orderly Departure Program (1979) may frame resettlement as an orderly success, while a Vietnamese refugee's diary describes the same process as slow and frightening — same event, different perspective.
What is {{corroborate|when two sources support and agree with each other}} used for in Q3?
Showing that two independent sources agree strengthens the reliability of a claim about the inquiry question — a key move examiners reward in Q3.
Why is 'the sources are useful because they are primary sources' a weak Q1/Q2 answer?
It is a generic claim with no specific link to the content or context of THIS source and THIS inquiry question — examiners want a developed, source-specific explanation.
What is the safest structure for a Q3 [12] answer?
State the inquiry question link, then go source by source (or perspective by perspective): what each source's origin/purpose suggests about its view, then explicitly compare — where they agree, where they diverge, and why that matters for the inquiry question.
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