Paper 1 source skills (Rights and protest)
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What is Paper 1?
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A source exam: four sources on one case study (US civil rights 1954–1965 or apartheid 1948–1964) and four set questions. It tests source skill, not recall.
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What are the five Paper 1 mark values, in order?
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3, 2, 4, 6, 9 — adding up to 24 marks. Remember the hook '3-2-4-6-9'.
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What does OPVL stand for?
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Origin, Purpose, Value, Limitations — the four-step method for judging a source in the 4-mark value-and-limitations question.
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What does the 3-mark comprehension question need?
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Three separate, distinct points taken straight from the source, with no outside knowledge. Each clear point earns 1 mark.
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What does the 6-mark compare and contrast question need?
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Both similarities AND differences between two sources, explicitly linked source to source — never two separate one-source paragraphs.
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Which is the only Paper 1 question that rewards your own knowledge?
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The 9-mark judgement question ('using the sources and your own knowledge'). Q1–Q3 stay inside the sources.
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Why is a biased source still useful?
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Bias limits it on facts, but makes it valuable evidence of attitudes — what people of the time wanted believed. A government defence of Sharpeville is weak on facts but strong on the regime's mindset.
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Give a value and a limitation of a 1955 boycott-leader's rallying speech.
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Value: a first-hand voice showing the movement's nonviolent method and mood. Limitation: as a rallying speech it exaggerates unity and omits practical struggles like carpools and arrests.
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How do you turn a fact into Q4 evidence for the civil rights case study?
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Pair a source detail (e.g. the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott) with own knowledge it omits — the Supreme Court bus ruling, TV pressure, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Source detail + wider context wins the top band.
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What is the top-band recipe for the 9-mark question?
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Both sides from the sources by letter + facts the sources omit + source reliability judged + an explicit verdict (no fence-sitting).
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Model verdict: was peaceful protest the main reason apartheid resistance grew by 1964?
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Peaceful protest (Defiance Campaign 1952, Freedom Charter 1955) built the movement early, but Sharpeville (1960), the bans, and the turn to Umkhonto we Sizwe (1961) show state repression pushed it towards armed struggle by 1964.
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How long is Paper 1 and how should you time it?
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60 minutes plus 5 minutes' reading. Spend about one minute per mark: roughly 3 / 2 / 4 / 6 / 9, keeping a small buffer.
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