Paper 1 source skills (Conflict and intervention)
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What is Paper 1 and how is it marked?
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What is Paper 1 and how is it marked?
A source exam: four sources on one case study, four set questions worth 3, 2, 4, 6 and 9 marks (24 total), in 60 minutes plus 5 minutes' reading. It tests source skill, not recall.
What are the two case studies in Conflict and intervention?
The Rwandan genocide and intervention (1990–1998), and the Kosovo conflict and NATO intervention (1989–2002).
What does OPVL stand for?
Origin, Purpose, Value, Limitations — the four-step method for the 4-mark value-and-limitations question.
Which Paper 1 question needs your own knowledge?
Only the 9-mark judgement (Q4). Q1–Q3 stay inside the sources and are won with method, not memory.
How do you answer the 3-mark comprehension question?
Make three separate, distinct points that the source actually states — one mark each — with no outside knowledge added.
What wins the 6-mark compare-and-contrast question?
Linked similarities AND differences between the two sources — never two separate one-source paragraphs.
Why is a biased source still valuable?
Bias limits it on facts but makes it strong evidence of attitudes — what people wanted believed, e.g. how NATO or Serbia wanted the bombing remembered.
Give a value of a January 1994 UNAMIR cable warning of hidden weapons (Rwanda).
As a first-hand, dated warning from the force commander before the killing, it proves the UN was warned, so the failure to act was not due to ignorance.
Give a limitation, tied to purpose, of that same UNAMIR cable.
It is an urgent alarm meant to win permission to act, so it may overstate the immediate threat; it also rests on a single informant.
How should a 9-mark answer on NATO's Kosovo bombing be structured?
Short intro, both sides using the sources by letter, own facts woven in (850,000 expelled; 78 days; no UN mandate; Resolution 1244/KFOR), source reliability judged, then an explicit verdict.
Compare how the Rwanda and Kosovo interventions differed.
In Rwanda the world pulled back and failed to stop the genocide; in Kosovo NATO acted forcefully but without UN Security Council authority — so both units test the limits of outside intervention.
What is the Paper 1 mark memory hook, and what is the total?
'3-2-4-6-9' — the five questions run 3, 2, 4, 6 and 9 marks and add up to 24. Spend about one minute per mark.
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