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Conclusions are an often neglected aspect of student responses despite their importance in indicating judgemental ability and their usefulness for students wishing to access the higher mark bands.

Firstly, students should identity whether the source is primary or secondary. Primary sources are those that are directly produced from events such as an eyewitness account. Secondary sources are those...

Including historiography is an important skill for the developing historian and its use should be encouraged. However, using historiography alone does gain any marks. Instead, it should be used alongsi...

Ensuring judgement is sustained through your answer is a key skill. Essentially there are three main parts at which judgement can be inserted into an essay response.

Firstly, students mus...

To solve this problem, we must apply conservation of momentum. Even though there is kinetic energy being added to the probe-capsule system by the explosion, momentum will always be conserved if there a...