Student guidance on answering questions for the new AQA spec Paper 1: Understanding the Modern World

This resource is designed for use with the NEW History 8145 AQA specification Paper 1: Section A: Understanding the Modern World. This guidance is appropriate for:

1A America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation
1B Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship
1C Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism
1D America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality (all examples are from this paper)

So what is this? Well for each question I have prepared a 'how to' guide. This includes:

- Student friendly guidance to the marking levels
- Examples of what an answer at each level would look like
- a writing grid to help answer each question
- Student friendly self assessment grid for Assessment for Learning
- Suggestions for how to use these resources in your lessons and incorporate these skills into your SoW

DISCLAIMER: I do not work for AQA and I haven't examined for them. However my experience working as an examiner for Edexcel combined with four years teaching KS4 makes me as confident as its probably possible to be with this new exam spec. This resource is not provided by AQA, but has been compiled following a thorough investigation of all resources online as well as speaking to the advice centre at AQA.