Examination Board EDEXCEL HISTORY
History THE SUBJECT IS ASSESSED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS: 3 written examinations at the end of Year 11: Paper 1: Thematic study and historic environment 30% of the qualification - 52 marks. ●M edicine in Britain, c1250–present. ●T he British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches. Paper 2: Period study and British depth study 40% of the qualification - 64 marks. ●E arly Elizabethan England, 1558–88. ● Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91. Paper 3: Modern depth study 30% of the qualification - 52 marks. ●W eimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939.
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