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GCSE History 8145
GCSE History Specification Specification for first teaching in 2016
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2.0 Specification at a glance
This qualification is linear. Linear means that students will sit all their exams at the end of the course. GCSE History students must take assessments in both of the following papers in the same series:
Paper 1: Understanding the modern world
Paper 2: Shaping the nation
2.1 Subject content
- one period study
- one thematic study
- one wider world depth study
- one British depth study including the historic environment.
Section A: Period studies
Options to be declared at point of entry.
Choose one of the following options:
- AA America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation
- AB Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship
- AC Russia, 1894–1945: Tsardom and communism
- AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality
Section B: Wider world depth studies
- BA Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894–1918
- BB Conflict and tension: The inter-war years, 1918–1939
- BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945–1972
- BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975
- BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990–2009
Section A: Thematic studies
- AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
- AB Britain: Power and the people: c1170 to the present day
- AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day
Section B: British depth studies including the historic environment
- BA Norman England, c1066–c1100
- BB Medieval England: the reign of Edward I, 1272–1307
- BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603
- BD Restoration England, 1660–1685
2.2 Assessments
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