History

Edexcel History GCSE

What will I study and how will I be assessed?

The GCSE course enables students to study a broad chronological and geographical range of history. You will have the opportunity to investigate history from the medieval period to the present day, as well as study world, European and British history.

You will have three fifty-five minute lessons of GCSE History a week, following the Edexcel specification. There are three exam papers which are sat at the end of Year 11:

Paper 1: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches.

Written examination: 1 hour and 15 minutes

30% of the qualification

Paper 2: Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88 and Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes

40% of the qualification

Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes

30% of the qualification

Year 11

Paper 2: Period study

Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91