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IGCSE History
The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:
• develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide diversity of human experience
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• engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers
• develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context
• develop an awareness that different people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them
• organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.
Course Content
Paper 1: Depth Studies Paper: Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45 and A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
1 hour 30 minutes
50% of the qualification
Paper 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies: The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18 and Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948
1 hour 30 minutes
50% of the qualification
Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes 30%* of the qualification
Students take one of the following options:
1.Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41
2.Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
3.Mao’s China, 1945–76
Entry Requirements
An interest and aptitude for the subject should be displayed at Key Stage 3.