GCSE Year 10 & 11
Topics Covered
Students follow the AQA exam board and will sit two exams at the end of Year 11. Both papers are two hours each.
Paper 1: Understanding the modern world
America, 1840–1895: Expansion and consolidation
Conflict and tension, 1894–1918
Paper 2: Shaping the nation
Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
Elizabethan England, c1568–1603.
Assessment Information
Over the two year course students will be assessed regularly during lesson time and at least once a Half Term formally. There is no coursework in GCSE History.