Examiner Tips for Igcse History
EXAMINERER TIPS for IGCSE History 0470 Good revision is not just learning your history but also how you use it to get the best grade you can. General advice Preparing to get a good grade begins as soon as you start your IGCSE course. You can prepare by: • finding out what you need to know. • organising your notes. Make a list of the topics studied under the headings ‘Core content’ and ‘Depth or Nineteenth/Twentieth Century Studies’. • knowing how your IGCSE papers are structured and practising past questions.
Your notes • Download a copy of the Revision Checklist from the ‘Cambridge Students’ website and read through it. Be really clear what topics you need to know then check that your notes are complete and make sense. If you need further advice, speak to your teacher who will have a full copy of the Syllabus. Ask your teacher if you can have a copy of a summary of the syllabus. Be really clear what topics you need to know, then check that your notes are complete and make sense. Whilst there is a choice of questions on Papers 1, 2 and 4 there are compulsory sections from which you have to choose questions so you can’t afford to have gaps in your notes. Try to produce an accurate set of notes when you do the work in the first place, but if you need to improve your notes you could: o ask a friend if you can copy up work which you have missed from them – but make sure you understand it, o find more information on topics you have studied, using your textbook(s), the library or the Internet. For it to be useful make sure that you fully understand it – if not ask your teacher, o buy a good revision guide - there should be lots available in the bookshops.
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Learning the work There are lots of different ways to revise. Some people make lists; other people use diagrams and pictures. Once you know what topics to cover, you have to work out the best way to learn them. • Make a revision timetable and plan your revision carefully so that you have time to fit in
Your notes • Download a copy of the Revision Checklist from the ‘Cambridge Students’ website and read through it. Be really clear what topics you need to know then check that your notes are complete and make sense. If you need further advice, speak to your teacher who will have a full copy of the Syllabus. Ask your teacher if you can have a copy of a summary of the syllabus. Be really clear what topics you need to know, then check that your notes are complete and make sense. Whilst there is a choice of questions on Papers 1, 2 and 4 there are compulsory sections from which you have to choose questions so you can’t afford to have gaps in your notes. Try to produce an accurate set of notes when you do the work in the first place, but if you need to improve your notes you could: o ask a friend if you can copy up work which you have missed from them – but make sure you understand it, o find more information on topics you have studied, using your textbook(s), the library or the Internet. For it to be useful make sure that you fully understand it – if not ask your teacher, o buy a good revision guide - there should be lots available in the bookshops.
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Learning the work There are lots of different ways to revise. Some people make lists; other people use diagrams and pictures. Once you know what topics to cover, you have to work out the best way to learn them. • Make a revision timetable and plan your revision carefully so that you have time to fit in