[NJB]

Hi, i have my second OCR paper on Britain. It is about the liberal reforms, suffragism etc.

I understand that there will be different types of source questions - for example:

"how far does this source justify..."

or

"How reliable is this source"

Is there any possiblility that i could get some information on how to answer these types of questions?
I've been told to extract, comment and evaluate, and to use Nature, Oigin and Point, but i dont know when to use them.

Any help would be great!
Cheers.
N

[MrJohnDClare]

NOT THE SAME BOARD - so watch out!!!

But some general advice on how to answer different kinds of question at
AQA Paper Two questions
AQA Paper One questions

if you read these, a lot of what it says apply sourcework questions in general.

[Mrs Faithorn]

I think it's more likely to be on the Votes for Women or Britain in WW1 topics than Liberal Reforms this year since Lib Refs were last year.

As to your questions then this thread from another OCR candidate recently will be useful I think.
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforu...t=0&#entry12053

Quote

"how far does this source justify..."

or

"How reliable is this source"

Is there any possiblility that i could get some information on how to answer these types of questions?
I've been told to extract, comment and evaluate, and to use Nature, Oigin and Point, but i dont know when to use them.

When your teacher has told you to think about the Nature, Origin and Purpose of a source what they have meant is that in order to answer the question you are actually being asked these things are what you should consider before you start writing. They are things you ALWAYS need to think about - but not anything that gains any credit all by themselves.

For example ....When you know a source's orgin (where it comes from) then you can use that to help you make sensible observations about whether you consider a source to be very reliable/not at all reliable. Do you get the idea? In the same way figuring out the purpose of a source (eg from the language it uses) will also help you to comment sensibly on a source's reliability.

To answer a question "How far does this justify .....?"

Make sure that you do directly tackle the "how far" aspect of the question. Actually state "This goes a long way to justify xxxxx" OR "What this source says about xxxxx only partly justifies (what ever you were asked). Then of course you need to explain your reasoning - which will almost certainly be based on your wider knowledge of what the source refers to as well as having thought sensibly about who was writing the source and why they were doing it.

When asked "How reliable is this source" ... again you must deal directly with the question and actually state "This source is not very reliable (or whatever you consider) because ......... " (and then explain why you have reached that judgement about it). When you need to make a decision about reliability you will be thinking about the source's Nature, Origin and Purpose to help you make up your mind so you should use what you think about those things to help your to explain.

I do hope that helps?

[NJB]

Yeah thats great thanks. cheers for the help!