Mark Schemes and past exam papers are a good way to help revision and aid improvement in your quest for good GCSE grades. I hope you find the following links useful.





AQA Exam Board: AQA do not put past GCSE papers online, they do however post past mark schemes online. You can order the exam papers from AQA, but it might be easier to ask your teacher for past papers. The mark schemes hold the KEY to helping you improve your written exam answers.

AQA: History A: Schools History Project
Past Mark Schemes
AQA: History A: SHP mark schemes 2004, 2005, 2006

AQA: History B: Modern World History
Past Mark Schemes
AQA: History B: Modern World mark schemes 2004, 2005, 2006

AQA: History C: British Social and Economic
Past Mark Schemes
AQA: History C: Social & Economic mark schemes 2004, 2005, 2006


OCR Exam Board: OCR have made past papers and exam mark schemes available online.

OCR GCSE History A: Schools History Project
Past papers
OCR GCSE History A: School History Project Past Paper June 2006

OCR GCSE History A: School History Project
Past Mark Schemes
OCR GCSE History A: SHP Mark Schemes 2006 & 2007

OCR: History B: Modern World History
Past papers
OCR GCSE History B: Modern World past paper 2006

OCR: History B: Modern World History
Past Mark Schemes
OCR GCSE History B: Modern World Mark Schemes 2006 & 2007

OCR: History C: British Social and Economic
Past papers
OCR GCSE History C: Social & Economic past paper 2006

OCR: History C: British Social and Economic
Past mark schemes
OCR GCSE History C: Social and Economic Mark Schemes 2006 & 2007



Edexcel Exam Board: PLEASE NOTE: On entry to the past papers and mark schemes area, you will need to provide your school centre number before you can gain access to the materials

EDEXCEL: GCSE History A Modern World past mark schemes

EDEXCEL: GCSE History B Social & Economic

EDEXCEL: GCSE History C SHP



WJEC Exam Board: PLEASE NOTE Mark schemes and past papers only available from online shop
WJEC History past mark schemes and exam papers

For Key Stages 1-3, students might find the ncaction.org.uk website useful. This site provides examples of work at every national curriculum level and explains why the work fits the criteria.

Student friendly versions of the National Curriculum Levels can be downloaded in word format from these links. Levels 4-6 and Levels 7 and 8. To understand how to progress from one level to the next, this powerpoint presentation may come in handy, as will these learning goals / targets.

GCSE students might find these documents of use. They identify the key features of students work at different levels / grades. Try and work out where you are on the grid, then look at the next stage to work out what you need to do to improve. Two word documents, here and here. You might also find a self evaluation of your work useful. This grid is easy to use for this purpose.

After some guidance on GCSE coursework? This booklet provides general gidance for students following the Modern World course. Much of it is relevant to other courses though. Please note: beyond offering general guidance such as this, we are unable to comment on coursework issues as it can be considered to be cheating by the exam boards. For further guidance you MUST go to your own History teacher.

AS/A2 students might find this document of use when evaluating essays prior to submission. Note: there are lots of kinds of question asked at AS/A2 and you'd need t adapt the grid to fit several types of question, however the basic principles behind the grid apply in most cases.

Note: this thread is closed. If you are a teacher who has additional links / guidance to add to this thread, please contact one of the administrators. Students who have questions relating to any of the markschemes or guidance sheets, please post elsewhere in the forum but do bear in mind that we cannot offer any additional advice about coursework.

Edexcel IGCSE

http://www.edexcel-international.org/quals/igcse/4380/

Cambridge IGCSE

http://www.cie.org.uk/qualifications/acade...t?assdef_id=864