Students are assessed on their readiness to apply key historical skills in making sense of the past through source work and constructing sound and strong claims relevant to historical issues in Singapore.
Section A: Source-based Case Study
This section assesses your readiness to handle, read and analyse different source types (e.g., texts, pictorial etc.) including your understanding of sourcing and close-reading. The two question types assessed in Secondary 1 are:
Inference
Comparison
Section B: Structured Questions
This section assesses your readiness to write a paragraph in response to a question, which is supported by evidence and an explanation.