Key Stage 4: GCSE 9-1

Our students are currently studying the GCSE 9-1 History course with Edexcel

At the end of Year 11 they will sit 3 exams:

• Paper 1:  Crime and Punishment in Britain, c1000- present and Whitechapel, c1870-1900: crime, policing and the inner city. This is worth 30% of the final mark and is  1 hour and 20 minutes.

• Paper 2:  The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189-1216, and Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91. This is worth 40% of the final mark and is 1 hour 50 minutes.

• Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939. This is worth 30% of the final mark and is 1 hour and 30 minutes.