Many thanks must go to Gareth Holt for the content of this Booklet.

Gareth Holt is the Head of the History Department at ‘ Blaengwawr Comprehensive School’. He is an experienced WJEC examiner, at both GCSE and A’Level.

He has, as part of the ESIS in service training programme, offered his views to both teachers and pupils, on how best to achieve quality of response at GCSE and A’Level.

He has also worked for ACCAC, as an independent monitor of GCSE and A/S A textbooks. More recently, he has been invited by the Centre of Educational Studies, Aberystwyth, to edit a series of KS3 booklets on ‘ Wales in the Modern World’, and he has just completed work for QCA as part of their accreditation panel for GCSE.

Many thanks must also go to Phil Starr, Subject officer at the WJEC for permission to use WJEC material, which is reproduced here.

The views expressed are made in a personal capacity and do not necessarily imply the approval of the Welsh Joint Education Committee.

FOREWORD

This guide forms part of a wider programme of history support for teachers and students provided by the County Boroughs’ Advisory Service ESIS.

It aims to raise awareness of the new assessment regimes and of the standards expected at the new AS level, to be examined in 2001/2 . Furthermore, it is an attempt to help students in the transition from GCSE to AS level by providing them with a suggested “step by step guide” to answering the range of questions assessed in History Units 1,2,and 3.