hey...
so i've just done eng and that's all over!! (yay!)
and now the nxt exam i hafta think about is history
i was just wondering, i thinks its been asked before (but ah well)...
how important are direct sources in the 25 markers??
mt.
Hey! Good job!!!! Hope Paper 1 and 2 treated you (and everyone else well) - I heard they were both pretty hard... but now onto the actually important subject
When you say sources, do you mean historians/quotes? If so, not that important at all! Now, will the top students probably be using quotes? Yes - but that is not why they get band 6's, it's just a natural product of the fact that they've probably studied more and thoroughly. You can write a band 6 essay without quotes. Quotes are only important insofar as they count as detail, which is 100% necessary to include - but detail also includes stats, terminology, intricate facts, etc. etc., not just quotes
Quotes a great, but a marker would much rather see your own analysis, than you just parroting a shopping list of historians, so if you do use quotes, make sure that they are backing up YOUR argument, rather than maintaining a point on their own.
Hope this helps!
GET KEEN GUYS (or as keen as you can be for an exam, but you've all worked so hard so you should be keen cos you're gonna smash it!!!)
Susie