[LuGreen17]

Could anybody help me with how to answer the second part of a history exam? I have my AS History exam tomorrow afternoon, a source based exam, and would like advice on how to answer the provinence part of the questions.

I don't know what i should be writing about or what i need to look for in the sources to see if they are reliable or not?

Any help would be massively helpful!!

Thanks

[Hobo389]

Look at the date, the author, it's slant and judge it's reliability as a source to the question that you're asked. But seriously, I wouldn't suggest judging provenance in an AS exam, it's very GCSE.

[LuGreen17]

Ok thanks. My teacher's keep telling me to write about it but I never know what to put!

Thank you!

[tsveta]

im resitting this exam for the 3rd time tomorrow, lol. make sure you are to the point, and include words such as:
utility
consistency
reliability
situation
purpose
tone
etc

make sure you make judgements throughout, e.g. "this source is a better piece of evidence than this source because...."

hope thats helpful

[LuGreen17]

Yeah that's really helpful thank you!! At least i can now base some of my answer around those words!

Thanks again! :-)