GCSE History Topics

Can i get to know what all topics/lessons get covered in GCSE History
i have just moved to UK and not sure of how to find the topics to prepare in advance

i have got edexcel revision books subscribed by school

thanks

Reply 1

Know Your Enemy

The topics are different for each exam board. I'm assuming yours is Edexcel so I can't comment as I had WJEC for GCSE. Even if you find someone here who's doing the same exam board, they might not necessarily study the same topics as schools have a range of topics they can choose for each module (can't speak for all exam boards - this is true for WJEC).

I admire the fact you want to prepare early but your best bet is asking school.

Reply 2

999tigger

Original post by sidp

Ask your teacher what options were chosen.

The specification is here from p5 onwards

https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/History/2016/specification-and-sample-assessments/9781446925867_GCSE2016_L12_History_Web.pdf

Paper 1

Paper 1: Thematic study and historic environment (Paper codes: 1HI0/10–12) Written examination: 1 hour and 15 minutes30%* of the qualification 52 marks (16 for the historic environment, 36 for the thematic study)Content overview Students take one of the following options:●10:Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–presentandWhitechapel, c1870–c1900: crime, policing and the inner city. ●11:Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches. ●12:Warfare and British society, c1250–present and London and the Second World War, 1939–45.

Paper 2

Paper 2: Period study and British depth study (Paper codes: 1HI0/20–29)Written examination: 1 hour and 45 minutes40%* of the qualification64 marks(32 for the period study and 32 for the British depth study)Content overview Students take one of the following British depth study options:●B1:Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88●B2:The reigns of King Richard I and King John, 1189–1216●B3 :h:

enry VIII and his ministers, 1509–40●B4 :colone:

arly Elizabethan England, 1558–88.Students also take one of the following period study options:●20/21: Spain and the ‘New World’, c1490–c1555●22/23:British America, 1713–83: empire and revolution●24/25:The American West, c1835–c1895 ●26/27: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91 ●28/29: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945–95.

Paper 3

Paper 3: Modern depth study(Paper codes: 1HI0/30–33)Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes30%* of the qualification52 marksContent overview Students take one of the following modern depth studies:●30:Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41●31:Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39●32:Mao’s China, 1945–76●33:The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad.