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Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 - Friday, May 16, 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Edexcel GCSE History Paper 1 (1HI0 10-13) - Friday, May 16, 2025 [Exam Chat]

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Introduce yourself! Let others know what you're aiming for in your exams, what you are struggling with in your revision or anything else.

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Date/Time: Friday, May 16, 2025 AM
Length: 1 hr 15 mins

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Reply 1

04MR17

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This is the paper for:
Option 10: Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present and Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: crime, policing and the inner city.
Option 11: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches.
Option 12: Warfare and British society, c1250–present and London and the Second World War, 1939–45.
Option 13: Migrants in Britain, c800–present and Notting Hill, c1948–c1970.

Post below with which of these you are studying.

(I currently teach Medicine in Britain but have taught Crime and Punishment in the past.) :smile:

Other threads for this course:
Paper 2 - Period study and British depth study - Thursday, June 5, 2025
Paper 3 - Modern depth study - Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Reply 2

04MR17

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Medicine through Time

Section A: Trenches:
1a) Describe one feature of how fighting caused high numbers of injuries (along those lines)
1b) Describe one feature about blood transfusions use on the western front

2a) Source usefulness - Sources - diary from a chaplain and a letter
What was the enquiry about?

2b) Source Follow Up (4)

Section B: Medicine through time
Q3: Explain one way the outbreak of the great plague and the outbreak of Cholera were similar.

Q4 "Explain why Pasteur's Germ Theory (1861) led to changes in medicine."

Q5: "Medicine was mostly based on Four Humours in 1250 - 1700". How far do you agree?
Q6: 16 marker on government role in hospitals 1800-present

Crime and Punishment

Section A: Whitechapel:
1a) Describe one feature of provisions for accommodation of the poor
1b) Describe one feature of the police’s difficulties when catching Jack the Ripper

2a) Source usefulness - Sources -
Enquiry = the lives of people living in Whitechapel

2b) Source Follow Up (4)

Section B: Crime and Punishment
Q3: Explain one way government attitudes towards death penalty 1700-1900 and 1900-present were different.

Q4 "Explain why there was an increase in crime during 1500-1700
- vagabondage
- treason

Q5: “Trial by ordeal was the most important feature of the church’s influence in 1000-1500” How far do you agree?
- trial by hot iron
- benefit of clergy

Q6: How far do you agree?

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Reply 3

Geo Lover 7

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Also happy to answer any questions as a current Year 12. I did Medicine in Britain (same as what @04MR17 teaches). I got an 8 at GCSE (just).

Reply 4

kubach

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I'm doing Medicine in Britain!

Reply 5

Airyn123

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for this paper created a edexcel history periodic table that could be really useful for studying it: https://www.kingsbridgeeducation.co.uk/post/gcse-history-periodic-table goodluck guys!

Reply 6

n1ness

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im hoping the crime and punishment paper is decent im so scared for it.. lowkey hoping on questions on like the forest laws or witchcraft

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avgeek222

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by Geo Lover 7

Also happy to answer any questions as a current Year 12. I did Medicine in Britain (same as what @04MR17 teaches). I got an 8 at GCSE (just).

How do you revise the Western Front part of medicine? The Medicine in Britain part is great but for the western front it's really difficult to remember all the details.

Reply 8

04MR17

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by avgeek222

How do you revise the Western Front part of medicine? The Medicine in Britain part is great but for the western front it's really difficult to remember all the details.

12/16 marks are based around sources, so I'd practice lots of source work. You'd need a handful of facts that you could sprinkle into the source usefulness (8) question as own knowledge and those same facts should hopefully cover you for describing 1 feature. I'd say the Trenches section is more about source skills than it is about knowledge recall

Reply 9

Geo Lover 7

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by 04MR17

12/16 marks are based around sources, so I'd practice lots of source work. You'd need a handful of facts that you could sprinkle into the source usefulness (8) question as own knowledge and those same facts should hopefully cover you for describing 1 feature. I'd say the Trenches section is more about source skills than it is about knowledge recall

To add to this you also need to know about different types of historical sources, strengths and weaknesses of these sources and be able to select sources for specific enquiries.

Reply 10

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by Geo Lover 7

To add to this you also need to know about different types of historical sources, strengths and weaknesses of these sources and be able to select sources for specific enquiries.

Except there's a few quick tricks to hack those questions rather than a larger set of facts to memorise.

Reply 11

tehes4

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Any crime&punishment predictions?

Reply 12

Snailsq

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What has been predicted for medicine I am scared for it to Be mostly industrial

Reply 13

04MR17

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by Snailsq

What has been predicted for medicine I am scared for it to Be mostly industrial

Why?

Reply 14

Airyn123

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Original post

by tehes4

Any crime&punishment predictions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtE70SXMVE prediction for crime and punishment, goodluck!

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Airyn123

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by Snailsq

What has been predicted for medicine I am scared for it to Be mostly industrial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUhKrTKKGg&t=273s medecine predictions, goodluck!

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Geo Lover 7

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by Snailsq

What has been predicted for medicine I am scared for it to Be mostly industrial

Usually they give you some choice. They probably wouldn't have 2 16-markers both on industrial Medicine. If you need help with the content, I can help you.

Reply 17

avgeek222

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by 04MR17

12/16 marks are based around sources, so I'd practice lots of source work. You'd need a handful of facts that you could sprinkle into the source usefulness (8) question as own knowledge and those same facts should hopefully cover you for describing 1 feature. I'd say the Trenches section is more about source skills than it is about knowledge recall

Thanks. My mock (the 2024 paper) was perfect and I got 50/52 but only because I'd remembered really specific facts about CCS even though I didn't know it would come up. Also because there was no question on modern medicine (I'm praying 1500-1700 comes up for the 16 mark). I'll practice sources for the next couple of days then.