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

what did everyone talk about for the first question? it was worded so weird😭😭 (medicine edexcel btw) it was to do with injuries on western front (does anyone remember)

Did anybody know what type of source source A was for the crime and punishment paper as it didn’t say so I just put book?

How did everyone find the exam, what topics came up for crime and punishment?

How did everyone find the exam, what topics came up for crime and punishment?

Here's what I wrote about in my Medicine Paper
Section 1- Western Front
One feature of fighting - shells cause shrapnel
one feature of blood transfusions- new tech - blood banks first used in battle of Cambrai
source a - '1000s of soldiers a day' I know this as there were 448000 casualties in the 3rd battle of Ypres, good provenance and no censorship form DORA
source b- 'kettles, hot water bottles and sponges frozen solid' i know this as it was very cold in december 1917 and many soldiers caught frostbite, good provenance but might be censored as it's a letter
inquiry- 'morning tasks', what tasks did you do for the rest of the day?, diary of a nurse on the western front, not censored and will entail daily routine
Section 2- Medicine through Time
comparison - both plague and cholera caused by poor sanitary conditions which were fixed by government (sweeping streets/ john snow and second public health act)
12 marker - germ theory important because 1) koch categorizing germs, 2) new technologies like microscope and petri-dish (advancements continued into 20th century), 3) antiseptic in surgeries
20 marker- (chose Q5) 4 humors important due to church supporting galen's ideas and controlling books but in renaissance due to printing press it improved / black death and plague both had supernatural causes which shows how important supernaturality is even though events are300 years apart / renaisance had many breakthroughs eg william harvey and the four humours was discarded other than in diagnosis as the uneducated could understand it!

Did anyone else do question 6 for the 16 marker? Medicine through time

can I ask what it means by fighting (on describe feature)? cus I just yapped about battle of the somme- I didn't really get what it meant and people Ik have been saying it's about injuries

for describe one feature about fighting i talked about the first use of poisonous gas that caused many casualties as they were very unprepared for gas

Medicine:
Trenches:
Describe feature Q's were about what??
Sources - diary from a chaplain and a letter
What was the enquiry about?
I heard someone mention blood transfusions
12 marker on Germ Theory - got to be happy with that
16 marker on Galen
16 marker on government role in hospitals 1800-present - excellent

lots of people I know did that, I wrote about gun shot wounds

thats great! what did u say for similairty between cholera and the great plauge

can I ask what it means by fighting (on describe feature)? cus I just yapped about battle of the somme- I didn't really get what it meant and people Ik have been saying it's about injuries

ugh I found that one kinda hard! I wrote about how both time they thought it was caused by the supernatural like god, miasma etc - hbu?

Here's what I wrote about in my Medicine Paper
Section 1- Western Front
One feature of fighting - shells cause shrapnel
one feature of blood transfusions- new tech - blood banks first used in battle of Cambrai
source a - '1000s of soldiers a day' I know this as there were 448000 casualties in the 3rd battle of Ypres, good provenance and no censorship form DORA
source b- 'kettles, hot water bottles and sponges frozen solid' i know this as it was very cold in december 1917 and many soldiers caught frostbite, good provenance but might be censored as it's a letter
inquiry- 'morning tasks', what tasks did you do for the rest of the day?, diary of a nurse on the western front, not censored and will entail daily routine
Section 2- Medicine through Time
comparison - both plague and cholera caused by poor sanitary conditions which were fixed by government (sweeping streets/ john snow and second public health act)
12 marker - germ theory important because 1) koch categorizing germs, 2) new technologies like microscope and petri-dish (advancements continued into 20th century), 3) antiseptic in surgeries
20 marker- (chose Q5) 4 humors important due to church supporting galen's ideas and controlling books but in renaissance due to printing press it improved / black death and plague both had supernatural causes which shows how important supernaturality is even though events are300 years apart / renaisance had many breakthroughs eg william harvey and the four humours was discarded other than in diagnosis as the uneducated could understand it!