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

Guys idk what's going on with edexcel but I do Crime and Punishment and Whitechapel and the paper was SOOOOOO GOOOD 🙏🙏🙏🙏

What was the exact wording of the 4 humours question - 16 markers

You had 2 "describe one feature" question instead of 1 "describe two features" questions?

Yep that's a change for this year onwards - and a good one I think. There are some other minor changes that came in this year too.

Oh OK.
What are these minor changes?

I think I done quite well in most of the questions but I did not finished the 16 marker. For medicine but I am scared that I will keep not finishing the papers also for the four marker for medicine would things you could have said I wrote about government taking action .

There are more choices between questions on paper 2, rather than being made to pick only 1 of the longer questions there are two.
There's also 2x Explain 1 consequence, rather than explain 2 consequences.

I'm jealous of these changes including more choice between questions,smaller tariff questions and more time.

Bro there was so much to write about

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 - excellent

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

crime and punishment was amazing literally all of the questions were so broad

frrr like i liked how it was majority on medieval and early modern. tthe 12 marker was amazing

Crime and punishment was so light. Thx edexcel

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?

Crime and Punishment
1) One feature of provisions of accommodation for the poor
one feature of the police’s difficulties when catching Jack the Ripper

2) how useful are sources a and b for an enquiry into the lives of people living in Whitechapel

follow up

3) one difference between government attitudes towards death penalty 1700-1900 and 1900-present

4) explain why there wasincrease in crime during 1500-1700
- vagabondage
- treason

5) “trial by ordeal was the most important feature of the church’s influence in 1000-1500”
- trial by hot iron
- benefit of clergy

6) forgot

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

teh exam went rlly well lol. do u do also c+p?

Guys idk what's going on with edexcel but I do Crime and Punishment and Whitechapel and the paper was SOOOOOO GOOOD 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I’ve got a few questions; someone helppp!!
1) for the features question, i wrote just about shrapnel from flying artillery and explained it. is that fine? (i did do the transfusion question though)
2) for the source question, i wrote that both sources were from the time and thus unlikely to be distorted by memory (the second source was from 1917 - a year after the battle if the somme, is that still fine? 🥀)
3) again for the source question about source b i only focused on the short sentence at the top, stating the medical treatment the nurse did, not referring to the cold at all. is that still fine? - i did link it back to the enquiry and why jt might be useful.
4) lastly for the explain one difference question, i ran out of time so i wrote wrote how it was the “air” - i didn’t specify miasma or even ‘bad air’ i was short on time and had to close my booklet. would i at least get a mark?
5) is a grade 9 still possible for me to get? i am predicted one but the paper really took many marks off i believe maybe around 10 if im being harsh. the grade boundaries for edexcel history are really harsh as well (i do med, cold war, richard + john and mao) i think they’re around 144/168. cold war is quite a weak topic for me as well.
thanks for readingg!! please help x

Anyone know what the 12 marker on warfare was? Interested in the wording of the question.