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

1) Yes
2) Yes, not wrong
3) If the enquiry doesnt reference the cold, then you're fine
4) Depending on what you wrote and how you explained it, you'd be looking at 1-3 marks. If you used the word "cause" that will help.
5) This isn't even worth thinking about

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

does anyone do migration? 😭

Did anyone do migration?? I feel like basically no one does lol 😭 I thought it was a really good paper tbf but I kind of ran out of time for the 8 marker because I did it last

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how did u find it? my teacher said unit 1 wouldn’t come up but lo and behold… 😮*💨

Did anyone do migration?? I feel like basically no one does lol 😭 I thought it was a really good paper tbf but I kind of ran out of time for the 8 marker because I did it last

honestly same got up to the usefulness section on source B and they said stop writing.

Did you start at the front and work through Section A first or had you begun somewhere else and done Section B by this point?

how did u find it? my teacher said unit 1 wouldn’t come up but lo and behold… 😮*💨

did anyone do migration? If so, what were the questions?

yess what were the questions 🙁 esp the 12 marker and 16
the first two for section A were
describe one feature of self help organisations
describe one feature of portobello road??? idk i lowk forgot
the twelve marker was explain the causes for why migrants came to england. and the stimulus points were the great viking army and i forgot the other one 😢
16 marker was “the experiences of migrants from the 1500-1800 were mainly positive HFDYA?” and the stimulus points were hugenots i think maybe. 💀 bruh i litch forgot everything

How important is it in for example the 8 marker for source usefulness when you say 'I know this is true because' or the 12 marker to use specific statistics like saying there were x number of people rather than saying what attitudes were like, how poor people were in whitechapel or for the 12 marker i basically talked about witchcraft in 1 of my paragraphs but forgot to mention what the act was called that criminalised it, and how many people were executed for witchcraft, i talked more about what led to witchcraft being a crime like poor harvests. Am I going to lose a lot of marks as I'm aiming for a 9.

Source usefulness (which comes up again on paper 3) the mark scheme limits you to 2/8 if you don't provide knowledge of your own. How you present that knowledge is up to you, but if you don't add information from your own knowledge you can score 2/8 max.
12 marks - precisely selected knowledge is part of top band answers, so some specific details will be needed for 11-12 marks. You could still reach 9 or 10 marks with good relevant correct knowledge that might not be very precise.

For the source usefulness I basically talked about poverty in Whitechapel and homelessness and I think I mentioned the number of houses compared to the number of people to highlight that there wasn't housing for everyone. For the 12 marker I talked about smuggling, witchcraft and vagabondage, and for vagabondage I mentioned the vagrancy act of 1547 but for witchcraft I don't think I mentioned the laws involved or how many witches were killed, I mainly talked about women in the patriarchal society would be scapegoated if they went against expectations of getting married etc, and mentioned the poor harvests and economic problems of the time.

What were the sources do you know? I have my mock on Thursday