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Pearson Edexcel GCSE History
Assessment Objectives
Pearson Edexcel GCSE History assessment objectives explained
Pearson Edexcel 1HI0. Three papers of three different lengths and weights — 30%, 40% and 30% — and every mark for interpretations is on Paper 3, with none anywhere else. Paper 2 is the mirror image: 40% of the qualification with no AO3 and no AO4 at all. Two papers, two completely different demands, and a department teaching them the same way is preparing for neither.
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The papers, and where the weight sitsThree papers of three different lengths and three different weights — 30%, 40% and 30% — and each one assesses a different set of objectives.
- AO1Knowledge
- AO2Explanation
- AO3Sources
- AO4Interpretations
A working manual for a GCSE history department teaching Pearson Edexcel 1HI0, written to the specification and checked against it before release.
Ofqual sets the four objectives and the 35/35/15/15 split, so those are identical on every board. Where the marks sit is not, and in history the difference is larger than in any other subject in this range. Part One opens on that table rather than on content, and the placement is drawn as well as tabled — on a page where you can see at a glance which paper carries no source or interpretation marks at all.
Page two routes by reader: a classroom teacher, someone new to the department, a head of department and a line manager each get a named place to start. Everything after Part One is subject pedagogy that would be true whichever board you sat.
Every claim about this board resolves against this board's own specification before the book is built — including the command words, which are this specification's own. Only *Describe*, *Explain* and *Significance* appear in all three, which is why a resource written for another board can look right and ask for the wrong thing.
- Written to Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History (1HI0) specification, with the assessment objective weighting table reconciled against it
- Intended for teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide
- Extent 31 pages · 24 sections
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