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OCR GCSE History
Assessment Objectives
OCR GCSE History Assessment Objectives — Exam Prep
Cambridge OCR History A (Explaining the Modern World), J410 — the board runs two GCSE histories and this edition names which. Three component groups at 50%, 25% and 25%, with every interpretation mark inside Group 1, which is also half the qualification. The thematic study carries no AO3 and no AO4 at all: a quarter of the grade on knowledge and explanation alone.
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The components, and where the weight sitsThree component groups, one of them half the qualification. 200 marks in total, with 10 more for spelling, punctuation and grammar on top.
- AO1Knowledge
- AO2Explanation
- AO3Sources
- AO4Interpretations
A working manual for a GCSE history department teaching Cambridge OCR History A (J410), 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 Cambridge OCR GCSE (9–1) History A (Explaining the Modern World), J410, 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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