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Summary of multiple targets and comments that examiners have made so that you know exactly what to add into essays and what to miss out so that you don't make simple mistakes, easiest way to get an a* in the subject

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1. Conceptual understanding
2. Breadth of knowledge
3. Knowledge over a span of years
4. Look for keywords in the question and understand their meaning
5. Academic style of writing
6. Don’t use lots of historian quotes as a substitute for analysis
7. Don’t overuse terminology and modern jargon e.g show-casing
8. Don’t compare extracts for Tudor question
9. Provide substantial judgement throughout answer
10. Select views you disagree and agree with and provide appropriate evidence
11. Read whole extract first and then analyse line by line
12. Evaluate key events; Edward was kidnapped by Somerset and held hostage in Windsor
Castle; the questioning of the plans which Henry had made for his son’s succession,
which caused a political crisis and resulted in Seymour’s removal; the removal of Mary
from the succession by Edward’s unconstitutional Devyse, which resulted in a political
crisis and the potential for military action; Mary being threatened by a rebel army at the
gates of London due to fears about the succession and the loss of sovereignty
anticipated by the Spanish marriage; Elizabeth causing a potential crisis by not naming
her successor when she nearly died from smallpox; the crisis in the north when the
Northern Earls tried to ensure that Mary Queen of Scots was included in the succession
by taking up arms
13. Analytical approach
14. Sources Tudors = isolare main point made by each author and sub-sections of their
arguments
15. Direct support and evaluation of the weaknesses of each interpretation
16. Convincing arguments
17. Identify type of historian writing passage and use this as evidence
18. Explain usefulness of all points made
19. Link provenance to value than make general comments on reliability or timing
20. Evaluate over describe

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