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Dixons City

Exam details

Please find below all the resources you need to prepare for your history exam at Dixons City.

Paper 1: 

  • Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present
  • The Elizabethans, 1580-1603

Paper 2: 

  • History Around Us (Site study: Fountains Abbey, 1132 to present)

Paper 3: 

  • The making of America, 1789-1900
  • Living Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945

 

Exam board website

Revision ideas

To revise any aspect of the course and develop your exam technique, you could use the ‘100% Book’ View here
To learn the right technique for the Migrants to Britain study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video View here
To learn the right technique for the Elizabethans study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video View here
To learn the right technique for the History Around Us (Fountains Abbey) study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video View here
To learn the right technique for the Living under Nazi rule study and see how exam answers should be written, you could use this video View here
To revise Migrants to Britain, you could use the slides on this presentation to learn the migrants groups, their time periods and other key informationSlides
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To revise Migrants to Britain, you could use these analytical timelines to build your understanding of each time period Medieval
Early modern
Industrial
Early c20th
1950 - present
To revise The Elizabethans, you could use the ‘Big Story’ to make your own mind maps using the advice in the presentation View here
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To revise for Fountains Abbey, you could watch this reminder of some of the key features View here
To revise the key events for Making of America, you could use this animated timeline View here
To revise the key events for the first three parts of Making of America, you could use these narrated timelines  View here
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To revise Living under Nazi rule, you could use the ‘Big Story’ to make your own mind maps, or annotate a timeline View here
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To be clear on the technique needed for Migrants to Britain, you could use this quick ‘what to do’ View here

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Revision websites

Here are some useful websites to help you with your revision.