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Dixons McMillan

Exam details

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

Paper 1: 

  • Migrants to Britain, c.1250 to present
  • The Norman Conquest 1065 - 1087

Paper 2:

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

Paper 3: 

  • Viking expansion, c.750- c.1050; Living Under Nazi Rule, 1933-1945


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Revision ideas

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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 History Around Us 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 the key information about each group. View here
Blank slides
To revise Migrants to Britain, you could use these analytical timelines to build your understanding of each time period Medieval
Early modern
Industrial
Early 20th
1950 - present
To revise for Fountains Abbey, you could watch this reminder of some of the key features View here
To revise Living under Nazi rule, you could use the ‘Big Story’ to make your own mind maps, or annotate a timeline Big story
Timeline
Timeline 2
To be clear on the technique needed for Migrants to Britain, you could use this quick ‘what to do’ View here

Revision websites

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