How do I do the various kinds of question I will meet in the exam?

You cannot, of course, know the exact questions which will come up, but you CAN have a more-or-less exact idea of the KIND of questions which you are likely to meet.
  

They have followed more-or-less the same form of wording for the last few years.

Your Paper One should go like this:

First you will have to do TWO questions from a choice of three on International Relations (you will have studied a spread of years, e.g. 1900-1949, 1919-1962 etc.)

Each of these questions will have FOUR parts, viz.:

a. An extraction from a source question

b. An accuracy/reliability of a source question

c. A description question

d. A 'which was the most important' either-or question.

Also in Paper One, you will have to do a question on

Britain in World War Two.

This will have FOUR parts too:

a. An extraction from a source question
b. A 'Why was this source produced?' question
c. A usefulness of a source question
d. A 'Do you agree with this interpretation?' question

Your Paper Two should go like this:

The first question is a sourcework question, and the second a more-like-Paper-One question.   You cannot do the same country for both questions - so if my Greenfield pupils do question 1 on Germany, they have to do question 2 on Russia.

   Question 1 has five parts, viz.:

a. An 'explain what you can learn' extraction from a source question

b. A 'how do two sources differ' question

c. A 'why do two sources differ' question

d. A usefulness of a source question

e. An explain question.

Question 2 has four kinds of question, viz.:

a. An extraction from a source question
b. A description question
c. An explain using a source question
d. An explain using your own knowledge question

For teachers - analysis of marking of  actual exam questions.