The OCR history coursework or investigation is worth 40% of your A2 mark and consists of two tasks, the interpretation and the investigation. Each piece of work must be no more than 2,000 words in length and the focus must be on the critical evaluation of the passages and sources being used. This is the only part of your A2 examination that requires the use of sources. If they are not thoroughly evaluated you will not score high marks. In both elements, however, once you start to critically evaluate you will reach Level 3 for Assessment Objective 2, which carries the greatest number of marks.
Although there are marks for knowledge, remember that these marks are for using knowledge to answer the question and not simply writing all you know about the topic, or an aspect of the topic. There is no limit to the amount of time you have to research the topics you are studying, so your teacher and the coursework moderator will expect the knowledge you use to evaluate the passages or sources to be not only relevant but specific, and to go beyond what a GCSE or AS student would know about the topic.
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