Understanding provenance, particularly the ‘who and why’ something was written, is a key requirement when answering the extract question in AQA A-level politics exams. Extracts appear in all three exam papers, and while it tends to be a key thinker for Paper 3, papers 1 and 2 use extracts from a wide variety of sources and you are expected to know and understand the significance of the most common sources. This is a nerve-wracking challenge for the average 17- or 18-year-old and yet it can be mitigated by careful preparation. Listed here are some of the most common sources you would be expected to know and understand.
By far the most right-wing of the broadsheet newspapers, the Telegraph has been such a strong supporter of the Conservative Party it is often nicknamed the Torygraph. Readership is declining but it sells somewhere in the region of 320,000 copies a day.
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