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OCR GCSE History topic questions

Practice questions per spec point, written in board paper style with mark-scheme answers.

  1. AO2Explain and analyse historical events and periods using second-order concepts (cause, consequence, change, continuity, similarity, difference, significance)4 questions →
  2. AO3Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements in their historical context5 questions →
  3. AO4Analyse, evaluate and make substantiated judgements about interpretations (academic and popular) of the past5 questions →
  4. P1.CP.1Crimes, courts and punishments in medieval England, including trial by ordeal and the bloody code roots6 questions →
  5. P1.CP.2Early modern: vagrancy, witch trials, the bloody code and transportation to America/Australia6 questions →
  6. P1.CP.3Industrial reform: Robert Peel, the Metropolitan Police, prison reform (Pentonville) and abolition of the bloody code6 questions →
  7. P1.CP.4Modern crime, policing and punishment: abolition of the death penalty (1965), modern police service, cyber-crime5 questions →
  8. P1.PH.1Public health in medieval towns and the impact of the Black Death (c.1250–c.1500)5 questions →
  9. P1.PH.2Living conditions, plague responses and quack medicine in early modern Britain (c.1500–c.1750)6 questions →
  10. P1.PH.3Industrial Britain: cholera, miasma theory, Edwin Chadwick and the 1848/1875 Public Health Acts5 questions →
  11. P1.PH.4The 20th century: NHS foundation 1948, mass vaccination, antibiotics, lifestyle campaigns and inequalities6 questions →
  12. P2.D.1The Mughal Empire 1526–1707: founders, Akbar’s religious tolerance, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and decline5 questions →
  13. P2.D.2The Spanish Conquistadors 1519–1551: Aztec and Inca empires, Cortés, Pizarro, motives, methods and consequences5 questions →
  14. P2.D.3The First Crusade c.1070–1100: causes, the People’s Crusade, the Princes’ Crusade, Jerusalem 10995 questions →
  15. P2.D.4Living under Nazi rule 1933–1945: terror state, propaganda, opposition, the Holocaust5 questions →
  16. P2.PS.1The Making of America 1789–1900: westward expansion, slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, Plains Indians5 questions →
  17. P2.PS.2Viking Expansion c.750–c.1050: raids and settlement, kingdoms in Britain and Scandinavia, conversion to Christianity5 questions →
  18. P2.PS.4Personal Rule to Restoration 1629–1660: Charles I, Civil War, Cromwell’s rule, Restoration5 questions →
  19. P3.D.1The Norman Conquest 1065–1087: succession crisis, 1066, feudalism, Domesday Book, castles, resistance and revolts5 questions →
  20. P3.D.2The Elizabethans 1580–1603: religious settlement, plots, Spanish Armada, voyages of discovery and society5 questions →
  21. P3.D.3Britain in Peace and War 1900–1918: Liberal reforms, women’s suffrage, WWI causes, home front and consequences5 questions →