Cambridge IGCSE
International 🌍FoundationsCambridge IGCSE — tiered Core and Extended practice for eleven subjects, from Mathematics 0580 to Computer Science 0478.
📏 IGCSE subjects are tiered: Core candidates sit the shorter objective and structured papers for grades C to G, Extended candidates sit the same papers at a harder tier plus the Supplement, for A* to E. Typical weightings are 30-40% for the objective paper, 50-60% for the structured/theory paper and 20% for the practical or alternative-to-practical paper; syllabus codes and windows are printed on the question papers.
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Beginner skill
Chronology and causation, a source's origin, purpose and message, usefulness judged against a question, and the structured answer that quotes and corroborates.
History — Core
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Causation weighed rather than listed, consequence and significance on two clocks, two accounts compared, and the essay that ends with a judgement.
History — Extended
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- Chronology: dating, sequencing and the causes of changeIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- Reading a source: origin, purpose and the message it carriesIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- Judging a source without over-reading itIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- Describing and explaining change over a periodIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- The multiple-choice paper: stem, trap and eliminationIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- Structured answers: point, evidence, explanationIGCSE History — Core: What a Source Is Actually Saying →
- Causation: weight, sequence and the 'most important' questionIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →
- Consequence and significance judged at the time and sinceIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →
- Comparing two accounts of one eventIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →
- Interpretations: how historians disagree and whyIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →
- The essay answer: thesis, argument and judgementIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →
- Evidence: the specific detail that carries the markIGCSE History — Extended: The Judgement at the End of the Argument →