Toolkits
Deep dives on the ideas that show up everywhere. Each one starts with why the idea exists at all — the problem it was invented to solve, what it actually does, and where it turns up outside a classroom — and then goes through it properly: the full explanation, the table you actually need, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost marks.
Every related issue
The ideological spectrum
The six questions every ideology answers, the positions themselves, why left-right is not one line, and how to place a source you have never seen.
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Both parts of the exam
Reading a source
Five questions that work on any source, then the specifics for written sources, cartoons and images, and data — and how to write the interpretation.
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Position paper
The evidence bank
What counts as evidence, ten examples worth knowing properly, how one example can argue either side, and how to use evidence inside a paragraph.
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How to use these
- Wondering why any of this is a thing? Read the opening section. It is the part a textbook usually skips.
- Stuck on a question type? Open the toolkit for that idea and find the worked example closest to it.
- Revising? Read the tables and try the checks, then go to practice questions to see whether it stuck.
- Writing the diploma? The toolkits cover what the formula sheet and data pages do not give you — see diploma prep.