Why has this book been written? It’s simple really. It’s the kind of book that I would want to have in my own classroom to help my own students’ exploration of this major component of the course. As a subject with a short pedigree (the first exam only took place in 2018), this part of the course has proved more problematic for students and teachers than virtually any other section – both in terms of the types of questions that
could be asked, and the level of depth expected in the answers.
Worth 150 out of 400 marks in the written exam, this element of the exam is both the most time-consuming for teachers to prepare materials and the area where the materials prepared become “dated/obsolete” most quickly. Many of the sample DBQs in the first edition (2022) are already defunct – hence the need for this new edition! It is hope that this book will continue to be updated on a “rolling basis” – with new sample questions replacing older material (with older questions available digitally for the ambitious students).
