First World War origins — Normal

Checked Paper 3 topics and Paper 4 European/American date ranges. The mini-tests sample these topics; they do not certify full teaching coverage.

A single unseen historian extract and extended interpretation response guide the skill progression. No extract or question is reproduced.

Informs attention to the whole interpretation, approach and relevant contextual knowledge. Local criteria are formative, not Cambridge marks.

Checks the July crisis chronology and alliance context.

Checks mobilisation and the relationship between German planning and war against France.

Actual prior-series scheme checked for the need to explain a whole qualified interpretation, rather than only a broad historiographical label.

Informs focus on the precise question, chronology, balanced arguments and explicit criteria for judgement. This is a pattern review, not a prediction of future questions.