so you want to master paper one on the ib history exam this video is going to show you exactly what you need to do this is a paper that you've got to go into knowing you are going to knock it out of the park this assessment is a skills test over knowledge now if you know your stuff you're even better off but if we practice the skills throughout the year if you know what you need to do on each question you are going to absolutely blow this paper away time is of the essence it's the hardest part of this test we're going to talk about that in a moment but every single one of my students and i know every single one of you watching this can absolutely knock this paper out of the park and if you do that you are setting yourself up extremely well for papers two and three this test can be a bear it's the timing if you lose track of time if you spend too much time on any one question on this exam you are going to run out of time and leave a lot of points off the table for yourself you've got 60 minutes to handle this test that time is going to go fast so what is paper one it is an assessment based on a prescribed subject that your teacher chose at the beginning of the year for my class we we choose the move to global war talking about the pre-war pre-world war two years each prescribed subject is based on one of two case studies um so for the move to global war we're studying japan and italy and germany in the years before world war ii the paper one assessment is going to choose one of those two case studies to uh to address now don't even think about making any predictions i've year after year i keep thinking they're never going to ask another question about japan and still it seems like more of the questions tend to be about japan than germany and italy i think predicting what the prescribed subject case study is going to be is fruitless know all your stuff um so when you um when you get your paper one exam you're gonna be given all five of the uh of the topics right and you don't wanna waste your reading time looking at anything that you have not prepared for so for my students we're going to skip right to the middle of the exam to the third prescribed subject which is the move to global war so for you definitely know which order the prescribed subjects are and where in the test you're going to find yours so you don't have to waste any time finding it this is a source-based assessment for those of you that have taken ap world history in the past this is your dbq essentially or a series of questions based on these sources for hl kids this is 20 of your overall ib history grade for your sl students uh this is 30 of your grade so what is it we've got a five minute reading period like every other ib exam but on this one you're gonna actually use and need all five minutes of that and then you get 60 minutes to actually write please note in that five minute reading period that is a no pen or pencil allowed at that moment so you just get to read so that's where you're reading through the documents and the questions very carefully you're going to get four sources to read and they're going to be mostly primary sources there could be a secondary source mixed in there as well typically now now the the ib history guide says um they're they could be all written or there could be an image as well the way it always works out is three written sources and then one image uh depending on the topic that you use it could be different things it could be a photograph it could be a political cartoon for the move to global war um it's it's always been a political cartoon so so definitely practice and and be familiar with interpreting uh political cartoons as you as you work through your studies there are going to be four questions the first question is in two parts but there's gonna be four questions only one of those four questions actually requires you to bring some deep knowledge into this uh into this uh into this paper um now of course knowing your stuff is going to make everything a lot easier but you can get by if you open up those questions you're like ah this is a topic i don't feel completely familiar with rely on what the sources are giving you and you'll be fine there are 24 marks on this exam i don't like my students to worry too much about any individual marks but i want us to use those as kind of like a way to keep our pace so think two to three minutes per mark let's run through the questions really quickly question one i'm going to give you around 10 minutes give or take to handle this question it's two parts first part it's going to have you read one of the the written sources and that's a three mark question and it's basically saying do you understand what you're reading can you pull information in order to answer a question um out of the source that you you read you don't need to know anything except how to read and you can knock that first question out of the park it is a three mark question and so i want you to work on pulling out three ideas that will be found within that that source to help answer the question part b is a two mark question so we're going to pull two things out of the source now part b is is typically and i've never seen it not the case but it's going to be having you look at that image or the graph or the map or the chart or for my students it's always been a political cartoon so you're going to have to look at this visual source can you understand what's there what is the artist trying to imply with his creation and you pull two of those ideas out now i do think it's very important as someone who's been a reader for the the ib i think it's very important to not just mention what the source suggests about about a particular subject that you're answering but also to explain how you see it like what is showing you that thing i will tell you that ib rubrics are notoriously thin there's not a whole lot that that readers are given to to grade you on and and we are told as readers that that what the what is on the rubric is not it there's more out there that you guys could write about and so so you if you're if you're thinking a little bit outside the box that can be great you just want to make sure you're explaining how you are seeing it to give yourself that better chance to get the credit so this first question two to three two and three marks five marks total and we're thinking two to three minutes per mark shoot for around ten minutes or so on this first question question number two uh this is uh your source analysis question where you're looking to pay most attention to that source citation where does it come from who wrote it to whom was it being delivered you're going to analyze the values and limitations of any one of those four sources and you're gonna make reference in your work to the origin the purpose and the content of of those sources we'll talk in a later video about how to to look more clearly at those three subjects but make sure you cover all your bases this is a four mark question um and it's a little nebulous with how it works you know don't you don't just have to do four things to get one point each but what i want you to do is make sure you are addressing all three components so in a first paragraph handle origin you know assess that the value and the limitations of the origin in the second paragraph you're going to want to assess the value and the limitations of the purpose and then the third paragraph this is the only one where you're actually looking at what the source is actually saying you're going to address the values and the limitations of the content now don't freak out if you if you start running out of time or if you can't do a value and a limitation for each just make sure you've got all of your bases covered think of a little checklist in your mob in your mind have i handled values have i handled limitations throughout your entire work have i handled origin purpose and content throughout the three paragraphs then you're fine and you should be tackling all four of those marks question number three is a comparison a question you've got to compare and contrast two sources it's a six mark question the ib is going to pick two sources that are quite different they're taking different stands on a particular issue uh so um so you might very well see more differences pop up than similarities doesn't matter though as a six mark question it doesn't work out perfectly you don't necessarily have to have six similarities and differences but do whatever you can do in whatever is evident within that time period you do definitely though want to handle both similarities and differences in two separate paragraphs do not make this the kind of question where in the first paragraph you're explaining the first document and in the second paragraph you're explaining the second document we want to link these things up so in the first paragraph in what ways are these two sources similar in the second paragraph in what ways are these two sources different you can have a difference by omission for example source a talks about something that source b never makes a mention of you can acknowledge a difference by omission the final question uh question four and i want you to leave 25 minutes for this question this is an evaluative question this is a straight up essay although it's kind of a mini essay because you're not going to have too much time to tackle it it's nine marks and this is why it is so essential for you to pay attention to the timing on the previous questions because you don't want to come to question four with only 10 or 15 minutes left because there is so much on the table this is an essay that must be analytical and evaluative not narrative so as as i always tell my own students when you are working through if you're reading through this question you recognize that there is actually a question that you have to take a stand and you have to answer and you have to support your arguments what do you support your arguments with evidence from the sources and evidence from out of your brain this is the one part of the test where you've got to bring some solid information from what you've learned this year into your into your essay now don't freak out if if you if you're not remembering a ton you know there are often going to be big ideas that the documents there's only four sources that the documents are covering um and and so there's going to be a lot left for you to add in there that goes beyond those sources i want you to structure this in a basic essay format you should have an introductory paragraph that that sets the stage for the question that has a thesis that answers the question and that in a perfect world will lay out a brief road map as to your arguments and then each body paragraph and you'll probably have about two on this paper each body paragraph should be addressed in your introductory paragraph and then you work yourself through your two body paragraphs and try to incorporate all of those arguments now it can be a little tricky because one or two of those documents because the documents are made to disagree with each other one or two of those documents are are not gonna maybe support whatever argument you have use them still but refute them or or make an argument that they are not um you know strong enough to overcome whatever your ultimate thesis is that's paper one absolutely know your plan going in know your timing practice this paper throughout the year and and you will be set up on exam day and you will absolutely feel when you walk into this that you are going to walk out after the exam with with a high mark a six or a seven setting you up so well for paper two and three take care see you next time