A Level History Distance Learning CourseAL612

Course Info

Distance Learning Support

At Start Learning we pride ourselves on our friendly andsupportive tutors. Your tutor support will start as soon as you receive yourcourse and will be valid for 12 months. All our tutors are highly qualifiedwith extensive experience in supporting distance learning students.You contact your tutor via email and they are responsible for markingassignments answering your questions and guiding you through the course.

Home Study Entry Requirements

Basic English reading and writing skills are required. We recommend you have general skills and knowledge associated with a GCSE course or equivalent.

At Start Learning we believe that everyone should have theopportunity to expand their knowledge and study further, so we try to keep ourentry requirements to a minimum.       

Recommended Hours of Study

It is recommended that 200 hours of your time should be allocated towards study for the AS and A2 examinations.

Distance Learning Course Contents

A Level History consists of AS Level and A2 Level

AS Level

Unit 1 – HIS1A – HIS1N, Change and Consolidation
• The Reign of James I: the Establishment of the Authority, 1603-1618
• The Stuart Monarchy, 1618-1629
• The Personal Rule of Charles I, 1629-1640
• Charles and the Origins of the Civil War, 1640-1642
• The USSR and Marxism
• Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1930s
• Fascist Ideology and Italian Fascism
• The Italian Fascist state of the 1930s
• Nazi Germany

Unit 2 – HIS2A – HIS2S, Historical Issues: Periods of Change

• The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976
• The Civil war, 1946-1949
• The Consolidation of Power, 1949-1953
• Economic planning and its results, 1953-1967
• The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960
• The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath 1966-76 
• The effects of the Cultural Revolution
• The political framework, 1959-1964
• Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64
• Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64
• Growth of Mass Media
• Increase of Leisure Time
• Changes in Culture and Society
• Youth Rebellion and Radicalism
• Social changes
• The Government and modernisation of society, 1964-1975
• Greater equality for woman – early 1970s
• Education
• The beginnings of Multiculturalism

A2 Level

Unit 3 – HIS3A – HIS3N, The State and the People: Change and Continuity
• Louis XV: The ‘Well Beloved’, 1743-1764
• Louis XV, 1764-1774: The Return of Absolutism?
• Louis XVI: Pressure on absolutism – 1774-1787
• The collapse of the ancient Regime 1787-1789
• Victory and Crises: 1918-1931
• The National Government and inter-war changes, 1931 – 1939
• The impact of war and post-war reconstruction, 1939-1951
• Post War Economic Problems
• General Election of October 1951
• Conservatives and the Economy 1951-64

Unit 4 – HIS4X, Historical Enquiry

Qualification

AS Level + A2 Level = A Level in History

Distance Learning Easy Payment Plan

Full Price is £395

6 Monthly Instalments of £65.83

The first instalment is paid at time of enrolment with a fee for postage and packaging.

For postage costs click here: Postage & Packaging

Call us on 0800 074 1222 if you would like to set up a payment plan

Learning Objectives

Unit 1 - Change and Consolidation

Overview:

This unit promotes the understanding of change over time, of at least 50 years. Focuses on how governments establish themselves and respond to the need for change. The student will develop a strong sense of historical perspective and understand the relationships between key feature and characteristics of the period of study.

Britain, 1603-1642

An overview is provided of the changing relationships between Crown, Parliament and people in Britain during the reigns of James I and Charles I.

Part 1

The Reign of James I: the Establishment of the Authority, 1603-1618

The position of the monarchy, the ideas of James I and the union of the two crowns

King James I England and VI Scotland – The man

The divine right of kings and the royal prerogative

The position of the Church under James I, including his response to challenges from Roman 

Catholics and Puritans

The Elizabethan settlement of 1559

James and his relationship with the various religious communities

James I’s relationship with Parliament, including conflicts over finance

The form of Apology of the House of Commons

The Committee of the whole house – 1607

The influence of Court favourites

Part 2 

The Stuart Monarchy, 1618-1629

The foreign policies of James I and Charles I

The career and influence of Buckingham

Religious issues and rise of Arminianism

Parliament 1618–21 

Relations between Crown and Parliament

Part 3

The Personal Rule of Charles I, 1629-1640

The ideas of Charles I on monarchy and the concept of Divine Right

Charles I’s rule without parliament

The role and influence of Wentworth

Religious issues including Laud’s reforms, and the influence of Catholicism at Court 

1629-40 – Personal Rule and financial issues

Archbishop Laud

The role and influence of Wentworth – earl of Stafford

Part 4

Charles and the Origins of the Civil War, 1640-1642

The reasons why Charles I recalled Parliament, including his difficulties with Scotland and Ireland

Opposition and faction within the Parliament, including the role and influence of John Pym

The actions of Charles I in the political crisis of 1640-1642

Reasons for the outbreak of war

The nineteen propositions

Totalitarian Ideology in Theory and in Practice, c1848-c1941

An overview of the development of totalitarian ideologies as they developed from the mid-nineteenth century.  An opportunity to investigate three totalitarian regimes and the extent to which ideology shaped them.

Part 1

The USSR and Marxism

Marxist stage theory, including the dictatorship of the proletariat and how it was adapted by Lenin and Stalin

Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks

The intolerance of diversity in the 1930’s, with reference to economic, political, religious and cultural diversity, including and purges

Three stages of Stalin’s rise to power

Part 2

Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1930s

State measures used to achieve economic progress

Why did Stalin carry out the purges?

The cult of Stalin

Part 3

Fascist Ideology and Italian Fascism

History of Fascism

Features of Fascist Ideology

Different Strands within Fascism

How Mussolini adapted Fascism

Part 4

The Italian Fascist state of the 1930s

Suppression of political diversity

Woman in Fascist Italy

Racism against Germans and Slavs

The intolerance of diversity with reference to political, economic, religious and cultural diversity

Part 5

Nazi Germany

Nazi ideology, with reference to nationalism, socialism, race and anti-semitism and Volksgemeinschaft

The rise to power of Adolf Hitler

Development of Nazi Ideology

Hitler’s rise to power 1928-33

Political background to Hitler’s chancellorship

Establishment of Hitler’s Dictatorship – January 1933-August 1934

Part 6

The Nazi State in the 1930s

Nazi Germany’s intolerance of diversity

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 1938

Propaganda and the Nazi leadership

The Fuhrerprinzip (Principle of the Fuhrer)

The Totalitarianism of the three regimes

Unit 2 - Historical Issues: Periods of Change

Overview:

Unit 2 promotes the study of significant periods of history in depth.  An understanding of the complexity of historical process is established.  

The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976

An opportunity to analyse the extent to which Mao Zalong transformed China in the years between the start of the Civil War in 1946 and his death in 1976.

Part 1

The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976

The strengths and weaknesses of the Guomindang at the start of the civil war, including the role and influence of Chiang Kai Shek

Communist retreat

The long march

Part 2

The Civil war, 1946-1949

Political and military strength of the CCP in 1946

Ideological differences between Nationalist and Communists

The people republic of china is born

Reasons for the ultimate Communist victory

Part 3

The Consolidation of Power, 1949-1953

The ideology and leadership of Mao Zedong

Opposition to Mao within the communist party

Role of the communist party in the new government

Social reforms, including the emancipation of woman and universal education

Part 4

Economic planning and its results, 1953-1967

Move to collectivisation

Industry and the First Five-Year Plan 1953-7

The collectivisation of agriculture, 1953-1957

The hundred flower campaign

Part 5

The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960

Ideology behind Great Leap Forward

Agricultural Communes

Failure of the Great Leap Forward

The third five year plan, 1962-1967

Part 6

The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath 1966-76  

Origins of the Cultural Revolution

The course of the Cultural Revolution

Spread of the Cultural Revolution October 1966-Jan 1967

Reasons for the de-radicalisation of the Cultural Revolution

Part 7 

The effects of the Cultural Revolution

Effects on Cultural and Intellectual Life

The Shanghai Radical

Lin Biao’s enforced exit

How Mao’s death affected China

A Sixties Social Revolution? British Society 1959-1975

Investigate the nature and the extent to which there was social and cultural changes in Britain during the 1960s

Part 1

The political framework, 1959-1964

The effect of post-war prosperity by the end of the 1950s

The 1950 General Election and its significance

Part 2

Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64

Harold Macmillan’s leadership

The Profumo affair

Change in conservative leadership

Part 3

Cause of social and cultural change in the sixties

Increased purchasing power and the growth in the consumer spending

Scientific advances, colour television and mass communications

Part 4

Growth of Mass Media

The expansion of mass media, including, growth of television, changed in radio, the press and the spread of advertising

Part 5

Increase of Leisure Time

Leisure at home

Environmental changes

Tourism and foreign influences

Part 6

Changes in Culture and Society

The emergence of youth culture, new trends in fashion and popular music

Part 7

Youth Rebellion and Radicalism

Student Radicalism

Anti-War demonstrations

The rise of CND

Part 8

Social changes

The abolition of the death penalty

Abortion, Divorce, Homosexuality

Cinema, Literature, Television,

Challenges to traditional ideas of women’s role in society

Changing moral attitudes and the debate surrounding social change and the permissive society

Part 9

The Government and modernisation of society, 1964-1975

The election of the labour government of 1964

Edward Heath’s conservative government 1970-74

Part 10

Greater equality for woman – early 1970s

Progress towards the equality for woman

Changes to property law, divorce law 

The Equal Pay Act of 1970, Sex Discrimination Act of 1975

Part 11

Education

Tony Crosland and the comprehensive schools

University expansion and Open University

Part 12

The beginnings of Multiculturalism

The extent of New Commonwealth immigration in the 1960s

The issue of settlement and nationality: the response of the political parties, trade unions and the mass media to immigration

The extent to which Britain was a multicultural society by 1975

Unit 3-The State and the People: Change and Continuity

Overview:

Unit 3 promotes an understanding of change and continuity over approximately 50 years.  The relationship between the state and the people are explored.  Develops students understanding of how a particular issue, such as the impact of religious belief, interacted with other issues in a short period and how this issue changed in significance over the 50- year period.

France and the Enlightenment: Absolution Under Threat, 1743-1789 

Covering the crisis of the French monarchy under Louis XV and Louis XVI.

Part 1

Louis XV: The ‘Well Beloved’, 1743-1764

Attempted assassination; rumours of the kings involvement in the pacte de famine and the affair of the innocents.

The Role of the ministers and favourites

Conflicts between King and Parliament

Part 2

Louis XV, 1764-1774: The Return of Absolutism?

Brittany affair and the Maupeou revolution

The Trimvirate

Growth of the press and rise of the public sphere

The Philosophes and religion

Part 3

Louis XVI: Pressure on absolutism – 1774-1787

Louis XVI – personality

Politic under Louis XVI

The Diamond necklace affair

Finance 1774-1787

Part 4

The collapse of the ancient Regime 1787-1789

Marie Antoinette’s reputation and influence in government; aristocratic reaction

Necker’s problems and planning for the Estates General

Economic situation of the populace.

The state and People; Britain 1918-1964

Overview of change and continuity in Britain from the end of the First World Was to the election of 1964, through periods of peace and war to an era of consensus and affluence.

Part 1 

Victory and Crises: 1918-1931

Lloyd George and post-war reconstruction

The First Labour Government 1929: aims, policies and problems

Baldwin and the Conservative government 1924-1929

Strengths of the Conservative Party

Cultural changes – the role of woman and social and cultural mores

Part 2

The National Government and inter-war changes, 1931 – 1939

Social and economic conditions

Social impact of the depression in Britain

Government economic policy – unemployment and poverty

The Abdication Crisis and its impact 1936

Part 3

The impact of war and post-war reconstruction, 1939-1951

Churchill’s coalition government 1940-1945

The Beveridge Report 1941

The General Election of 1945

Leading Members of the Labour Government

Part 4

Post War Economic Problems

Labours Nationalisation Programme

Creation of welfare state; education and social policies

Part 5

General Election of October 1951

Conservative Government 1951 -1964

Churchill’s Government 1951-55

Anthony Eden’s Government 1955-57

Part 6

Conservatives and the Economy 1951-64

Quality of life under the Conservatives

Main developments 1957-64

Britain and European Economic Community

Consensus politics

Unit 4 – Historical Enquiry

Overview of the Module:

Students will be required to submit a Historical Enquiry, based on the investigation of a historical issue.  The issue must be of sufficient depth and detail whilst covering 100 years.  The issue must allow focus on a significant issue or debate.

Students should evaluate a range of sources, which may include: textbooks, biographies, diaries, TV programmes, films, paintings, newspapers, museums and the internet.  A historical enquiry based on a range of appropriate secondary sources will also be acceptable.  

The topic chosen must be set on either a country or period different to that studied in Unit 3.  If the chosen topic covers part of the chronological period in either unit 1 or unit 2 then the focus of the enquiry must be on significantly different material.  In order to avoid duplication and overlap, a chronological and thematic approach should be taken.

Unit 1 - Change and Consolidation

Overview:

This unit promotes the understanding of change over time, of at least 50 years.  Focuses on how governments establish themselves and respond to the need for change.    The student will develop a strong sense of historical perspective and understand the relationships between key feature and characteristics of the period of study.

Britain, 1603-1642

An overview is provided of the changing relationships between Crown, Parliament and people in Britain during the reigns of James I and Charles I.

Part 1

The Reign of James I: the Establishment of the Authority, 1603-1618

The position of the monarchy, the ideas of James I and the union of the two crowns

King James I England and VI Scotland – The man

The divine right of kings and the royal prerogative

The position of the Church under James I, including his response to challenges from Roman 

Catholics and Puritans

The Elizabethan settlement of 1559

James and his relationship with the various religious communities

James I’s relationship with Parliament, including conflicts over finance

The form of Apology of the House of Commons

The Committee of the whole house – 1607

The influence of Court favourites

Part 2 

The Stuart Monarchy, 1618-1629

The foreign policies of James I and Charles I

The career and influence of Buckingham

Religious issues and rise of Arminianism

Parliament 1618–21 

Relations between Crown and Parliament

Part 3

The Personal Rule of Charles I, 1629-1640

The ideas of Charles I on monarchy and the concept of Divine Right

Charles I’s rule without parliament

The role and influence of Wentworth

Religious issues including Laud’s reforms, and the influence of Catholicism at Court 

1629-40 – Personal Rule and financial issues

Archbishop Laud

The role and influence of Wentworth – earl of Stafford

Part 4

Charles and the Origins of the Civil War, 1640-1642

The reasons why Charles I recalled Parliament, including his difficulties with Scotland and Ireland

Opposition and faction within the Parliament, including the role and influence of John Pym

The actions of Charles I in the political crisis of 1640-1642

Reasons for the outbreak of war

The nineteen propositions

Totalitarian Ideology in Theory and in Practice, c1848-c1941

An overview of the development of totalitarian ideologies as they developed from the mid-nineteenth century.  An opportunity to investigate three totalitarian regimes and the extent to which ideology shaped them.

Part 1

The USSR and Marxism

Marxist stage theory, including the dictatorship of the proletariat and how it was adapted by Lenin and Stalin

Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks

The intolerance of diversity in the 1930’s, with reference to economic, political, religious and cultural diversity, including and purges

Three stages of Stalin’s rise to power

Part 2

Stalin’s Soviet Union in the 1930s

State measures used to achieve economic progress

Why did Stalin carry out the purges?

The cult of Stalin

Part 3

Fascist Ideology and Italian Fascism

History of Fascism

Features of Fascist Ideology

Different Strands within Fascism

How Mussolini adapted Fascism

Part 4

The Italian Fascist state of the 1930s

Suppression of political diversity

Woman in Fascist Italy

Racism against Germans and Slavs

The intolerance of diversity with reference to political, economic, religious and cultural diversity

Part 5

Nazi Germany

Nazi ideology, with reference to nationalism, socialism, race and anti-semitism and Volksgemeinschaft

The rise to power of Adolf Hitler

Development of Nazi Ideology

Hitler’s rise to power 1928-33

Political background to Hitler’s chancellorship

Establishment of Hitler’s Dictatorship – January 1933-August 1934

Part 6

The Nazi State in the 1930s

Nazi Germany’s intolerance of diversity

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 1938

Propaganda and the Nazi leadership

The Fuhrerprinzip (Principle of the Fuhrer)

The Totalitarianism of the three regimes

Unit 2 - Historical Issues: Periods of Change

Overview:

Unit 2 promotes the study of significant periods of history in depth.  An understanding of the complexity of historical process is established.  

The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976

An opportunity to analyse the extent to which Mao Zalong transformed China in the years between the start of the Civil War in 1946 and his death in 1976.

Part 1

The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976

The strengths and weaknesses of the Guomindang at the start of the civil war, including the role and influence of Chiang Kai Shek

Communist retreat

The long march

Part 2

The Civil war, 1946-1949

Political and military strength of the CCP in 1946

Ideological differences between Nationalist and Communists

The people republic of china is born

Reasons for the ultimate Communist victory

Part 3

The Consolidation of Power, 1949-1953

The ideology and leadership of Mao Zedong

Opposition to Mao within the communist party

Role of the communist party in the new government

Social reforms, including the emancipation of woman and universal education

Part 4

Economic planning and its results, 1953-1967

Move to collectivisation

Industry and the First Five-Year Plan 1953-7

The collectivisation of agriculture, 1953-1957

The hundred flower campaign

Part 5

The Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960

Ideology behind Great Leap Forward

Agricultural Communes

Failure of the Great Leap Forward

The third five year plan, 1962-1967

Part 6

The Cultural Revolution and its aftermath 1966-76  

Origins of the Cultural Revolution

The course of the Cultural Revolution

Spread of the Cultural Revolution October 1966-Jan 1967

Reasons for the de-radicalisation of the Cultural Revolution

Part 7 

The effects of the Cultural Revolution

Effects on Cultural and Intellectual Life

The Shanghai Radical

Lin Biao’s enforced exit

How Mao’s death affected China

A Sixties Social Revolution? British Society 1959-1975

Investigate the nature and the extent to which there was social and cultural changes in Britain during the 1960s

Part 1

The political framework, 1959-1964

The effect of post-war prosperity by the end of the 1950s

The 1950 General Election and its significance

Part 2

Leadership of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home 1959-64

Harold Macmillan’s leadership

The Profumo affair

Change in conservative leadership

Part 3

Cause of social and cultural change in the sixties

Increased purchasing power and the growth in the consumer spending

Scientific advances, colour television and mass communications

Part 4

Growth of Mass Media

The expansion of mass media, including, growth of television, changed in radio, the press and the spread of advertising

Part 5

Increase of Leisure Time

Leisure at home

Environmental changes

Tourism and foreign influences

Part 6

Changes in Culture and Society

The emergence of youth culture, new trends in fashion and popular music

Part 7

Youth Rebellion and Radicalism

Student Radicalism

Anti-War demonstrations

The rise of CND

Part 8

Social changes

The abolition of the death penalty

Abortion, Divorce, Homosexuality

Cinema, Literature, Television,

Challenges to traditional ideas of women’s role in society

Changing moral attitudes and the debate surrounding social change and the permissive society

Part 9

The Government and modernisation of society, 1964-1975

The election of the labour government of 1964

Edward Heath’s conservative government 1970-74

Part 10

Greater equality for woman – early 1970s

Progress towards the equality for woman

Changes to property law, divorce law 

The Equal Pay Act of 1970, Sex Discrimination Act of 1975

Part 11

Education

Tony Crosland and the comprehensive schools

University expansion and Open University

Part 12

The beginnings of Multiculturalism

The extent of New Commonwealth immigration in the 1960s

The issue of settlement and nationality: the response of the political parties, trade unions and the mass media to immigration

The extent to which Britain was a multicultural society by 1975

Unit 3-The State and the People: Change and Continuity

Overview:

Unit 3 promotes an understanding of change and continuity over approximately 50 years.  The relationship between the state and the people are explored.  Develops students understanding of how a particular issue, such as the impact of religious belief, interacted with other issues in a short period and how this issue changed in significance over the 50- year period.

France and the Enlightenment: Absolution Under Threat, 1743-1789 

Covering the crisis of the French monarchy under Louis XV and Louis XVI.

Part 1

Louis XV: The ‘Well Beloved’, 1743-1764

Attempted assassination; rumours of the kings involvement in the pacte de famine and the affair of the innocents.

The Role of the ministers and favourites

 Conflicts between King and Parliament

Part 2

Louis XV, 1764-1774: The Return of Absolutism?

Brittany affair and the Maupeou revolution

The Trimvirate

Growth of the press and rise of the public sphere

The Philosophes and religion

Part 3

Louis XVI: Pressure on absolutism – 1774-1787

Louis XVI – personality

Politic under Louis XVI

The Diamond necklace affair

Finance 1774-1787

Part 4

The collapse of the ancient Regime 1787-1789

Marie Antoinette’s reputation and influence in government; aristocratic reaction

Necker’s problems and planning for the Estates General

Economic situation of the populace.

The state and People; Britain 1918-1964

Overview of change and continuity in Britain from the end of the First World Was to the election of 1964, through periods of peace and war to an era of consensus and affluence.

Part 1 

Victory and Crises: 1918-1931

Lloyd George and post-war reconstruction

The First Labour Government 1929: aims, policies and problems

Baldwin and the Conservative government 1924-1929

Strengths of the Conservative Party

Cultural changes – the role of woman and social and cultural mores

Part 2

The National Government and inter-war changes, 1931 – 1939

Social and economic conditions

Social impact of the depression in Britain

Government economic policy – unemployment and poverty

The Abdication Crisis and its impact 1936

Part 3

The impact of war and post-war reconstruction, 1939-1951

Churchill’s coalition government 1940-1945

The Beveridge Report 1941

The General Election of 1945

Leading Members of the Labour Government

Part 4

Post War Economic Problems

Labours Nationalisation Programme

Creation of welfare state; education and social policies

Part 5

General Election of October 1951

Conservative Government 1951 -1964

Churchill’s Government 1951-55

Anthony Eden’s Government 1955-57

Part 6

Conservatives and the Economy 1951-64

Quality of life under the Conservatives

Main developments 1957-64

Britain and European Economic Community

Consensus politics

Unit 4 – Historical Enquiry

Overview of the Module:

Students will be required to submit a Historical Enquiry, based on the investigation of a historical issue.  The issue must be of sufficient depth and detail whilst covering 100 years.  The issue must allow focus on a significant issue or debate.

Students should evaluate a range of sources, which may include: textbooks, biographies, diaries, TV programmes, films, paintings, newspapers, museums and the internet.  A historical enquiry based on a range of appropriate secondary sources will also be acceptable.  

The topic chosen must be set on either a country or period different to that studied in Unit 3.  If the chosen topic covers part of the chronological period in either unit 1 or unit 2 then the focus of the enquiry must be on significantly different material.  In order to avoid duplication and overlap, a chronological and thematic approach should be taken.

Qualification

Qualification

AS +A2 = A level in History. 

Both AS and A2 level courses and examinations must be successfully completed to gain a full A level.

Language of Examination

English

Examination Centre

You can find a full list of private candidate centres here: AQA Private Candidate Centres

Start Learning will provide you with a list of examination centres but it is entirely your responsibility to find a centre which will accept you as an external candidate.
In some cases you should be prepared to travel to another town or city to take your exams.

Start Learning provides expertise support and advice for students in their studies through their comprehensive course packs and tutoring system. However, we do stress that it is the student’s responsibility to find a centre to register and take their exams with. We are aware that sometimes this is difficult or even impossible to arrange.

Now we have come to an arrangement with a centrally located centre where Start Learning students will be able to take their exams. It is the English Maths Science Tuition & Educational Centre, located in Birmingham, right in the centre of England.

We realise this may still involve a good deal of travelling for some students but the long-term benefits of being able to gain A Levels far outweigh the short-term  expense and inconvenience.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.englishandmaths.com/Index.php

or: English Maths Science Tuition Centre Ltd.
40 Showell Green lane
Sparkhill
Birmingham,
B11 4JP
England
United Kingdom

Tel: 0121-771-1298

The contract for sitting exams is between you and the centre and we will provide you with comprehensive instructions on when and how to deal with the examination centre.

Summary of Examinations

Unit 1 – Change and Consolidation

• 25% of A Level
• 1 hour 15 minutes written examination
• 72 marks

Unit 2 - Historical Issues: Periods of Change
• 25% of A Level
• 1 hour 30 minutes written examination
• 72 marks

Unit 3 - The State and the People: Change and Continuity
• 30% of A Level
• 1 hour 30 minutes written examination
• 90 marks

Unit 4 – Historical Enquiry
• 20 % of A Level
• Coursework unit
• 60 marks
• Approximately 3500 words on an analysis of a historical issue

Qualification

AS +A2 = A level in History. Both AS and A2 level courses and examinations must be successfully completed to gain a full A level.

FAQ's

Q: What are the qualifications required to enrol onto this course?
A: Basic English reading and writing skills are required.  We recommend you have general skills and knowledge associated with a GCSE course or equivalent.

Q: Do I have to sit an exam?
A: Yes, to gain your full A Level Qualification, you are required to sit an exam.  Exams are held at test centres which can be found in major towns and cities throughout the UK.  Please contact Start Learning for a list of test centres.  Exams can be taken in January and June, please visit the AQA website for further details and exam timetables.   

Q: How long do I have access to the personal tutor service?
A: The personal tutor service is available for 16 months from when the study materials are received.  At Start Learning we aim help our students to the best of our ability; therefore we are always delighted to answer questions and queries out with the 16 month period.
Q: Do your courses meet the latest syllabus changes?
A: yes, all our course materials meet any changes and will be updated free of charge if further changes are made.

Q: How much are exam fees?
A: These vary from centre to centre so please check with your local centre.

Q: Is this A Level History course paper based or on-line?
A: Our A Level History course is paper based and comes in an attractive folder.

Q: I want to take my exams but there are only a few months to study, is this possible?
A: Depending on the time of year, it is sometimes impossible to complete your studies in a short space of time as your work has to be marked and checked. More importantly the examination boards have cut off times which are not flexible. See the AQA website for further information.

Q: Will I receive UCAS points on completion of this course?
A: Yes all of our A Levels carry UCAS points. The number of points awarded will depend on the grade you achieve.

Q: I still have questions? / I would like more information?
A:  If you require more information please do not hesitate to contact Start Learning via email: info@start-learning.co.uk or call us on 0800 074 1222 or 0141 218 4424.

We look forward to hearing from you.