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Advanced Higher History - question paper
Question paper 2023 (All links open as PDF files)
Please note: These commentaries were used as part of the advanced higher History question paper webinar in session 2021. A recording of this webinar is available in the advanced higher question paper 2021 section of the Webinars page.
Question paper 2021 (All links open as PDF files)
- 2021 Question paper (External link to SQA website)
- 2021 Marking instructions (External link to SQA website)
Question paper 2016 (All links open as PDF files)
Please note: Following revision to the question paper for session 2019-20, the marks in these examples are no longer in line with the revised requirements. However, the examples remain useful as a guide to the nature of the questions and range of answers. They should be viewed in conjunction with the revised Advanced Higher History Course Specification. https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/AHCourseSpecHistory.pdf
SECTION 2 - Scotland: Independence and Kingship, 1249-1334
- Candidate 1 (Questions 9,11,14,15,16)
- Candiddate 1 Evidence
- Candiddate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (Questions 9,12,14,15,16)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
SECTION 3 - Italy: the Renaissance in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries
- Candidate 1 (Questions 21,22)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (Questions 23,24)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
SECTION 4 - Scotland: from the Treaty of Union to the Enlightenment, 1707-1815
- Candidate 1 (Questions 25,30,31,32)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
SECTION 5 - USA: ‘A House Divided’, 1850–1865
- Candidate 1 (Questions 33,38,39,49)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
SECTION 6 - Japan: the Modernisation of a Nation, 1840–1920
- Candidate 1 (Questions 41,48)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (Questions 46,47)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
SECTION 7 - Germany: from Democracy to Dictatorship, 1918–1939
- Candidate 1 (Question 50)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
- Candidate 2 (Questions 49,54,55,56)
- Candidate 2 Evidence
- Candidate 2 Commentary
- Candidate 3 (Question 52)
- Candidate 3 Evidence
- Candidate 3 Commentary
SECTION 8 - South Africa: Race and Power, 1902–1984
- Candidate 1 (Questions 57,62,63)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
SECTION 9 - Russia: from Tsarism to Stalinism, 1914–1945
- Candidate 1 (Questions 66,70,71,72)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
SECTION 10 - Spain: the Civil War - Causes, Conflict and Consequences, 1923–1945
- Candidate 1 (Question 78)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
SECTION 11 - Britain: At War and Peace, 1938-51
- Candidate 1 (Questions 82,86,87,88)
- Candidate 1 Evidence
- Candidate 1 Commentary
