Examiner’s Specific Advice

This question requires a range of skills and a focus on explanation rather than description. Be careful not to take too long over this 12-mark question – it is important to be concise and to judge the length of your answer to the marks allocated. In addition to explaining clearly a range of reasons, try to make links and judgements about the relative importance of the reasons given, or how they were interrelated. 

Exemplar Question

2 (03) Explain why the Anti-Corn Law League campaigned for the repeal of the Corn Laws in the years 1839 to 1846.
[12 marks]

Plan

• Aim of Anti-Corn Law League and link to wider campaign for free trade
• Economic case for repeal of Corn Laws
• Moral case for repeal
• Political objectives of ACLL

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