Examiner's Specific Advice

The best answers will focus directly on the question ‘how far?’, have arguments dealing with separate problems arranged into structured paragraphs, and use knowledge to support explanations. Above all, they will offer comparative assessments of different factors or discuss the relative importance of events. They will steer clear of including too much description of events (‘how’ the problems were tackled) and instead focus on analysis of the degree to which Henry VII solved them.

Less effective essays are likely to supply more general comments without relevant supporting details. They will probably consider one or two problems rather than several – for instance, they may only consider Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck – and will fail to use their historical knowledge effectively.

Exemplar Question

1. How far did Henry VII solve his internal problems between 1485 and 1509? [50 marks]

 

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