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Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 — exam questions
11 original Incandio exam-style questions on Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948, 96 marks, about 144 minutes of writing. Each one carries the command word, the tariff and the specification statement it assesses, exactly as a paper presents them. This is an original Incandio practice question, written to reflect the structure and demands of the qualification. It is not an official Pearson Edexcel past-paper question.
This is the practice set for Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 — the option that teaches it. Read the option first if the idea is new; come here when you want to find out whether you can turn it into marks. Completely free, no account needed to read.
What these questions ask of you
2 command words run through this set, and on Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History each one means something precise. Answering the wrong command is the commonest way a candidate who understands the option still loses the mark.
- Explain (6–8 marks)
- TWO of whatever is asked for — effects, causes or ways — each analysed and shown to lead somewhere Misread as: one of them explained superbly, which is capped at 4 with no access to Level 3
- How (8–16 marks)
- a judgement on the EXTENT, built from both sides — agreement and disagreement, or three aspects and a criterion Misread as: agreement only on the source question (capped at 4), or the two printed bullets and nothing else on the sixteen-marker (held at 10)
Assessed on Paper 1 (4HI1/01) and Paper 2 (4HI1/02), against AO1, AO2.
Where these sit in the specification
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE History (4HI1) — statements 4HI1 B2.4 AO1 · 4HI1 B2.4 AO2 · 4HI1 B2.5 AO1 · 4HI1 B2.5 AO2 · 4HI1 B2.1 AO1 · 4HI1 B2.1 AO2 · 4HI1 B2.2 AO1 · 4HI1 B2.2 AO2 · 4HI1 B2.3 AO1 · 4HI1 B2.3 AO2. Incandio is aligned to this specification; it is not published by, endorsed by or affiliated with Pearson, and it reproduces none of Pearson's wording.
The 11 questions
Answer them on paper, then open the option's exam practice to have them marked. The mark scheme, the accepted and rejected answers and the annotated model answer are in Incandio and are not printed here — an answer beside its question is not practice.
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which health care in Britain after 1948 was different from health care in 1911.
(Total for Question 1 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which public health provision in 1848 was different from public health provision in 1875.
(Total for Question 2 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which surgery in the 1890s was different from surgery in the 1860s.
(Total for Question 3 = 6 marks)
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(6)Explain
Explain TWO ways in which the role of women in medicine in 1918 was different from their role in 1860.
(Total for Question 4 = 6 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the development of aseptic surgery in the years 1875–1905.
(Total for Question 5 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the high death rate from disease in British towns in the mid-nineteenth century.
(Total for Question 6 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the Liberal welfare reforms of 1906–11.
(Total for Question 7 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the delay in the development of penicillin between 1928 and 1940.
(Total for Question 8 = 8 marks)
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(8)Explain
Explain TWO causes of the resistance to Lister's antiseptic methods in the years 1867–75.
(Total for Question 9 = 8 marks)
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(16)How
How significant was government action in improving public health in the years c1848–c1948? You may use the following in your answer: • the Public Health Act (1875) • the National Health Service (1948). You must also use information of your own. • the Public Health Act (1875) • the National Health Service (1948)
(Total for Question 10 = 16 marks)
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(16)How
How significant was the work of individuals in the fight against infectious disease in the years c1848–c1948? You may use the following in your answer: • Pasteur and Koch • Fleming, Florey and Chain. You must also use information of your own. • Pasteur and Koch • Fleming, Florey and Chain
(Total for Question 11 = 16 marks)
Have them marked, then defend the answer
Practice tells you the mark; teaching it back tells you whether you understand it. On Incandio a topic counts as mastered only once you have taught it and defended it.
- Mark these questions — 11 questions, marked on Incandio against the authored scheme, with the mistake you actually made named.
- Teach it — explain Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 to Ember, an AI pupil who does not have it yet and asks the awkward question.
- Defend it — three rounds against the mind with the strongest claim on it, marked against descriptors you can read first.
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Back to the option
- Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 — Option B2: progress in the mid-19th century; Nightingale, Chadwick, Snow and Simpson; discovery and development, 1860–75; Lister and Pasteur; accelerating change, 1875–1905; Ehrlich, Koch and chemistry; government action and war, 1905–20; advances in medicine, surgery and public health 1920–48; the NHS.
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