Primary sources · AS 92024
Engage with a variety of primary sources in a historical context
Level 1 · Year 115 creditsInternalAchievement StandardHistory 1.7
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National attainment · NZQA · 2024
9,736 students sat this in 2024 · 85% passed
Excellence0.0%
Merit0.0%
Achieved80.0%
Not Achieved20.0%
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This standard asks you to find and work with different types of historical primary sources (old letters, photographs, artefacts, oral histories, etc.) and show you can understand what they tell us about a historical topic. You'll need to pick relevant sources, explain what they mean, and discuss whether they're trustworthy or have limitations.
What you actually do
- ·Select a range of different primary sources that relate to your focus question or topic
- ·Annotate your sources by identifying what they reveal and how they connect to your historical question
- ·Identify the strengths and limitations of individual sources
- ·Assess how reliable or useful each source is as evidence
- ·Explain how the sources work together to build an overall picture of the historical context
AAchieved
You select a variety of primary sources relevant to your focus question and identify what the evidence shows and where sources have strengths or weaknesses.
MMerit
You select appropriate sources, identify the main ideas they contain through annotation, and explain both the strengths and limitations of your collection of sources.