History GCSE Level 1/2

Applications Open: 12th December 2025

Applications Close: 30th January 2026

Entry Requirements: Grade requirements: A minimum of 48 points from your best 8 GCSE grades with no less than a Grade 5 in all subjects taken. Certain subjects have additional specific entry requirements. Information on these can be found in the online prospectus.

How to apply: Applications should be made directly to the School via Applicaa which will be available from the Sixth Form area of the School's website.

https://twgsb.org.uk/sixth-form/sixth-form-admissions/applying-to-twgsb6

Please DO NOT apply via Kent Choices.

The History department prepares and enters students for the Edexcel History specification A, Modern World History.

WHY STUDY MODERN WORLD HISTORY?

• Because it will help you to understand the world you live in, the events of the last 100 years and help to explain the problems and opportunities of the world today.

• Because of the very valuable skills you will develop. This could be the most important – in history you will deal with real people and you can work out why they did what they did. You will improve your ability to judge whether you are being told the truth, only part of the truth or something completely untrue.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

• About international relations- what leads to conflicts between countries and how these conflicts are settled. We study the periodof the Cold War, from 1943-1990

• About one nation in depth – which will help you understand how people in another place and time thought about the world. We study Germany from 1918-39

• About how historians use sources to find out about what happened – it could be the Trenches in the First World War or Civil Rights in the USA.

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?

For units 1, 2 and 3 you will have an exam. Unit 4 is a controlled assessment and you will research a task then write it up in the classroom.
Many of the question styles will be like those you have already done at Key Stage 3.There will be questions about what you know and have learned and other questions that are more about your own opinions and letting you give your own explanations and reasons for something that happened in the past.

You could take this course to prepare for advanced level courses such as an A/AS Level in History or you may need to strengthen your grades by completing a foundation or intermediate vocational qualification. With further training, you could go into a job related to history such as a Teacher, Historian or Archaeologist. You could also go straight into employment and do further training or part time study with the support of your employer.