The Modern History historical skills assessment type is assessed by the school and moderated at Stage 2. Teachers select moderation samples and submit materials online.

Students complete five historical skills assessments.

Students apply their skills of historical inquiry to research, explore, interpret, and communicate their understanding of ideas, people, and events in history. They apply their historical literacy skills, using historical sources, interpreting historical texts, and analysing and synthesising evidence to support and develop a reasoned argument on historical questions.

Two assessments must be based on the topic from ‘Modern Nations’ and three assessments must be based on the topic from ‘The World since 1945’.

Together, the five assessments comprise a maximum of 5000 words if written, or the equivalent in oral or multimodal form, where six minutes is equivalent to 1000 words.

Student work should be their own. See Supervision and verification of student work.

Teachers can access student samples for assessment type 1 via PLATO.