GCSE Revision Tests

1. GCSE Revision Tests MEDICINE SOURCE COMPARISON PRACTICE 1To achieve your potential in your GCSE’s, you need to master the skills needed to answer thoroughly both the source and essay questions. The skills you practise through this presentation will equip you with these skills. Try the tasks as you go through the PowerPoint- “think before you click”.

2. GCSE Revision Tests BEFORE YOU START- REMEMBER! This is a worked example of a source question. It picks out every part and covers all those parts in its answer. It is written by members of staff, not GCSE students- so don’t panic that you have to do all these things to pass your GCSE! This presentation is training you on the skills you need- you would only have to pick out 2-3 points from the source to achieve a high mark. Check the mark scheme on a later slide to remind you of what you need to do to achieve your target grade.

3. GCSE Revision Tests This Skills Test will work through two sources from the “Medicine” section of the paper, and focus on a question that asks you to consider both sources. Click on to see the sources, and the question that follows!

4. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE A I found that nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump. People, of every age and occupation, rich and poor, were being supplied with water containing the sewage of London. Some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854. From John Snow’s report on how cholera was spread, published in 1854.

5. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE B If the Broad Street pump did actually become a source of disease, we believe that this may have been because its impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district. On the evidence, it seems impossible to doubt that the geographical distribution of cholera in London belongs more to the air than to the water. From the ‘Report of the Committee for Scientific Enquiry into the recent Cholera Epidemic’, published in 1855.

6. GCSE Revision Tests WHAT IS THE WAY TO “GET AN A”? CLICK TO REVEAL THE ANSWER!

7. GCSE Revision Tests Answer QuestionUse SourceOwn Knowledge AQUSOK

8. GCSE Revision Tests TASK ONE: What are the key words of the question?

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10. GCSE Revision Tests TASK TWO: USE THE SOURCE! What can you pick out from the sources? How do Source A and B link together? What is surprising about Source B? (Click on to study Source A)

11. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE A I found that nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump. People, of every age and occupation, rich and poor, were being supplied with water containing the sewage of London. Some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854. From John Snow’s report on how cholera was spread, published in 1854. Click on to reveal the answer!

12. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE A I found that nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump.People, of every age and occupation, rich and poor, were being supplied with water containing the sewage of London. Some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854. From John Snow’s report on how cholera was spread, published in 1854. Click on to reveal the answer!

13. GCSE Revision Tests People, of every age... were being supplied with water containing the sewage of London. This suggests that the sewage of London is linked to the deaths from the water pump all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump. This suggests that the water from the Broad Street Pump was responsible for the deaths. Some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854. This links the cholera outbreak to the waste from which the water for the Broad Street Pump comes from John Snow’s ...1854. This tells us who wrote this report, and when it was written. NOW LET’S MOVE ON TO SOURCE B!

14. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE B If the Broad Street pump did actually become a source of disease, we believe that this may have been because its impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district. On the evidence, it seems impossible to doubt that the geographical distribution of cholera in London belongs more to the air than to the water. From the ‘Report of the Committee for Scientific Enquiry into the recent Cholera Epidemic’, published in 1855.

15. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE B If the Broad Street pump did actually become a source of disease, we believe that this may have been because its impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district.On the evidence, it seems impossible to doubt that the geographical distribution of cholera in London belongs more to the air than to the water. From the ‘Report of the Committee for Scientific Enquiry into the recent Cholera Epidemic’, published in 1855.

16. GCSE Revision Tests its impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district. This suggests that the Enquiry does not agree with Snow’s theory of the sewage contaminating the water in the pump, but rather sticking to the theory of ‘bad air’, or ‘miasma’. On the evidence, it seems impossible to doubt that the geographical distribution of cholera in London belongs more to the air than to the water. This seems to suggest that they find it very hard to believe Snow’s theory. ‘Report of the Committee for Scientific Enquiry into the recent Cholera Epidemic’, published in 1855. This tells us that this was an official, Scientific Enquiry published after Snow’s report.

17. GCSE Revision Tests • TASK THREE: WHAT DO YOU KNOW? • What do you know about: • Disease and Public Health in the 19th Century? • The work of John Snow? • THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK ON!

18. GCSE Revision Tests TASK THREE: What do I know that can add to the quality of my answer? Disease & Public Health in the 19th Century: For hundred of years people had known that there was a link between dirt and disease, but no one was sure exactly what it was. The population grew so rapidly during the 19th century that condition in British towns became worse than ever, as the towns could not cope with the need to house people, or provide them with water and facilities to remove their sewage. This caused killer diseases like cholera to spread to epidemic levels. There were many disagreements over the governments role in Public Health. Some people thought the government should force local councils to clean up the towns, whilst other adopted a laissez-faire attitude, believing that the government should keep out of people’s lives. They certainly did not want the government to force them to pay for improvements to their town.

19. GCSE Revision Tests TASK THREE: What do I know that can add to the quality of my answer? John Snow: in 1854 Dr. John Snow made a breakthrough in proving that there was a link between cholera and water supply. He used meticulous research, observation and house-to-house interviews to build up a detailed picture of a limited cholera epidemic that hit one particular area of central London- Broad Street. His discoveries led to the removal of the water pump, and the discovery that a cesspool was seeping into the drinking water.

20. GCSE Revision Tests TASK FOUR: Remind yourself of the “Criteria for Success!” Take a look at this generic mark scheme- what must you do in order to reach your target grade? In the exam, this won’t be available of course, but you can still remember the key to success- AQUSOK!

21. GCSE Revision Tests REMEMBER-E: Makes a general assertion about whether Source B surprises them. D: Highlight from the source things that might be surprising. C: Use source OR own knowledge to identify why the source is surprising. B: Uses source AND own knowledge to answer question; EXPLAINS why Source B is surprising. A: Source and own knowledge INTEGRATED together to answer the question; DETAILED EXPLANATION of why the source may/may not be surprising. A*: All aspects of ‘A’ grade included, with clear explanation of why these two sources is or is not surprising.

22. GCSE Revision Tests Why not have a go then? On the next slide you’ll see the sources & the question. On the slides that follow, you’ll see a model answer that you can compare yours to, and an explanation as to why the model answer is so good!

23. GCSE Revision Tests SOURCE A I found that nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump. People, of every age and occupation, rich and poor, were being supplied with water containing the sewage of London. Some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854. From John Snow’s report on how cholera was spread, published in 1854. SOURCE B If the Broad Street pump did actually become a source of disease, we believe that this may have been because its impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district. On the evidence, it seems impossible to doubt that the geographical distribution of cholera in London belongs more to the air than to the water. From the ‘Report of the Committee for Scientific Enquiry into the recent Cholera Epidemic’, published in 1855.

24. GCSE Revision Tests Source B is quite surprising in the light of Source A. Source A tells of Dr. John Snow’s discovery that “nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump”. I know that through his careful observation, he believed that the water pump was the cause of the of a cholera outbreak. He discovered that the water was contaminated, and that “some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854”. Source B, written one year later, is therefore surprising because the Committee for Scientific Enquiry disagree with Snow’s findings. They still believe that diseases such as Cholera was caused by bad air, known as ‘miasma’s’, and that as a result the people around Broad Street became ill because the pumps “...impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district”. They have ignored John Snow’s theories, despite claiming to be the ‘Committee for Scientific Enquiry’. To me, Snow’s findings make sense, but perhaps the Committee disregarded them because ‘Germ Theory’, discovered by Louis Pasteur, did not happen for another 30 years. Snow could not explain his results, only suggest that the pump was removed. Without Pasteur’s explanation, the Committee may have disregarded Snow’s work, so in that sense I am not completely surprised.

25. GCSE Revision Tests Why is this answer so good? Have a go at AQUSOK-ING it!

26. GCSE Revision Tests Source B is quite surprising in the light of Source A. Source A tells of Dr. John Snow’s discovery that “nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump”. I know that through his careful observation, he believed that the water pump was the cause of the of a cholera outbreak. He discovered that the water was contaminated, and that “some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854”. Source B, written one year later, is therefore surprising because the Committee for Scientific Enquiry disagree with Snow’s findings. They still believe that diseases such as Cholera was caused by bad air, known as ‘miasma’s’, and that as a result the people around Broad Street became ill because the pumps “...impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district”. They have ignored John Snow’s theories, despite claiming to be the ‘Committee for Scientific Enquiry’. To me, Snow’s findings make sense, but perhaps the Committee disregarded them because ‘Germ Theory’, discovered by Louis Pasteur, did not happen for another 30 years. Snow could not explain his results, only suggest that the pump was removed. Without Pasteur’s explanation, the Committee may have disregarded Snow’s work, so in that sense I am not completely surprised.

27. GCSE Revision Tests MODEL ANSWER-ANSWER QUESTION, USE SOURCE, OWN KNOWLEDGE Source B is quite surprising in the light of Source A. Source A tells of Dr. John Snow’s discovery that “nearly all deaths had taken place within a short distance of the Broad Street water pump”. I know that through his careful observation, he believed that the water pump was the cause of the of a cholera outbreak.He discovered that the water was contaminated, and that “some of this was the human waste from cholera patients who died just before the great outbreak of cholera in 1854”. Source B, written one year later, is therefore surprising because the Committee for Scientific Enquiry disagree with Snow’s findings. They still believe that diseases such as Cholera was caused by bad air, known as ‘miasma’s’, and that as a result the people around Broad Street became ill because the pumps “...impure waters had soaked up the infection from the bad air of the district”. They have ignored John Snow’s theories, despite claiming to be the ‘Committee for Scientific Enquiry’. To me, Snow’s findings make sense, but perhaps the Committee disregarded them because ‘Germ Theory’, discovered by Louis Pasteur, did not happen for another 30 years. Snow could not explain his results, only suggest that the pump was removed. Without Pasteur’s explanation, the Committee may have disregarded Snow’s work, so in that sense I am not completely surprised.

28. GCSE Revision Tests • WHY GIVE IT FULL MARKS? • It directly answers the question • It quotes from the sources. • It includes knowledge relevant to both sources • It integrates (combines) talking about the source and including its own knowledge • It keeps its knowledge focused on the question • It makes sure its conclusion clearly answers the question.

29. GCSE Revision Tests Follow this procedure in answering source questions, and (providing you’re revising!!) you’re guaranteed to succeed! GOOD LUCK!