What can current and future students and their teachers learn from this?

• Choose suitable historical subjects for research when planning for the RSR. Consult the Guidelines for Teachers (page 14).
• Produce your own original and individual research from which to write up your RSR. Do not resort to plagiarism during the course of your research.
• Stay within the recommended word length for the RSR Extended Essay and do include a review of the research process as required.
• Students should adopt time-management strategies to ensure full, but not excessive, coverage of the DBQ in the examination.
• While case studies are important features of the syllabus, they should not become the exclusive basis for the answering of questions in Sections 2 and 3.
• Candidates should be aware from what perspective(s) a question is being asked and what narrative and/or analytical demands the question is making.
• Candidates, particularly at Higher level, should be prepared to engage in historical argument as part of their engagement with examination questions