Study Source C.

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2023). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [Level 5: 8 marks] Explains that the purpose of the poster was to persuade men to join up and uses contextual knowledge / cross reference to explain why Belgium was useful for this purpose e.g., public opinion strongly sympathised with Belgium. Therefore, it might not be useful.
2. [Level 4: 6-7 marks] Uses contextual knowledge or cross reference to explain other reasons why Britain went to war – so not useful.
3. [Level 3: 4-5 marks] Infers that it tells us that Britain went to war to aid Belgium – must be supported by reference to the source.
4. [Level 2: 2-3 marks] Undeveloped use of provenance to reject the source e.g., it is from 1915 so cannot be useful about why Britain went to war / it's a recruiting poster, so it's not about why Britain went to war OR uses source details uncritically – e.g., it tells us Britain went to war to help women and children.
5. [Level 1: 1 mark] Unsupported assertions OR writes about the source but fails to get to grips with the question.
6. [Level 0: 0 marks] No evidence submitted OR response does not address the question.