The final exam that blindsided 140 year 12 students

QUESTION 1 (3 points): Use the evidence from Source 1 in the exhortation book to explain two ways in which Caesar leveraged his family connections to further his political career.

QUESTION 2 (10 points): Analyze the evidence in Sources 2 and 3 of the exhortation to explain the extent of Caesar’s success as a military commander in Gaul. In your answer, use evidence to explain the possible reason for the creation of each resource.

QUESTION 3 (11 points): Evaluate the reliability and usefulness of the evidence in Sources 4 and 5 of the exhortation to understand Caesar’s intentions in establishing the Triumvirate. For each source, describe a reliability judgment and a usefulness judgment.

QUESTION 4 (16 points): Synthesize evidence from sources 6, 7, 8, and 9 in the incentive book to develop a historical argument in response to the question: To what extent did the conspirators kill Caesar for the good of the Roman Republic? Include an explanation of how evidence from two of these sources supports a point made in your historical argument.

2510 students took the exam in 172 schools across the state. The QCAA said pupils in nine schools were being taught the wrong subject.

A spokesman for Catholic Education in Brisbane said St Teresa’s Catholic College in Noosaville, one of nine schools on the list, detected the mix-up earlier in the year and that students had learned about Julius Caesar last term.

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Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek Ordered QCAA to conduct review To their communications with schools to understand what went wrong.

Schools that discovered the error last week applied to the QCAA for special consideration due to “illness or misfortune”.

But because tests had to be standardized across all schools, there was no room for a rewritten or replacement test.

The QCAA also said creating a test requires “several rounds of checks and edits” and can take weeks or months, depending on the issue.

Queensland’s year 12 external examinations will continue for a few more weeks. Modern history students took the exam on Monday.

On Tuesday, students will take general mathematics, the second largest group of subjects with 21,350 students. Nearly 28,000 students took the English exam on Tuesday last week.

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