The ‘Methods in Context question’ appears on papers 1 of both the AS and A Level exams, and will ask you to apply any of the main research method to any topic within education. This hand-out is written for students focussing on the A Level exam, but the advice should work just as well for anyone sitting the AS.
This brief hand-out covers the following processes of how to deal with Methods in Context (MIC) questions.
- It starts off by looking at an example of a methods in context question and a mark scheme and outlines what you need to do to get into the top three mark bands.
- It tells you how to plan methods in context essays, using the item!
- It tells you how to actually write methods in context essays – presenting a ‘safe’ strategy to get into at least mark band four (13-16)
- In total it provides three examples of how you might go about answering a three different MIC questions.
