u/Any-Organization2201

It's great to join everyone doing A level history!
As part of our school's summer work, we have been set a Russia source question to complete (we do AQA). I have basic knowledge of the content from the other tasks we have been set, but not given any information on how to answer questions. I'm wondering if I just approach it with the GCSE formula, or if anyone can explain simply how to structure an A level response?
All help is appreciated :)

The source q for reference:
Read the source below. How valuable this source is to a historian studying Nicholas II and his rule of Russia? (This is an A-Level style question, which I will take in for marking in September). (total 30 minutes)

He merely believed what his father and Pobedonostev [his tutor] had installed into him; there would be no Russia without autocracy; Russia and the autocracy were one; he himself was the impersonation of the autocracy. So the magic circle closed. There was no way out, unless it was into disaster and void. Living in the twentieth century, he had the mentality of the Muscovite Kings. The daily work of a monarch he found intolerably boring. He could not stand listening long or seriously to ministers’ reports, or reading them. He liked such ministers as could tell an amusing story and did not weary the monarch’s attention with too much business. When it came to defending his divine right his usual indifference left him, he became cunning, obstinate and cruel, merciless at times. Taken from Alexander Kerensky’s memoirs, Crucifixion of Liberty, written in 1934. Kerensky was a lawyer who became involved in radical politics. In 1905 he spent time in prison for publishing a socialist newspaper. By 1917 he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries and was a member of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia following the overthrow of the Tsar. He was himself overthrown by the Bolsheviks in October 1917 and fled to France where he wrote extensively on the Russian Revolution to attempt to explain his understanding of events to the wider world

Personally I love using Bonne Maman's dark cherry conserve with Whole Earth PB on some good sourdough, just curious what preferences other people have?

Maybe it was just me who noticed this but on the AQA biology paper this year, we had to write an extended answer question on how intensive farming practices lead to increased food security, and another on selective breeding in fish farming to increase profits for fish farmers.

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I felt disgusting having to write what I did for the marks, and knowing that this is what is being drilled into the minds of every year 11 in the UK through the education system was really disturbing for me, like a stark reminder that my values are so different from the world we live in and I am forced to conform to the normalised exploitation of animals to get by in life and progress my education.

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Hopefully I live to a time where this promotion of meat farming isn't a thing anymore.

Maybe it was just me who noticed this but on the AQA biology paper this year, we had to write an extended answer question on how intensive farming practices lead to increased food security, and another on selective breeding in fish farming to increase profits for fish farmers.

I felt disgusting having to write what I did for the marks, and knowing that this is what is being drilled into the minds of every year 11 in the UK through the education system was really disturbing for me, like a stark reminder that my values are so different from the world we live in and I am forced to conform to the normalised exploitation of animals to get by in life and progress my education.

Hopefully I live to a time where this promotion of meat farming isn't a thing anymore.