How toppers approached this question
Explain how the American War of Independence deprived Great Britain of one empire, but it strengthened the foundations of another.
How toppers built answers of this type: the structure spine and the moves they converged on. Aggregated across real past-paper answers for this paper and directive, not this one question, so no question-specific evidence is shown. No answer text is reproduced.
The topper method
The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Problems then remedies
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration82% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Example as evidence56% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Directive-mirroring headers52% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
- Define the key term first49% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
- Verdict conclusion49% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
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