You should attempt the following 12-mark extended response question from the 2018 Past Paper:

Analyse the impact of the dominant ideas of a political party on its electoral performance.

Under examination conditions, the writing of a response to this style of question should take no more than 25 minutes.

You are not going to write your response to this question under examination conditions, so you should expect this task to take around 1 hour to complete.

For 12-mark responses, a maximum of 8 marks can be awarded for knowledge and understanding (description, explanation and exemplification) and the remaining four marks for demonstration of the higher-order skill of analysis. 

It is advisable to include 4 descriptive points, 4 examples and 4 pieces of analysis.

You should write about two or three dominant ideas of one political party.

There is no requirement for you to write an introduction or conclusion for a 12-mark extended response style question.