MATSEC IM History study guide
MATSEC IM History · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
MATSEC IM History is an Intermediate-level (IM) subject examination offered under the MATSEC Examinations Board, which is part of L-Università ta' Malta. The Board publishes its own regulations, guidelines and policies, syllabi, current session information, past papers, and marking schemes and exemplars as separate sections of its site, so the syllabus document - not second-hand summaries - is the authoritative statement of what the paper assesses and how it is marked. The qualification suits candidates who have already secured the basics of historical study and want a broader, source-based engagement with the discipline: working with evidence, explaining causation and change over time, and constructing argued written answers rather than merely recalling narrative. It is typically taken alongside other Intermediate subjects and is useful for anyone progressing toward humanities or social science study at university level, as well as for candidates returning to study who want a structured historical component in their portfolio. Topics on this exam: History (Intermediate Level, MATSEC syllabus). The MATSEC IM History study guide has 1 section and about 451 words.
01MATSEC Intermediate History: Evidence, Causation and Judgement
MATSEC Intermediate History (University of Malta) assesses both a chronological knowledge base - Maltese, Mediterranean and European - and the discipline's own skills: interpreting sources, explaining change, weighing causes and reaching a defensible judgement. Essay papers reward argument and precise evidence, not narrated recall; source papers reward provenance analysis and cross-referencing rather than quotation. Order of St John, 1530–1798: 1565 Siege, the building of Valletta, Hospitaller administration and its eighteenth-century decline. French occupation 1798–1800, then British Malta: 1814 Treaty of Paris, the language and education conflicts of the 1830s, the 1921 Amery Constitution and self-government, suspension of the constitution in 1933, the George Cross (1942), the restoration of self-government in 1947, the failed integration talks of 1955–58, Independence in 1964, Republic in 1974.
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