The IGCSE in History qualification enables students to:

• Develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide diversity of human experience.
• Engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers.
• Develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context.
• Develop an awareness that different people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them.
• Organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.