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The PRC 1949-1978 Paper 4: Error Clinic
The PRC 1949-1978 Paper 4: Error Clinic
Focused on the commonest sequencing errors: land reform dated to the founding day, a three-year First Plan and a Cultural Revolution rounded to a decade.
Direct answers Answers and explanations for all ten questions
01 Paper details (check answers afterwards)
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 10 |
| Suggested time | 20 |
| Difficulty mix | Foundation 3 · Intermediate 3 · Challenge 3 · Error redo 1 |
| Chapter | Chapter: DSE History The People’s Republic of China 1949-1978 |
| Level | Paper 4 (error clinic) |
02 Questions (10 items)
- FoundationError clinic: a student wrote that land reform was completed on the founding day in 1949. From the Land Reform Law of June 1950 to nationwide completion at the end of 1952, how many days is that?
- FoundationError clinic: the claim that the First Five-Year Plan ran three years from 1953. From early 1953 to the end of 1957, how many days and years is it really?
- FoundationError clinic: the claim that the Great Leap Forward and communisation happened in different years. Both fall in 1958; how many days separate the May conference from the August commune resolution?
- IntermediateError clinic: the claim that the Cultural Revolution lasted exactly ten years, 1966 to 1976. From the May 1966 notice to 6 October 1976, how many days and years is it?
- IntermediateError clinic: the claim that the bomb, the hydrogen bomb and the satellite came in the same year. How many days from the first atomic test (16 October 1964) to the first hydrogen bomb, and to the first satellite (24 April 1970)?
- IntermediateError clinic: the claim that the anti-rightist campaign lasted only two summer months in 1957. From its launch in June 1957 to its winding down in summer 1958, roughly how many days?
- ChallengeError clinic: the claim that the university entrance exam was suspended for only five years. From the June 1966 suspension to the December 1977 exam, how many days and years?
- ChallengeError clinic: the claim that Chinese forces fought only a few months in Korea. From the entry of the volunteers on 19 October 1950 to the armistice on 27 July 1953, how many days?
- ChallengeError clinic: the claim that the United States and Japan both established ties with China in the same month of 1972. How many days separate the Shanghai Communique (28 February 1972) from Sino-Japanese relations (29 September 1972)?
- Error redoError clinic: the claim that industry stopped and the economy did not grow at all during the Cultural Revolution. What does this miss?
03 Answers and one-line notes
| # | Answer | One-line note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | about 915 days, roughly two and a half years | Foundation and land reform belong to different stages: the law came only in 1950 and completion waited until late 1952. |
| 2 | 1825 days, that is 5.0 years | The First Plan covered the five years 1953 to 1957, and the Second was drafted only after 1957 overfulfilled it. |
| 3 | about 116 days apart, both within the same year | The Leap was set in May 1958 and the commune resolution in August, so the two campaigns overlapped in one summer and compounded each other. |
| 4 | 3796 days, that is 10.4 years, not a round ten | The decade label is shorthand; the real span exceeds ten years, and day counts expose the rounding. |
| 5 | 974 days to the hydrogen bomb; 2016 days to the satellite | The three milestones span six years, showing very different technical thresholds. |
| 6 | about 387 days, more than a year | What began as rectification turned into a campaign that ran into 1958 and shaped cadres and intellectual policy for years. |
| 7 | 4210 days, about 11.5 years | The suspension covered the whole Cultural Revolution, with recommended worker-peasant-soldier students replacing examinations until the winter of 1977. |
| 8 | 1012 days, about three years | The war ran nearly three years through five campaigns, trench warfare and talks; an armistice is not a peace treaty. |
| 9 | 214 days apart | With Washington, 1972 brought only a communique and formal ties waited until 1979, while Tokyo established relations in September 1972. |
| 10 | it misses growth with sharp swings: output fell in 1967-68, yet the Third Front and local industry expanded in the 1970s | Look at sectors and years rather than one aggregate; no growth and growth with swings are different findings. |
04 What to do after marking
- After marking, redo only the wrong items and write down which step went wrong (formula, unit, or misread number).
- Repeat the same item two days later; move to the next paper only when both attempts are correct.
- Parents only need the answer and note columns; there is no need to explain every item.
Errors thrive on vagueness; compute the days and the sense of time becomes precise.Tutor Registration →
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