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[...]arguably more importantly, COMA lumps all of the analysis into one letter. Furthermore, the quality of extended responses also drastically increased as the students could reference more information from the image and connect it to historical knowledge from the topic. In our Year 12 cohort there was a huge increase in the number of students who could link multiple points of analysis to one visual element of a visual source and then connect these analyses to create more detailed and accurate responses. [...]it was only obvious if you knew absolutely everything about the topic portrayed in the source... ... the quality of extended responses also drastically increased as the students could reference more information from the image and connect it to historical knowledge from the topic. ... there was a huge increase in the number of students who could link multiple points of analysis to one visual element of a visual source and then connect these analyses to create more detailed and accurate responses.