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History (HL) - The Aftermath
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not bakunin wrote: »yeah.....exactly. i don't think many examiners will look favourably on this at all. if you wanted to do an essay on collaboration/resistance, it would have been a good idea to base it around the actual chapter on that in the book. irrelevant points in history severly knock that 60mark segment of your essay. i amn't sure how you could have worked the church collaborating in at all during the war. i mean the reichskirche was hitlers brainchild, so you can hardly say that. catholics did take in jews to hide, but sure that was loads of people in society. maximillian colbert perhaps....an hardly even a paragraph could be extracted from that guy. err.....i think the guy who did this made an unwise, hasty move......
as for me, i was a bit thrown originally by the unexpected questions. damn, no progression of the war or rise of sinn fein or political instability in the 1980's....or anything really. then i settled in and did quite well really. 20 pages. i felt dizzy afterwards.
-De Valera anglo-irish or economy
-economic and social challenges in britain 1920-45 (sickened that it went 6 years more than it should have.....maybe itll be marked easier)
-how membership of the UN and EEC affected the republic.
woooooo
You did Govt, Society and Economy too? *high five*
I did the Whitaker/Lemass question...niiice.
Apparently it's pretty uncommon. Can't figure out why, it's only about one tenth of the size of Sovereignty and Partition
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Did was the strike and lockout a success for Unions or whatever. North and South cultural identity which turned out to be alot easier then i thought and thank fup for technology in warfare all those years of watching the History channel paid off.....i know too much abouts guns and vehicles
Overall a bit of a shocking paper if you were unprepared for it (certainly if you went by the predictions) required alot of course work knowledge for once.0 -
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You did Govt, Society and Economy too? *high five*
I did the Whitaker/Lemass question...niiice.
Apparently it's pretty uncommon. Can't figure out why, it's only about one tenth of the size of Sovereignty and Partition
ha, yeah, go lemass, haughey and all the kids! i actually like this section, it was pretty interesting. is there a book for it though? we didnt use one at all, just a load of notes from our teacher and bits of "ireland since the famine"....that epic f ucking tome. well, ive never met anyone else that did this section, so good luck!0 -
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not bakunin wrote: »ha, yeah, go lemass, haughey and all the kids! i actually like this section, it was pretty interesting. is there a book for it though? we didnt use one at all, just a load of notes from our teacher and bits of "ireland since the famine"....that epic f ucking tome. well, ive never met anyone else that did this section, so good luck!
It's actually dealt with in a book called "Modern Ireland"...has two other Irish sections in it too, but we didn't use it in class. We just got loads of notes too.
Yeah, I thought it was really interesting. I'll miss it...well no, but it wasn't too bad.:pac: Was hoping for Anglo Irish Relations but the question I did was nice too. Good luck to you too 0 -
Okay I think I did fine on the Bus Boycott (Thank God it was that and not bloody Astronauts) but I messed up everything else
I really wanted CnaG/FF Economic/Social Policy Comparison....I guess I could have covered FF under the de Valera question but I knew C na G that bit better...I did the Treaty which I thought I knew well enough but I just screwed up completely, focused on the wrong stuff and forgot to have paragraphs till too late and didn't have many dates and went back and forth in time.....I really wanted Church/State relations and nothing there was good for me on Europe at all. I did Propaganda but that was terrible too and I only wrote one bloody paragraph on the Apprentice Boys because I was running out of time and I didn't know it that well even though our teacher kept telling us to go over it.....GAH!!!!!
I hope to God the Project + Montgomery + plus whatever coherent stuff I wrote elsewhere is all good enough to pass. I knew I'd screw up, I'm a terribly unfocused kind of person and I didn't have enough backups.....:(
Made my bed. Sigh.0 -
I'm an A student when it comes to History. The worst grade I've ever gotton is a B. But that went awful....
Document question was fine. Didn't write very much on question 4 but what I did write was decent.
Completely blanked on the older Irish topic so I skipped it and didn't have time to do it in the end The only thing I could've attempted was the Strike and Lockout but even if I had time I couldn't remember for the life of me why they were striking (I know - how stupid) and couldn't think of anything to write about past the first week of striking during Horse Show week.
The other topic was ok - I did the one on de Valera - couldn't remember any dates or facts so I definitely didn't do things chronologically. Only wrote half a page on deV's Anglo-Irish relations, the rest was economy. I said he managed Anglo-Irish relations better but actually not sure if that's what they're looking for because he only managed Anglo-Irish relations well from an Irish, nationalist point of view...?
Dictatorship and democracy was awful. I was certain Church State relations, anglo-american pop culture or anti semitism would come up. Neither of them did. I did the propaganda/terror question but I get put off with general questions. So I had no idea how to structure it. Started waffling and saying the usual stuff to do with Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin - couldn't think of any specifics so just said general stuff about propaganda and labour/concentration camps.
It really upset me because although I think I did worse in english and maths, this is something I'm supposed to be good at. And I worked it out and the most I can get in theory is 80%. I think I got 50% taking into account my special topic. It's not fair this is the one subject I studied for well...what a waste. 0 -
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GTFO? That's a disgrace if true. I suspect you jest?Johner Feeney wrote: »yea...history was good our superintendent nice dev question.... gave us an extra 35 minutes so it was nice
Don't worry about it. I was ready for an A in English and I paniced in the easiest paper 2 I've ever sat and will probably get a C or B! It was a tough history paper, I had the same essays as you prepared. You probably did better than you thought!Killaqueen!!! wrote: »I'm an A student when it comes to History. The worst grade I've ever gotton is a B. But that went awful....
Document question was fine. Didn't write very much on question 4 but what I did write was decent.
Completely blanked on the older Irish topic so I skipped it and didn't have time to do it in the end The only thing I could've attempted was the Strike and Lockout but even if I had time I couldn't remember for the life of me why they were striking (I know - how stupid) and couldn't think of anything to write about past the first week of striking during Horse Show week.
The other topic was ok - I did the one on de Valera - couldn't remember any dates or facts so I definitely didn't do things chronologically. Only wrote half a page on deV's Anglo-Irish relations, the rest was economy. I said he managed Anglo-Irish relations better but actually not sure if that's what they're looking for because he only managed Anglo-Irish relations well from an Irish, nationalist point of view...?
Dictatorship and democracy was awful. I was certain Church State relations, anglo-american pop culture or anti semitism would come up. Neither of them did. I did the propaganda/terror question but I get put off with general questions. So I had no idea how to structure it. Started waffling and saying the usual stuff to do with Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin - couldn't think of any specifics so just said general stuff about propaganda and labour/concentration camps.
It really upset me because although I think I did worse in english and maths, this is something I'm supposed to be good at. And I worked it out and the most I can get in theory is 80%. I think I got 50% taking into account my special topic. It's not fair this is the one subject I studied for well...what a waste. 0 -
Killaqueen!!! wrote: »I'm an A student when it comes to History. The worst grade I've ever gotton is a B. But that went awful....
Document question was fine. Didn't write very much on question 4 but what I did write was decent.
Completely blanked on the older Irish topic so I skipped it and didn't have time to do it in the end The only thing I could've attempted was the Strike and Lockout but even if I had time I couldn't remember for the life of me why they were striking (I know - how stupid) and couldn't think of anything to write about past the first week of striking during Horse Show week.
The other topic was ok - I did the one on de Valera - couldn't remember any dates or facts so I definitely didn't do things chronologically. Only wrote half a page on deV's Anglo-Irish relations, the rest was economy. I said he managed Anglo-Irish relations better but actually not sure if that's what they're looking for because he only managed Anglo-Irish relations well from an Irish, nationalist point of view...?
Dictatorship and democracy was awful. I was certain Church State relations, anglo-american pop culture or anti semitism would come up. Neither of them did. I did the propaganda/terror question but I get put off with general questions. So I had no idea how to structure it. Started waffling and saying the usual stuff to do with Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin - couldn't think of any specifics so just said general stuff about propaganda and labour/concentration camps.
It really upset me because although I think I did worse in english and maths, this is something I'm supposed to be good at. And I worked it out and the most I can get in theory is 80%. I think I got 50% taking into account my special topic. It's not fair this is the one subject I studied for well...what a waste.
I feel much the same to be honest. I had gotten an A2 in the mock, and assumed my grade could only go up from there especially taking into account my Special Topic. However, that exam was extremely nasty and the questions were asked in a very awkward way. I now feel like the weeks I did of studying for History were completely in vain considering how badly that went for me. Hopefully I did enough to get some kind of C grade in it, but that is very unlikely. I'm just annoyed that my best subject going in to the Lc turned out to be my worst.
There goes my first 2 options on the CAO anyway...0 -
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markopantelic wrote: »u do know it doesnt work like dis? just because you did the report does not automatically mean 20%, I think only the best of the best get that, and the doc question has a 40 marker, and the hitler question will be judged very harshly.
The Doc question is worth 100 marks, not 40 Assuming you didn't just skip over the easy questions...
(It's worth 100 marks right, I didn't get THAT confused, right? Right?)
ETA: Yep, 100 Marks.0 -
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