JC 2013 History Papers Wed. June 12th, 2013 - OL and HL

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History OL & HL
Wednesday June 12th 2013

All discussion and questions about the History papers goes here, following the exam.

Please keep off-topic chat elsewhere.

Good luck all.

cfc.forever

Gonna study for this

DublinArnie

Just finished HISTORY! I finished 30minutes early... I know that doesn't sound good if i'm going for an A, but I had a panic attack at the start:o
My opinions:

-The short questions were slightly more "complex/techniqical" if you know what I mean, you had to write more and have a wider knowledge on the 2nd year course (yes, i'm looking at you American revolution!). I've managed to get at least 10 right for sure.

-The documents were very easy, except I couldn't answer the "Mention two terms of the Anglo-Irish treaty 1921?" question because my teacher didn't bother covering Irish history in 20th century. However, I wrote "Ireland to be a republic state" and "Ireland to have its own parlament". Are they right?

-The people in history were amazing, my teacher's predictions came true! I've managed to write 2 pages for each People in History.

-The sources were dodgy in my opinion. But I think I've got full marks in it as I've answered everything and mentioned the facts. Good thing the plantations came up!

-Now, here is where the panicing started. ANCIENT CIV OUTSIDE IRELAND CAME UP for Q6 A!!! £@#% SAKE! I wrote about the Romans ... I still remembered everything. I flew pass the housing paragraph but burial was a bit tricky, eitherwise, i'm managed to write 6-8 real facts for each . I almost cried though .

The international relations was amazing! I've wrote loads of pages filled with sweet facts that get to the point , aced that one!

-The pictures section was easy, no hassle .

Overall, it was a nice paper, probably the best paper in the last three years. I've had a panic attack at the start, i've straight away looked at section 6 A to see if reformation or reniassance came up, but my heart skipped five beats because it was something I didn't prepare! :mad: I worried that I wouldn't finish in time because I had to remember everything about the Romans, so I quickly wrote in symbol writing and finished the exam 30mins early. I had one page on the exam booklet left ...

I hope you boardsies did good! I'm reliefed that I can now forget everything i've learnt in the past three years as it's a 50/50 for me doing history in the leaving . TIME FOR A BREAK!

Jijsaw

LUTHER AND COLUMBUS CAME UP, WAYYYYYYY!
Overall a lovely paper Hoping for an A

juniorcert

Loved that paper so much! I had done Luther and Columbus for the pres and got full marks, so over the moon when they came up For q.6 I did C political developments and D international developments, loved them So much easier than I was expecting, thank God

Jijsaw

juniorcert wrote: »

Loved that paper so much! I had done Luther and Columbus for the pres and got full marks, so over the moon when they came up For q.6 I did C political developments and D international developments, loved them So much easier than I was expecting, thank God

I did three from q.6 because I had an extra 40 minutes and it I'd have to walk home and it was pouring down with rain :P I did Romans, Changes since 1945 (or whatever) and International Developments a.k.a the world war 2 chapter :P
And the short questions were strange, I think, you had to think about them more but I'm about 98% sure I got 10+ right

juniorcert

Jijsaw wrote: »

I did three from q.6 because I had an extra 40 minutes and it I'd have to walk home and it was pouring down with rain :P I did Romans, Changes since 1945 (or whatever) and International Developments a.k.a the world war 2 chapter :P
And the short questions were strange, I think, you had to think about them more but I'm about 98% sure I got 10+ right

Ya it started lashing towards the end for us too but I didn't have time or motivation to do another long q so I just sat there, haha. And ya the short q were a bit weird alright, not like the usual ones but I definitely got 10 right

DublinArnie

It wasn't raining here during the exam!

greenpyjamas

Think I developed proper wrestling biceps on my right arm from that exam...

OisinLAD

DublinArnie wrote: »

Just finished HISTORY! I finished 30minutes early... I know that doesn't sound good if i'm going for an A, but I had a panic attack at the start:o
My opinions:

-The short questions were slightly more "complex/techniqical" if you know what I mean, you had to write more and have a wider knowledge on the 2nd year course (yes, i'm looking at you American revolution!). I've managed to get at least 10 right for sure.

-The documents were very easy, except I couldn't answer the "Mention two terms of the Anglo-Irish treaty 1921?" question because my teacher didn't bother covering Irish history in 20th century. However, I wrote "Ireland to be a republic state" and "Ireland to have its own parlament". Are they right?

-The people in history were amazing, my teacher's predictions came true! I've managed to write 2 pages for each People in History.

-The sources were dodgy in my opinion. But I think I've got full marks in it as I've answered everything and mentioned the facts. Good thing the plantations came up!

-Now, here is where the panicing started. ANCIENT CIV OUTSIDE IRELAND CAME UP for Q6 A!!! £@#% SAKE! I wrote about the Romans ... I still remembered everything. I flew pass the housing paragraph but burial was a bit tricky, eitherwise, i'm managed to write 6-8 real facts for each . I almost cried though .

The international relations was amazing! I've wrote loads of pages filled with sweet facts that get to the point , aced that one!

-The pictures section was easy, no hassle .

Overall, it was a nice paper, probably the best paper in the last three years. I've had a panic attack at the start, i've straight away looked at section 6 A to see if reformation or reniassance came up, but my heart skipped five beats because it was something I didn't prepare! :mad: I worried that I wouldn't finish in time because I had to remember everything about the Romans, so I quickly wrote in symbol writing and finished the exam 30mins early. I had one page on the exam booklet left ...

I hope you boardsies did good! I'm reliefed that I can now forget everything i've learnt in the past three years as it's a 50/50 for me doing history in the leaving . TIME FOR A BREAK!

I love you so much for putting up those predictions last night, you probably got me an A :O

DublinArnie

OisinLAD wrote: »

I love you so much for putting up those predictions last night, you probably got me an A :O

Good!

Jijsaw

OisinLAD wrote: »

I love you so much for putting up those predictions last night, you probably got me an A :O

SHIFT! :P

SuperMattDude

amazing paper thanks to whoever it was that put up all those predictions hopefully i got an a

OisinLAD

Jijsaw wrote: »

SHIFT! :P

Already have..

:L if you guys see the papers up let me know

Cr4pSnip3r

That was easy. I'm starting to think the SEC likes us.

claryfray

I just want to say thank you SEC for such a nice paper!!

I wasn't banking on doing Irish history on Q6 (although I wanted to) because my teacher didn't cover the whole section with us, and in the end I couldn't do it because we hadn't covered The Shannon Scheme or Mother and Child Scheme and I although I did look up the accounts, didn't know them well enough. Did 6A and 6D which were pretty easy, although some of the short Q'S in 6A I wasn't sure of..?

We also didn't do anything from Jack Lynch's period but the Q was only a 2 marker so thats fine.

In the mocks I got 80%, and I did much better today so I am hoping for an A..!

Jijsaw

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

That was easy. I'm starting to think the SEC likes us.

Or their tricking us and we'll all get NG's :O

DublinArnie

claryfray wrote: »

I just want to say thank you SEC for such a nice paper!!

I wasn't banking on doing Irish history on Q6 (although I wanted to) because my teacher didn't cover the whole section with us, and in the end I couldn't do it because we hadn't covered The Shannon Scheme or Mother and Child Scheme and I although I did look up the accounts, didn't know them well enough. Did 6A and 6D which were pretty easy, although some of the short Q'S in 6A I wasn't sure of..?

We also didn't do anything from Jack Lynch's period but the Q was only a 2 marker so thats fine.

In the mocks I got 80%, and I did much better today so I am hoping for an A..!

What civ did you do for Q 6 A?

claryfray

DublinArnie wrote: »

What civ did you do for Q 6 A?

Ancient Rome

Cr4pSnip3r

Jijsaw wrote: »

Or their tricking us and we'll all get NG's :O

Man, that'd be a bummer.

Cr4pSnip3r

claryfray wrote: »

Ancient Rome

Same here.

Jijsaw

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

Same here.

+3

DublinArnie

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

Same here.

If you did burial, what did you write? XD

greenpyjamas

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

Same here.

I wrote down the Roman Empire, would it be accepted as Ancient Rome?

DublinArnie

What did you people write down for ii) burial? If you did the Romans .

Cr4pSnip3r

DublinArnie wrote: »

If you did burial, what did you write? XD

I didn't do burial.

And, @green: Of course, there was only the one Roman Empire, anyway.

claryfray

greenpyjamas wrote: »

I wrote down the Roman Empire, would it be accepted as Ancient Rome?

I would expect so..:)

OisinLAD

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

Same here.

We studied Ancient Greece in school, and I thought that I couldn't pick Q6 (a) because the first question was like name a leader/ruler and greece was a democracy But apparently I could have and It was only 2 marks Instead I did Q6 (c) and my account and the mother and child thing was terrible

Hoping I get the A from everything else :L I'd hate to have gotten an A in the Mock and then drop to a B

Cr4pSnip3r

OisinLAD wrote: »

We studied Ancient Greece in school, and I thought that I couldn't pick Q6 (a) because the first question was like name a leader/ruler and greece was a democracy But apparently I could have and It was only 2 marks Instead I did Q6 (c) and my account and the mother and child thing was terrible

Hoping I get the A from everything else :L I'd hate to have gotten an A in the Mock and then drop to a B

I said Julius Caesar for mah Rome :L

I did Q6 (c), easiest thing ever. Couldn't have asked for better.

claryfray

I did Housing and Family Life. For housing I wrote about the domus, villa and insulae. I THINK I got 8 SRS...hopefully :P For Family Life I wrote about the father's role and mothers role in the family, the education of the children, what they wore, what they ate and I said they went to the baths every day :P I got a load of facts down here but I am not sure how many are going to be taken as 'significant' to family life...I mean its a pretty broad heading..:L

OisinLAD

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

I said Julius Caesar for mah Rome :L

I did Q6 (c), easiest thing ever. Couldn't have asked for better.

Yeah well for me it was graaand until the mother and child scheme