History - Higher Level

Jello

How'd it go for you?

I thought it was quite long and it looked hard at first but wasn't so bad in the end.

BMH

Easy enough, could have used an extra 5 minutes to look over my paper though.

Jello

Oops other thread, forgot...merge whatever sorry.

ANarcho-Munk

I compeltly fluffed it. I'll partly blame myself but our teacher didn't have us prepared at all, we didn't even finish the course so I was delighted to see 20th Century relations come up :rolleyes: and pretty much everything else that I didn't study came up. i blanked for the revolutioanry leader part and just made up some stuff about George Washington.

Overall, I done shite

greg678

Really well..........thank god


Didnt think it was that hard

Slippin Jimmy

Jello wrote:

How'd it go for you?

I thought it was quite long and it looked hard at first but wasn't so bad in the end.

It was ok I suppose. Very boaring stuff though, but I beat my way through it. Short questions were grand. The pictures were horrible, the was hardly any if any question on the picture given:mad:. Ehh.... Documents were grand. Essay got caught a bit on, but still got through them, complete waffle:rolleyes: . I was wrecked at the end of it, had it done with bout 50 mins to spare. I suppose it was easy enough overall, considering I didn't study much for it.

Jello

Yeah I didn't know what the hell they were on about for that round twoer thing.
My essay on some guy from Boston who supported Washington was crap...hardly had any factual information. I did the other one on an ancient civilisation - Ancient Rome.
Also I hadn't a clue about any dates on what happened for anything.

disney

It wasnt too bad I suppose!
Hu was the guy in the pic from Ireland.
We never done any Irish history.
Done for q4 Christopher Colombus and Fidel Castro. In q6 done mussolini and social changes.

Jello

disney wrote:

It wasnt too bad I suppose!
Hu was the guy in the pic from Ireland.
We never done any Irish history.
Done for q4 Christopher Colombus and Fidel Castro. In q6 done mussolini and social changes.

Michael Collins.

disney

Thanx You rock Jello, I guess this means "eanie meanie miney mo" actulally works, Why was he killed and waht did he during the struggle for independance, as a matter of interest purely!!!!! :rolleyes:

ANarcho-Munk

For being pro-treaty as far as I remember..

He was nominated to over to Britain to sort out the treaty as well.

disney

Maybe I'm wrong after all... "enie meanie miney mo!" mightnt work.

Ah well we we can always close our eyes to the whole thing!!!!!!:rolleyes:

1huge1

Jello wrote:

Yeah I didn't know what the hell they were on about for that round twoer thing.
My essay on some guy from Boston who supported Washington was crap...hardly had any factual information. I did the other one on an ancient civilisation - Ancient Rome.
Also I hadn't a clue about any dates on what happened for anything.

why didny you just wirte about george washington obviousley he supported the revolution

Jello

Because the question was write about someone who supported a named leader during the Revolution, not a named leader who supported the Revolution.

Twinkle-star15

I was so pissed off because I studied everything I was bad at, which is early history, and completely ignored modern history. I just had to forget that mordern history is the guaranteed question. *slaps forehead* Luckily, I remembered most of it, even if my answers were rather short.

deise_boi

i keep hearing complaints from people about the fact that the people in history was all about "supporters" of named people. All you have to do is think.. Right George Washinton spent the Winter in Valley Forge in 1777. Then write down something along the lines of, "1777 was a bad year, we suffered the freezing cold with very little food in Valley Forge. I remember Washington staying with us, trying to boost our low morale... etc". You have to make the questions suit yourself.

yourpetzombie

Ugh. I don't know if I got my A, and it was the only A I really wanted. I didn't know my revolutions and I ended up having to write on the Agri. Rev. in the people in history. And we never did the Famine, so I ****ed my way through the last question in 5.

I did
People In History - Ferdinand Magellan and the Agri. Rev. farm worker.
Question Six - Middle Ages and Irish History.

Nanaki

Jello wrote:

Michael Collins.

haha one girl in my year said de Valera.
.....another said Mussolini :eek: ....I sh|t you not

Piste

Before hand we got the sources and were talking about them and I said that Collins (though I didn't know he was Collins) looked like a Nazi, and then a girl said it was Michael Collins. She got me full marks for that question

kwiva-g

Nanaki wrote:

haha one girl in my year said de Valera.
.....another said Mussolini :eek: ....I sh|t you not

I hadn't a clue who the hell that was!!! I said Eoin MacNeill I think!! It was a complete guess, I didn't study that section of the course at all. It was fun trying to make up reasons why he was killed though, and how he contributed to the war. I knew that I had gotten it wrong so I just made up something out of nowhere.:rolleyes:

Piste

I wanted to take the piss in the paper so much, you've no idea how hard it was not to write about Stormtroopers when the Nazi Document came up.

ANarcho-Munk

I really felt taking the piss out of George Washington saying he invented the washing machine but alas I held back as I knew I was hard pushed for marks anyway.

yourpetzombie

^ Hahahah! I love you forever just for that!

My obsession with 1916, the Civil War, etc. was certainly a help for that document question.

stargirl

yourpetzombie wrote:

Ugh. I don't know if I got my A, and it was the only A I really wanted. I didn't know my revolutions and I ended up having to write on the Agri. Rev. in the people in history. And we never did the Famine, so I ****ed my way through the last question in 5.

I did
People In History - Ferdinand Magellan and the Agri. Rev. farm worker.
Question Six - Middle Ages and Irish History.

you did ferdinand magellan? but it was a person working on a ship during the age of exploration wasn't it?

the clansman

i was expecting a lot on the easter rising...90 year aniversery and all

people in history section i was dreading but it suited me well i used questions i had done before

BMH

You have to keep in mind though, that it was last September they set the exams, when there wasn't any mention of the 1916 commemorations.

Piste

ANarcho-Munk wrote:

I really felt taking the piss out of George Washington saying he invented the washing machine but alas I held back as I knew I was hard pushed for marks anyway.

For the short question "what effect did that norman's have on Ireland?" by answer was "they built norman castles and brough EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS OF OPPRESSION!"

yourpetzombie

stargirl wrote:

you did ferdinand magellan? but it was a person working on a ship during the age of exploration wasn't it?

Yes it was, that's why I did a sailor on his ship...

ANarcho-Munk

**** **** ****!!!!!

I messed up my essays, our teacher is ****e and we've never done any of those essays before so I just wrote everything I kenw about Columbus

ahhhrgh!!

Jeebus

stargirl wrote:

you did ferdinand magellan? but it was a person working on a ship during the age of exploration wasn't it?

I'm afraid it wasnt. It was "Write an essay about one of the following people - A named Leader during a voyage of exploration"

Jello

Jeebus wrote:

I'm afraid it wasnt. It was "Write an essay about one of the following people - A named Leader during a voyage of exploration"

Nope, it was someone on a named explorer's voyage.

Jeebus

Jello wrote:

Nope, it was someone on a named explorer's voyage.

...****.


Thats my A gone


Edit -- Although, technically, Christopher Colombus was a sailor during his own voyage.....How many marks do you think I'll be docked ?

disney

Question 4 is it!? If so actually it was
"A sailor on a voyage of discovery during the age of exploration"

Check examinations.ie if ya dont believe me!;)

Fitzo

disney wrote:

Question 4 is it!? If so actually it was
"A sailor on a voyage of discovery during the age of exploration"

Check examinations.ie if ya dont believe me!;)

phew!

Jeebus

disney wrote:

Question 4 is it!? If so actually it was
"A sailor on a voyage of discovery during the age of exploration"

Check examinations.ie if ya dont believe me!;)

Thanks for that.

Chrissy Boyo was a sailor on a voyage of discovery, its kinda open to interpretation. I doubt(hope!) I cant be docked more than 3 marks. Although due to my supreme lack of knowledge about him I may be docked even more. :mad:

Killaqueen!!!

We hadn't finished half the course and I didn't study AT ALL for it, so thats my excuse for doing so ****e. I thought I was alright at history but it seems not..I usually get all the short questions right but I hadnt a clue for those ones! The people in history questions were hard and question 6, as always was difficult. I even did bad in the pictures question

jefreywithonef

See in the 'account of the Civil War' question, if you waffle on about the causes and results of it, would you still get some marks? The only thing I wrote about that occured during the CW was the shelling of the Four Courts and (I think/hope) the Munster Republic. Other than that I explained how the pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty sides came about and how Ireland lost many 'brave and able' leaders such as Griffith, Collins and Liam Lynch...

disney

Was it Aurthur Griffith that founded Sinn Fein, and what bout the Uniniost party person!!!?? :rolleyes:

Jello

Yeah it was Arthur Griffith...didn't know the Unionist guy, i said Ian Paisely.

disney

Jello wrote:

Yeah it was Arthur Griffith...didn't know the Unionist guy, i said Ian Paisely.

Me too!
We can be stupid together!!!!:rolleyes:
Thanxx:D

the clansman

paisley did found the d.u.p

Jello

Woo!

Or was it the UUP they asked........?

ANarcho-Munk

yourpetzombie wrote:

^ Hahahah! I love you forever just for that!

My involvement in the IRA was certainly a help for that document question.

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Piste

...There was a document question on the 'ra?

BMH

That's the bit you're surpised at? =/

yourpetzombie

ANarcho-Munk wrote:

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Cheeky!

ANarcho-Munk

Piste

BMH wrote:

That's the bit you're surpised at? =/

Well a random person's involvement (or lack thereof) in the ira means less to me than me not knowing what was on the History Paper.