History Answers

Cakes.

My History teacher never went through answering questions with us. He didn't even do the full course with us :rolleyes:

So, How do you answer your essay questions ? I actually have no clue how to do them. I got 70 in the Mocks but I know I didn't do the people in History questions right.

How do you do the people in history questions ? Do you pretend you are the person or write about them in the present tense or the past tense ?

Please Help :pac:

Bruckey2345

It depends on what the question is so some questions require you to write in first person and other questions as if you are them. In you essay try to write 1 good point per mark available and then you should get top marks but sometimes you might run out of info or time so try at least reach 15 points about the person. hope this helps

fabulousdiva

Cakesofrice wrote: »

My History teacher never went through answering questions with us. He didn't even do the full course with us :rolleyes:

So, How do you answer your essay questions ? I actually have no clue how to do them. I got 70 in the Mocks but I know I didn't do the people in History questions right.

How do you do the people in history questions ? Do you pretend you are the person or write about them in the present tense or the past tense ?

Please Help :pac:

What history book do you have?? in some books theres "people in history" and just learn it off! i got 40/40 in mine for mocks by writing a full A4
page and a 1/2

Desire.

Our teacher is also a complete retard! We didn't finish the course either. :P

For People in History questions, I would write about a page. That's what I did in my Pres and I got full marks. You should write in the first person, unless you are asked for a named person.

For example, a named reformer, you you would write about Martin Luther. But for a person from ancient Ireland, you would write it in the first person.

And always write in the past tense, it is much easier.

Cakes.

Thanks, I think I know what to do now :P

shadowninty

My teachers the man
Covered entire course easily
My first yr teacher was an idiot tho

Slow Show

Bruckey2345 wrote: »

It depends on what the question is so some questions require you to write in first person and other questions as if you are them. In you essay try to write 1 good point per mark available and then you should get top marks but sometimes you might run out of info or time so try at least reach 15 points about the person. hope this helps

Sorry, but that's not true. It's not some well-hidden secret lads, the marking scheme for history is available. For people in History essays, you get marked out of 16 for your points. For a relevant point, you get 2 SRS marks, so for example if you include 8 relevant points, you've got your full 16 marks. Some points may only be worth 1 SRS mark though, so it would be wise to include ten or so if you can. After the first 16 marks, you're awarded OM marks - these are marks awarded on the account as a whole. If your account is very good, you get 4 marks, and that's 20 marks. Good = 3, Fair =2 and Poor=1. You actually don't have to write a lot for People In History questions, in fairness you'd probably need around a page to include each point, but it's not essential once you have them all there.

If anyone wants to see the marking scheme, this is last year's:
http://examinations.ie/archive/markingschemes/2010/JC004ALP000EV.pdf

Hope I helped.

spurious

Slow Show wrote: »

Sorry, but that's not true. It's not some well-hidden secret lads, the marking scheme for history is available. For people in History essays, you get marked out of 16 for your points. For a relevant point, you get 2 SRS marks, so for example if you include 8 relevant points, you've got your full 16 marks. Some points may only be worth 1 SRS mark though, so it would be wise to include ten or so if you can. After the first 16 marks, you're awarded OM marks - these are marks awarded on the account as a whole. If your account is very good, you get 4 marks, and that's 20 marks. Good = 3, Fair =2 and Poor=1. You actually don't have to write a lot for People In History questions, in fairness you'd probably need around a page to include each point, but it's not essential once you have them all there.

If anyone wants to see the marking scheme, this is last year's:
http://examinations.ie/archive/markingschemes/2010/JC004ALP000EV.pdf

Hope I helped.

This.
Most HL JC History candidates write WAY too much.

Conran

unfortunately they do which damages other sections of the exam. Also the structure for the essays can be used when answering accounts also just incase some readers didnt know but the exception is that there is no OM so 10-12 marks is equal to about 6-7 SRS's in my own opinion

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There are OM's for accounts, actually, just less than for People in History.