People In History?

Bazinga_N

Just wondering if anyone knows where i could get sample people in history profiles online? In particular ''A young person growing up in ancient Greece'' Any help appreciated!!

If someone would also be willing to pass on any notes they have on this Iwould be ever so grateful!

cathalio11

Small bit of advice here. Seeing as the Junior Cert is what you're looking at now, there is a very very small chance that an ancient person living OUTSIDE Ireland will come up.

Preparing for the People in History, I would advise that you study for part 1:

Ancient person IN Ireland
Archaeologist

Part 2:

Coalminer
Revolutionary

To be sure, I would do maybe 2 extra ones that can come up in each.

Source: Very easy to narrow down what will come up. Personally, I'd be shocked if Ancient Person in Ireland and the Coalminer didn't come up. But if that was the case, the others are insurance!
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To find these, it would be a great bet just to summarise these from your textbook or revision book. You need 8 SRSs so getting 10 in each one would be safe!

spurious

I wouldn't bank on any predictions coming up, or base any on previous years.
Study each section so that you are covered for anything that could come up.

Remember, the SEC are well aware that some people see their papers as being too predictable.

Bazinga_N

I'd have to agree with Spurious on Predictions.. I'm staying clear from them.. I hate rote learning (Irish being the exception).. I prefer to get creative or understand something... I was just looking for the example person in history for ancient greece as sort of a guide.. I'm just not a 100% sure what to put into it!! Thanks for all your help!

cathalio11

spurious wrote: »

I wouldn't bank on any predictions coming up, or base any on previous years.
Study each section so that you are covered for anything that could come up.

Remember, the SEC are well aware that some people see their papers as being too predictable.

I'm lucky I didn't listen to you then :pac:

Joking of course. I definitely know what you mean by that and my teachers told me the exact same but I was never willing to put hours into History to learn most of the course, when I could put hours into Maths etc.
History was actually the only subject where I could target 1/4 of the course and just learn that and get away with. So I would still advise people to take short-cuts if they're looking for a good grade in it, but need to improve elsewhere. Though it's obviously better to have the whole course under your belt.

But I do think it's very effective for your Junior Cert as a whole.

spurious

cathalio11 wrote: »

But I do think it's very effective for your Junior Cert as a whole.

I suppose it depends whether you see school being about getting an education or passing exams, but that's another day's debate.

cathalio11

cathalio11 wrote: »

But I do think it's very effective for your Junior Cert as a whole.

spurious wrote: »

I suppose it depends whether you see school being about getting an education or passing exams, but that's another day's debate.

Whoops, I think you may have understood that wrong as I didn't explain it too well.

By "Junior Cert as a whole", I don't mean predicting and limiting your study for every subject in the Junior Cert.
I meant the hours you can save on learning 6 People in Histories instead of 12 and the hours you could save by not studying the whole History course can be used to study for Maths and other subjects which could help your "Junior Cert as a whole".

Or maybe you saw it that way and I'm making a fool of myself

But it worked for me as such. I think I did 1 hour of History a week (limiting to my predictions) and I did 10-14 hours of Maths a week coming up to the Junior Cert.
So you could argue that I wanted the education in Maths, and just to pass the exam in History but as you said, for another day

hisbabygirl95

I got an A in honours history for the jc and the best thing is to write out points on the people. At least 12 valuable points with good points eg when asked about an Italian painter in the renaissance describe a style that painter perfected.

Junokevv

cathalio11 wrote: »

Small bit of advice here. Seeing as the Junior Cert is what you're looking at now, there is a very very small chance that an ancient person living OUTSIDE Ireland will come up.

Preparing for the People in History, I would advise that you study for part 1:

Ancient person IN Ireland
Archaeologist

Part 2:

Coalminer
Revolutionary

To be sure, I would do maybe 2 extra ones that can come up in each

Source: Very easy to narrow down what will come up. Personally, I'd be shocked if Ancient Person in Ireland and the Coalminer didn't come up. But if that was the case, the others are insurance!

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To find these, it would be a great bet just to summarise these from your textbook or revision book. You need 8 SRSs so getting 10 in each one would be safe!

That's not necessarily true at all.

An Ancient CivillIsation outside Ireland could easily come up.
We spent a good chunk of first year on the Romans so it's obviously quite important.

Also people in the Industrial Revolution are quite rare..

As for History as whole only worry about 1st and 2nd year people in histories and concentrate on trying to understand what generally is actually going on in the 3rd year chapters as this is what will help you do good accounts without much rote learning.

cathalio11

Junokevv wrote: »

That's not necessarily true at all.

An Ancient CivillIsation outside Ireland could easily come up.
We spent a good chunk of first year on the Romans so it's obviously quite important.

It has never come up twice in a row. Nor has Archaeologist or person IN Ireland and those 3 takes up Section 1's first option.

Obviously, they can very easily throw it in for the second year in a row in the People in History, but their aim isn't to completely throw off a lot of students. After all, you spend a lot of time on person IN Ireland too and it would be strange for it to be left out for the 4th year running.

Also, if it doesn't come up in People in History, it normally comes up elsewhere or has more focus in the short questions, so they don't completely omit it at all. The whole course is on the exam, I'm just speaking about the probability for this year's People in History.

Anyways, this is just an alternative to spend a lot less time on History and spend it on something like Maths. Of course, I see I'm getting the stereotype here that just because I'm taking short-cuts on one subject, that I'm just that type of bad attitude student. Teachers > Students attitude...

Junokevv wrote: »

Also people in the Industrial Revolution are quite rare..

Coalminer has come up every two years for a long time now, except it didn't come up last year as it came up on Q.5 instead. I'd bet a lot on it coming up this year!