***History Exam Wed***

DublinArnie

You people prepared? Started the cramming? Worried? What are you aiming for? I'm aiming for an A, I got 83% on mocks and I did a really bad mistake which costed me 12marks, so i'm confident an A is achieveable.

Happy cramming!

cfc.forever

I plan to start cramming over the weekend so many people in history accounts to learn.. the documents and short q's will be grand, I'm gonna make sure I know a good few people in history accounts off very well and I might even do some notes and post them here

jpr57852

In the last section, you have to do two of the four questions. For the first question, it's usually the Renaissance, Reformation, and a bunch of other things. Which chapters can come up? Is it exclusively syllabus II content? I'm worried because I'm relying on international relations and some other question. I've heard social change is a bad choice, and I'd rather read the bible than learn Irish history, so it's either social change or the first question.

Anybody have any tips/notes/advice?

Oh, and anyone know what might come up for the people in history questions this year?

ConorD21

Im guessing columbus and luther will come up , thats what im banking on anyways

cfc.forever

International releations :O would be my bet -cough

claryfray

I got 80% in the mocks but our teacher gave us hints to what was coming up so I knew exactly want to study
I really want to get an A in the JC though so I need to start studying really hard haha

LawdyLad

History is one subject that I am genuinely prepared for thank god. Hoping for an A as none of my exams so far have went well.

claryfray

I just posted a good few accounts here, if anyone is interested

Monaghan hardy lawd

Got 90% percent in the mocks, I should have got less cus i mixed up eoin o duffy with eoin mc neil! examiner didn't even notice

Junior cert1997

Got 94% in the mocks so I am hoping to get an a if all goes well

sotisme

Can anyone tell me what can come up on Q 6 (A) ?
I know there's a lot of stuff but I'm planning on answering this question and need to know what to study!

Thanks

multimate

2006 International relations: account - 12m
-Britain between the wars

What are you supposed to write about for this?

Monaghan hardy lawd

Can anyone tell me what can come up on Q 6 (A)

From the top...
you could be asked to write an account about...
Ireland's first settlers
The first farmers
The bronze age
A monk in early christian ireland
How celtic society is organised (ri, derbhine, warriors etc)
Live in celtic Irelend
Roman houses
Roman entertainment and leisure
Roman slaves
Roman food
Roman army
This is going to be a really long post isn't it
Roman burial and funeral stuff
Roman achievements (latin language)
The feudal system
Medieval castles
Lord and Lady of a castle
A Knight
Rreeaallllllllyy long post!
Medieval towns
medieval craftsmen (ie.stages of training)
Medieval monastery
Causes of renaissance
Changes in art during renaissance
painter from italy ie. da vinci
painter not from italy ie. Durer
the printing press
Galileo
Shakespeare
That is alot of material so i advise you to do Q6 C (political developments in ireland) and Q6 D (Political delevopments in europe).

DublinArnie

multimate wrote: »

2006 International relations: account - 12m
-Britain between the wars

What are you supposed to write about for this?

Write about The Battle Of Britain and D-Day. and maybe include some things like the B.O.M.B which was used to encrypt german enigima codes etc.

sotisme

Monaghan hardy lawd wrote: »

From the top...
you could be asked to write an account about...
Ireland's first settlers
The first farmers
The bronze age
A monk in early christian ireland
How celtic society is organised (ri, derbhine, warriors etc)
Live in celtic Irelend
Roman houses
Roman entertainment and leisure
Roman slaves
Roman food
Roman army
This is going to be a really long post isn't it
Roman burial and funeral stuff
Roman achievements (latin language)
The feudal system
Medieval castles
Lord and Lady of a castle
A Knight
Rreeaallllllllyy long post!
Medieval towns
medieval craftsmen (ie.stages of training)
Medieval monastery
Causes of renaissance
Changes in art during renaissance
painter from italy ie. da vinci
painter not from italy ie. Durer
the printing press
Galileo
Shakespeare
That is alot of material so i advise you to do Q6 C (political developments in ireland) and Q6 D (Political delevopments in europe).

Ok thanks so much! Haha I don't know one thing about Irish history so I'm gonna have to just hope a nice question comes up on 6 A! I'm doing Q6 D though

Thanks

cfc.forever

Guys I just noticed something on Q6 Social Changes in History POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND nearly always come up, gonna go get prepared :P History is more predictable than I thought.

greenpyjamas

Would love if reformer and artist came up in people in history! What are the chances though..:rolleyes:
Anyone doing History for LC? It was the only subject I knew I wanted to do when picking subjects, love it!

cfc.forever

Well I'm doing TY next year, but I do plan on dong it for the LC. I'm not doing it for points that too, but I love the subject in general

abcdefghijkl

Im guessing columbus and luther will come up , thats what im banking on anyways

Do you mean you think that an Explorer and a Reformer will come up? 'Cause they never ask for a specific person in the People in History section, as far as I know.

Jijsaw

greenpyjamas wrote: »

Would love if reformer and artist came up in people in history! What are the chances though..:rolleyes:
Anyone doing History for LC? It was the only subject I knew I wanted to do when picking subjects, love it!

Yep doing history for the LC. Love it, it's a great little subject Can't wait to do my history project *greedily rubs hands together*

greenpyjamas

Jijsaw wrote: »

Yep doing history for the LC. Love it, it's a great little subject Can't wait to do my history project *greedily rubs hands together*

Me too, I'm already trying to think of ideas for my project... I want to do something totally obscure :P

DublinArnie

greenpyjamas wrote: »

Would love if reformer and artist came up in people in history! What are the chances though..:rolleyes:
Anyone doing History for LC? It was the only subject I knew I wanted to do when picking subjects, love it!

Maybe, dunno yet.:pac:

greenpyjamas

DublinArnie wrote: »

Maybe, dunno yet.:pac:

Do it for the craic! We'll probably be complaining about the amount of essays we'll have to learn though :pac:

DublinArnie

greenpyjamas wrote: »

Do it for the craic! We'll probably be complaining about the amount of essays we'll have to learn though :pac:

Learning essays is easy . I have subject choices, I think I might have to ditch italian in school for history ...

Jijsaw

DublinArnie wrote: »

Maybe, dunno yet.:pac:

Have you not picked your subjects yet? :eek:

greenpyjamas

DublinArnie wrote: »

Learning essays is easy . I have subject choices, I think I might have to ditch italian in school for history ...

Depends whether you want to have an extra language or not I suppose:P

DublinArnie

Jijsaw wrote: »

Have you not picked your subjects yet? :eek:

I'm doing Ty so we don't get to pick yet. But the choices stay almost the same every year, and this year it was Italian, French or History. XD. Should I ditch Italian and do Russian/Japanese outside school? Hard choices ..

Jijsaw

DublinArnie wrote: »

I'm doing Ty so we don't get to pick yet. But the choices stay almost the same every year, and this year it was Italian, French or History. XD. Should I ditch Italian and do Russian/Japanese outside school? Hard choices ..

Oooh their hard languages especially having to learn a new alphabet is a b**** French is sort-of close to Italian (both romance languages) and I'm sure theres plenty of French grind teachers in your area of Dublin. Or you could learn over youtube videos, myself I watch French films, read Wikipedia articles in French and talk to my French pals :P

DublinArnie

Jijsaw wrote: »

Oooh their hard languages especially having to learn a new alphabet is a b**** French is sort-of close to Italian (both romance languages) and I'm sure theirs plenty of French grind teachers in your area of Dublin. Or you could learn over youtube videos, myself I watch French films, read Wikipedia articles in French and talk to my French pals :P

Io amo parlare l'italiano!
I love speaking Italian.

topbloke

I did well in the pre but realistically I knew what was coming up, I have no work ethic about the junior though so I'll cram on the morning as I don't do French. So yeah, we got this... thinking solid B

greenpyjamas

Slightly freaking out for this, even though I got 95% in the mocks I feel like I haven't covered enough WW2 stuff and Irish Politics from the 60's onwards

Cr4pSnip3r

greenpyjamas wrote: »

Slightly freaking out for this, even though I got 95% in the mocks I feel like I haven't covered enough WW2 stuff and Irish Politics from the 60's onwards

Me and you, on the same boat.

abcdefghijkl

I still need to revise WWII tonight. Hopefully I'll pick it up easily, as I've gone over it a couple of times before.

History is one of the worst exams for me. The information I learn comes out of my head as fast as it goes in. I have revised different history sections over the past couple of weeks, but I forget a lot of it at this stage. I find it difficult to keep all the people in history essays and various accounts in an organised structure inside my frantic little mind. It makes revision the day before the exam that bit harder, as I have no choice but to do a final rundown over the whole course to familiarize myself with everything again. Can't wait 'til the exam is over tomorrow.

MomijiHime

I got 79% in the mocks and so I am ****ting it. I really want to do well and do it for LC.

spurious

abcdefghijkl wrote: »

I still need to revise WWII tonight. Hopefully I'll pick it up easily, as I've gone over it a couple of times before.

History is one of the worst exams for me. The information I learn comes out of my head as fast as it goes in. I have revised different history sections over the past couple of weeks, but I forget a lot of it at this stage. I find it difficult to keep all the people in history essays and various accounts in an organised structure inside my frantic little mind. It makes revision the day before the exam that bit harder, as I have no choice but to do a final rundown over the whole course to familiarize myself with everything again. Can't wait 'til the exam is over tomorrow.

Don't worry about organised structure. Write down the facts that you know.

finisher489

This is what I think will come up

TWO OF THE 2011 PEOPLE IN HISTORY WILL COME UP TOMORROW EXCEPT JUST DON'T BOTHER WITH A NAMED LEADER IN A STRUGGLE FOR IRISH INDEPENDENCE FROM 2011 BUT THE OTHER 5 will come up(99% SURE)

An Irish plantation and its effect on religion, political control, language and custom / Conflict between European powers as a result of the voyages/ something from the 2008 Revolutionary movements question. FOR QUESTION 5

FOR SOCIAL CHANG, TRANSPORT/SPORT AND LEISURE/ WOMEN'S LIVES

OR COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION, HOUSING, RELIGION.

AND If a WW2 event comes up, It will be Operation Overlord or Operation Barbarossa and if not those then Battle of Britain.

And finally for the short answer questions on International Relations and Social Change that come up in QUESTION 6 learn off previous ones from 2008-2011. E.g. GIVE TWO REASONS TO ACCOUNT FOR GERMAN SUCCESS IN WW2 UP TO MAY 1940 OR EXPLAIN MAIGNOT LINE, VICHY FRANCE, THREE CHANGES IN AGRI LIFE SINCE 1930s.

If you learn off these patterns and they come up then you will definitely get an A. I myself didn't learn all of my Social Change predicted accounts or Q5 predictions becauseI just couldn't be bothered but if my predictions do come up, I'll be happy

DublinArnie

finisher489 wrote: »

This is what I think will come up

TWO OF THE 2011 PEOPLE IN HISTORY WILL COME UP TOMORROW EXCEPT JUST DON'T BOTHER WITH A NAMED LEADER IN A STRUGGLE FOR IRISH INDEPENDENCE FROM 2011 BUT THE OTHER 5 will come up(99% SURE)

An Irish plantation and its effect on religion, political control, language and custom / Conflict between European powers as a result of the voyages/ something from the 2008 Revolutionary movements question. FOR QUESTION 5

FOR SOCIAL CHANG, TRANSPORT/SPORT AND LEISURE/ WOMEN'S LIVES

OR COMMUNICATIONS, EDUCATION, HOUSING, RELIGION.

AND If a WW2 event comes up, It will be Operation Overlord or Operation Barbarossa and if not those then Battle of Britain.

And finally for the short answer questions on International Relations and Social Change that come up in QUESTION 6 learn off previous ones from 2008-2011. E.g. GIVE TWO REASONS TO ACCOUNT FOR GERMAN SUCCESS IN WW2 UP TO MAY 1940 OR EXPLAIN MAIGNOT LINE, VICHY FRANCE, THREE CHANGES IN AGRI LIFE SINCE 1930s.

If you learn off these patterns and they come up then you will definitely get an A. I myself didn't learn all of my Social Change predicted accounts or Q5 predictions becauseI just couldn't be bothered but if my predictions do come up, I'll be happy

How about Q6 A? I think reformation will be up for that one.

examstress

Can someone help me ! Im just aiming for a c/b ,what will I learn for q.4 onwards that will keep me covered thx !!!

abcdefghijkl

For People in History, learn a few important essays such as a reformer, an explorer, a monk, a Renaissance artist etc. The Q.5 documents often focus on causes/results, so learn those for the reformation, explorations, plantations, revolutions etc. For one of the Q.6's, go over WWII or Social Changes or Irish Politics (whatever you're best at), and hopefully your 1st and 2nd year stuff will cover you for the other question.

finisher489

DublinArnie wrote: »

How about Q6 A? I think reformation will be up for that one.

Personally, I think it is much easier doing Social Change because the accounts are easy to predict and the shorter questions for it on Q6 are pretty repetitive so you can get full marks on it by studying the 2008-2011 Social change short answer questions. don't learn off the 2012 ones though. And remember that if you can't answer them, check the marking schemes,they have everything for every short question on Q6

DublinArnie

finisher489 wrote: »

Personally, I think it is much easier doing Social Change because the accounts are easy to predict and the shorter questions for it on Q6 are pretty repetitive so you can get full marks on it by studying the 2008-2011 Social change short answer questions. don't learn off the 2012 ones though. And remember that if you can't answer them, check the marking schemes,they have everything for every short question on Q6

I hate social change in Ireland ... I hate Irish history ... that's why i'm not going to bother studying any of it besides the plantations .

spurious

DublinArnie wrote: »

I hate social change in Ireland ... I hate Irish history ... that's why i'm not going to bother studying any of it besides the plantations .

Unless you have properly studied social change, avoid it. It's always really badly answered as people think they can spoof.

From the Chief Examiner's report:

Despite its popularity, responses to the social change option were frequently
disappointing. Examiners noted some vagueness and repetition in many responses, as many candidates failed to demonstrate a grasp of
the concept of social change and merely gave a static picture of Irish society at some unspecified point in the twentieth century.

The average score was in the low grade C range (14.4 marks or 57.6%). Social change is integral to the syllabus and this type of question has appeared on previous papers.

cfc.forever

If you don't study it, you won't get an A :P

DublinArnie

cfc.forever wrote: »

If you don't study it, you won't get an A :P

I got 83% WITHOUT LOOKING AT IRISH HISTORY and even my TOP QUALITY history teacher said you can get an A without studying anything related to Ireland except neolithic and plantations.:cool:

DublinArnie

spurious wrote: »

Unless you have properly studied social change, avoid it. It's always really badly answered as people think they can spoof.

From the Chief Examiner's report:

Despite its popularity, responses to the social change option were frequently
disappointing. Examiners noted some vagueness and repetition in many responses, as many candidates failed to demonstrate a grasp of
the concept of social change and merely gave a static picture of Irish society at some unspecified point in the twentieth century.

The average score was in the low grade C range (14.4 marks or 57.6%). Social change is integral to the syllabus and this type of question has appeared on previous papers.

Thanks for proving my point, this is one of the reasons why I won't touch that section. People think you can waffle and it's common sense, but you need to know a lot more. Section A is all based on facts so much easier to score higher.

Cr4pSnip3r

List of all possible people in history questions? I think I saw one before, no idea where it has run off to.

DublinArnie

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

List of all possible people in history questions? I think I saw one before, no idea where it has run off to.

Go onto fisher's profile, latest posts, page two, and should be somewhere there :cool:.

Cr4pSnip3r

DublinArnie wrote: »

Go onto fisher's profile, latest posts, page two, and should be somewhere there :cool:.

You allergic to links or something? :P

DublinArnie

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

You allergic to links or something? :P

The effort of opening a new window, searching boards.ie ... and finding it. :pac:

cfc.forever

Link me plz!

abcdefghijkl

Time to start studying WWII... can't put it off any longer. Still have French to study.. :eek: