***2015 LC HISTORY - Higher Level - June 10th***

TheSunderz

Thought that was easy enough I am so glad i revised the congress !!!

Anonymagician

HL.

Don't think we could've gotten a nicer paper.

BlueWolf16

Very nice paper, shame i only needed a couple more minutes to fully finish the document short q.. Oh well, thats only like 2-3% out anyways. Great questions, was a bit shocked no treaty, though still knew the eucha well.

Btw, RIP my hand.

eoinythegod

That exam was written for me by God himself. So happy

ko3p

Nice enough, only managed about a page on my last essay though
I just couldn't stop writing about Hitler.

DesuDesuChan

mind went blank for the Northern Ireland section and only wrote a page. feeling sad.

gracew

Really happy with that paper, everything I studied came up. Didn't have time to do the short essay on the Eucharistic congress but otherwise I'm very happy with it!

Chef Tony

When I got the paper I took a peak on the document question, and saw the word "Papal" and immediately entered a depression because The Treaty didn't come up. But then I saw how nice the other essays were and became delighted. Very happy with the paper over all, could of easily done two essays on each topic, was spoilt for choice! I only feel bad for the examiner having to read the waffle-fest that was "The Significance of The Eucharistic Congress"

2roadsdiverged

GAA question was kinda broad so only got two pages out of it because never actually considered it would come up with Sinn Fein and I kinda assumed that the literary revival would appear with it because of Yeats' 150th anniversary so only got about 2 and a half pages written about the GAA as it was so narrow, hopefully my other essays compensate for that and I didn't get the long question on the Congress finished either so idk. Hoped for history to be my highest for points as it always has been but doubting that now sadly 💔

TheSunderz

Guys what did people do for the Irish EEC essay ? I did fisheries and agriculture will that suffice ??Yeh happy with foreign policy so easy and Montgomery was phrased to nice.

Kermin

Really good exam Hitler, Cultural Nationalism and Colonialism+Naval Policy saved me.Only fully finished the hitler questions other two I get 4 and half and 3 half put a load of bullet points at the end and a conclusion on those essays with 5 mins to go. So got 5 pages and 4 pages on each in the end

blobcat

I'm really not sure if I wrote enough. I did two pages on Montgomery bus boycott, four pages on Stalin and two and a half pages on the NI question.

Kermin

2roadsdiverged wrote: »

GAA question was kinda broad so only got two pages out of it because never actually considered it would come up with Sinn Fein and I kinda assumed that the literary revival would appear with it because of Yeats' 150th anniversary so only got about 2 and a half pages written about the GAA as it was so narrow, hopefully my other essays compensate for that and I didn't get the long question on the Congress finished either so idk. Hoped for history to be my highest for points as it always has been but doubting that now sadly 💔

Same delighted with Gaa when I first saw it realised it was really broad and really specific at the same time. Still got 4 pages from it

gryfothegreat

Higher - Waffled for a page on the Eucharistic Congress, did a solid 4 pages on both Montgomery and Sunningdale, 3.5 on economic and social problems in Britain between wars - do you think I'll lose marks for not mentioning Jarrow?
But hey, I'm pretty happy overall!

Cr4pSnip3r

Ah, the Congress is my favourite of the three woot. Great paper, although I had to waffle a little bit about Paisley. Thank feck he's famous.

Anonymagician

HL. Thought having two inter war years problems questions was a bit strange but the Stalin question was great. Did 5 for the boycott, 4 for unionism and 4 for Stalin. So delighted!

Reading the US questions and don't even know what that American Dream question relates to.

Cr4pSnip3r

Anonymagician wrote: »

HL. Thought having two inter war years problems questions was a bit strange but the Stalin question was great. Did 5 for the boycott, 4 for unionism and 4 for Stalin. So delighted!

Reading the US questions and don't even know what that American Dream question relates to.

*copy and pastes Gatsby essay*

westernfrenzy

I done
US: Berlin and Cuba impact on US Foreign Policy
NI: How NI changed socially and economically but not politically
DD: Stalin/Mussolini propaganda and terror

What an absolutely sexy paper that was

fin709

Done O'Neill and i waffled about coleraine for 3 and a half pages, will get destroyed by an examiner on it

irishlad12345

Well that was the easyiest history paper I ever did even if the congress came up it was easy and lamass and hitler foreign policy couldn't ask for better

ecoste

I think i didn't mark the irish question that i did, am i ****ed?

Kremin

Did 6 pages on montgomery
5 pages on challenges in britain
4 pages on social and economic changes in NI. Do you think it was okay to talk about health housing and education on this question? Didnt really know anything else to say.

Did bad on documents, hopefully over 80% overall

Anonymagician

ecoste wrote: »

I think i didn't mark the irish question that i did, am i ****ed?

I doubt it. I presume it's obvious what you did and they understand the time constraints.

KatieHennessy

westernfrenzy wrote: »

I done
US: Berlin and Cuba impact on US Foreign Policy
NI: How NI changed socially and economically but not politically
DD: Stalin/Mussolini propaganda and terror

What an absolutely sexy paper that was

Did the same except did broadcasting and education impact on Ireland. Very nice paper! Glad to see everyone is happy with it

fin709

Kremin wrote: »

Did 6 pages on montgomery
5 pages on challenges in britain
4 pages on social and economic changes in NI. Do you think it was okay to talk about health housing and education on this question? Didnt really know anything else to say.

Did bad on documents, hopefully over 80% overall

I was very confused on this too. Housing trust set up in 1945 and education act in 1947 so i didnt do that question even tho i had all of welfare state because i thought welfare state was all before 1949 but seemingly it was ok cos everyone did it. I wish i had done the question now

BlueWolf16

6 on Hitlers foreign policy
6 on Parnell and Butt
4 on Cuba and Korea
3 on Euchararistic, 4 with the short Qs..

hopefully A nice grade in August

Cr4pSnip3r

Kremin wrote: »

Did 6 pages on montgomery
5 pages on challenges in britain
4 pages on social and economic changes in NI. Do you think it was okay to talk about health housing and education on this question? Didnt really know anything else to say.

Did bad on documents, hopefully over 80% overall

I think you're a bad person, but in the good way. So many bloody pages :P Housing and education are definitely social changes.

2roadsdiverged

Kermin wrote: »

Same delighted with Gaa when I first saw it realised it was really broad and really specific at the same time. Still got 4 pages from it

Literally my first time ever panicking in an exam and it was when I saw the other two options beside it and my mind went blank and it's usually my best topic out of them all but ah sure two pages is better than none

aaronj2011

That was grand. Wasn't expecting the EC for the document, but oh well. Wrote 4 on Parnell/Butt, 4 on Mussolini/Stalin and 3.5 on Montgomery. Hopefully I'll get a B, maybe a C.

westernfrenzy

Kremin wrote: »

Did 6 pages on montgomery
5 pages on challenges in britain
4 pages on social and economic changes in NI. Do you think it was okay to talk about health housing and education on this question? Didnt really know anything else to say.

Did bad on documents, hopefully over 80% overall

I wrote about health, housing and education for that too

Stooped

That was a grand enough paper considering how little study I did. I did:

Ireland: The gaa. Managed to get two pages and a bit of it.
Nation States: Colonial rivalries. Was able to waffle two and a half pages on 'France did this, Netherlands did that' etc.
D&D: Mussolini propaganda and terror. Thought this essay went well. Got roughly 4 pages and stuck in some extra information.

The case study was decent enough, knew a bit about the Eucharistic congress to waffle the last question for a page and a bit.

Kremin

Cr4pSnip3r wrote: »

I think you're a bad person, but in the good way. So many bloody pages :P Housing and education are definitely social changes.

I only had the time to do it because i wrote a page for the eucharistic essay. Everything i wrote sounded like waffle lol

Welllmade1745

Too words/

BOSSED IT.
Seriously though what a nice paper.ðŸ‘

Kremin

westernfrenzy wrote: »

I wrote about health, housing and education for that too

I didnt like how it was phrased so i left it to last and was about to do sunningdale when i had a mini panic attack wether it was falknet or o neill who proposed the white paper, so gave up

fin709 wrote: »

I was very confused on this too. Housing trust set up in 1945 and education act in 1947 so i didnt do that question even tho i had all of welfare state because i thought welfare state was all before 1949 but seemingly it was ok cos everyone did it. I wish i had done the question now

I dont think the year they were introduced mattered because technically the changes happened over time and not all once. If everyone did it im sure it was fine anyway.
Did you say politics have changed or not, i said they hadnt because i literally didnt know

The_Mac

I know a fair few people in my class who revised later cold-war stuff in the American section like Vietnam and Nixon-->Reagan who were severely disappointed with it. Luckily I had Berlin generally known and Korea pretty much specifically known.

Europe: Joseph Stalin being a nasty man. Nearly 5 pages.

America: Berlin and Korea's significance for US foreign policy, focusing on the prominence of the policy of containment. 4 and a bit pages.

Northern Ireland: Basil Brush and Terry introducing progressive reforms while being crafty Prods. 4.5 pages.

Eucharistic Congress: Significance on the maintenance of a devout Catholic state and Dev's excommunication magically never happening. 2 pages for question 1-3, 2 pages for the essay.

westernfrenzy

Kremin wrote: »

I didnt like how it was phrased so i left it to last and was about to do sunningdale when i had a mini panic attack wether it was falknet or o neill who proposed the white paper, so gave up

I didn't even look at the other NI questions. I just went straight for that question

sheepbaiii

Can someone please tell me what I should've written about for Topic 5 Northern Ireland question 1? About the social/economic/political changes between 1949 and 1969? Had no idea what it was asking, wrote for 4 pages with solid info but no clue if I even answered the question, then ran out of time for America and Dictators. Was hoping for B1 but quite disappointed!

irishlad12345

What was that american dream question even about haha

Ladyystardust

Did O'Neill and talked about coleraine for most of it and waffle about how he helped relations with Catholics and protestants and how he tried help the economy

Stalin & Mussolini talked about stalins show trials and ed sys and youth movements and little on Mussolini cult of personality his ed sys youth movements and bascislly waffle

Bus boycott was the only one I was prepared for

Contextualisation was one and a half pages basically talked about the congress and at the end said how it was significant

Any idea how I did???

hiddenrabbit

5 for Hitler foreign Policy
4.5 for Montgomery
Up on 6 for Butt/Parnell
Pure waffle with Eucharistic

Delighted overall!

Johnnycake

Delighted with that myself
6.5 on Britain in interwar and life during the war
5.5 on both Sunningdale and the Berlin Cuba Question
4 on the document with a nice contextualisation
Couldn't have gone any better

irishlad12345 wrote: »

What was that american dream question even about haha

Basically a question on the economy but they didn't want to make it obvious as its been up the last few years

IrishLoriii

Irish went kinda weird I remembered bits of Lemass but not enough

juru

Can I just put peoples minds at rest. I did script marking for papers and I have had people write 2 pages of quality work where they have answered the question and other where the 5 pages have been pure waffle that bore no relation to the question at atll. Please remember it is quality over quantity always

fin709

juru wrote: »

Can I just put peoples minds at rest. I did script marking for papers and I have had people write 2 pages of quality work where they have answered the question and other where the 5 pages have been pure waffle that bore no relation to the question at atll. Please remember it is quality over quantity always

What would you say about writing about Coleraine for O'Neill? How much would be the max you'd get?

Jason_H

USA- American Dream, what a babe of a question, to those asking its basically the society in the 50s, economy and consensus in one really! Car culture, tv, hollywood, amazing question all together.

D&D- Britain between the wars and during, again amazing

Movements for Reform- Did Parnell and Butt, but weirdly phrased question

Ten paragraphs for each

sheepbaiii

juru wrote: »

Can I just put peoples minds at rest. I did script marking for papers and I have had people write 2 pages of quality work where they have answered the question and other where the 5 pages have been pure waffle that bore no relation to the question at atll. Please remember it is quality over quantity always

I completely misunderstood the first question for Northern Ireland and didn't write about the Welfare State for social/economic changes because the date parameters were later than what I had learnt. Mentioned brookeborough and welfare state in one paragraph and wrote a lot on Coleraine and then a bit on brookeborough/o'neill and nationalists. How badly will I do? So gutted it's 20% gone.

DarraghF197

Making me jealous with all your Cold War stuff! Would have liked to do History in a way, but the sheer amount of writing and potential rote learning turned me off. Furthermore, I hate Irish history :P

DT1

Good paper, not the easiest but still very good nonetheless.

Went bad in 2 places though. I literally opened my jaw when I opened the paper and found EC!!! Honestly don't think anyone expected anything other than the treaty. So I really just waffled on the 40m q saying that the weather was nice and how Dublin was well decorated! What I was really sad about was my bad choice when it came to the European section. I was under time pressure and picked the Germany economic+social one. As soon as I finished my introduction, I thought about what to write and couldn't come up with ideas that would last at least 3 pages It was too late to change questions. I ended up writing about a page and a half, so hopefully it's ok.

For the 1st question on Northern Ireland, is it ok to discuss the welfare state for a bit?? I mean it did ask social... so I assumed it I could just mention 2 or 3 paragraphs on education and housing.

Kremin

I'm surprised everyone is saying it was so easy/handy paper? I remember my friend last year saying everyone was outraged that the treaty didn't come up and people were gambling on it even further this year...

juru

I would have said how most people in Derry wanted uni to be built but the Lockwood committee who had no catholics on the board recommended Colraine.

Protest at Stormant motorcade Ignored by the Government.

Feb 1965 O neill met with Unionists and heard their concerns that they did not want an influx of catholics into Derry because they would lose their majority in the council.

How they used Gerrymandering to fix the electoral boundaries to maintain control.
This contributed to rise of the civil rights movement
Robert Nixon a unionist accused O neill of giving into the Unionists demands, government denied this.

Further Unionists wanted Mcgee college to be closed in Derry as well

Frigating

Jaysis lads, how do you write so much? I wrote 2.5 pages for each essay, and then I ran out of time and ideas, and my head and hand hurt.

D&D: Stalin - mostly show trials, little bit on general propaganda, waffly ending
US:Berlin, Korea, Cuba - A beauty of a question, it was the exact same one I'd done weeks before and learnt off
MPSR: GAA - wasn't sure how to do this one, just wrote a load about how it began, and then ended with a paragraph saying how it gave people entertainment and showed how powerful the IRB were
Congress: Ok. Just wrote down everything I knew about it.