History's in the Past ... the verdict (merged)

Danger781 · 16-06-2010 12:08pm #1

I'm so screwed it's beyond belief..

Solidarity · 16-06-2010 12:17pm

Ah yes, the infamous History paper. I well remember mine from two years ago.
Terribley traumatic. Hated modern history.

Bob the Builder · 16-06-2010 12:18pm

Same here and there's little I can do to fix it. I didn't do any work for it, and now I regret it.... deeply. But on the brighter side, I'm not going to worry too much about it at this stage.

watevertrevor · 16-06-2010 5:19pm

Bob the Builder wrote: »

Same here and there's little I can do to fix it. I didn't do any work for it, and now I regret it.... deeply. But on the brighter side, I'm not going to worry too much about it at this stage.

haha You're bright side is funny.

ummtea · 16-06-2010 5:20pm

Case study for HL was grand except for Q4.

Who else thought the Essay q's for the Impact of Partition were really hard?

Not a bad paper though! Predictions were fairly accurate

zam · 16-06-2010 5:27pm

It was pretty sweet alright!
I thought Q4 on Sunningdale was okay! And at least there were no difficult questions
Did Anglo-Irish for S&P, happy with that!
Delighted with Hitler and Mussolini Church-State relations question, it was lovely!
And as for the US economic boom... Oh wow :P

Anyway I feel pretty satisfied and I'm glad that's over and done with, t'will be smooth sailing from here onwards

orlabobs · 16-06-2010 5:29pm

Quite frankly I'm chuffed with the paper, wrote about 11-14 paragraphs on each topic and 3 pages on the q4 on document!

and the economy came up and church state relations!

I'm a very happy woman!

kev9100 · 16-06-2010 5:30pm

It was a lovely paper. I did Johnson, Stalin and the lead up to partition. The only real tricky part was the external factors for Stalin.

Mwah · 16-06-2010 5:33pm

how many pages did people write for their essays??
i loves the paper, was writing to the last second.
the essays for sov+par were hard as someone already said

cleirigh06 · 16-06-2010 5:34pm

I wrote 9 pages on Parnell in land reform and Home Rule
3.5 or 4.5 (cant remember) on society + economy WW1
7 pages on society + economy Germany WW2
But when it came to documents Q I didn have time. Done the answers on documents badly, and wrote bullet points about Sunningdale
I am delighted with how I done, although I was suprised and dissapointed at how I learnt loads of things that have never been asked, and they STILL weren't asked this year

I am expecting an A

LovexxLife · 16-06-2010 5:38pm

Im glad it went all well for you.

I didnt like the paper really, had to improvise a bit, none of my stuff really came up.
But I go through i did have time to do the last europe questions just got the introduction down:(

But sure another done.

Fete · 16-06-2010 5:40pm

cleirigh06 wrote: »

I am delighted with how I done, although I was suprised and dissapointed at how I learnt loads of things that have never been asked, and they STILL weren't asked this year
I am expecting an A

Same here.

I was still very happy with the paper and have high hopes for an A or at least a B1.

theowen · 16-06-2010 5:41pm

zam wrote: »

It was pretty sweet alright!
I thought Q4 on Sunningdale was okay! And at least there were no difficult questions
Did Anglo-Irish for S&P, happy with that!
Delighted with Hitler and Mussolini Church-State relations question, it was lovely!
And as for the US economic boom... Oh wow :P

Anyway I feel pretty satisfied and I'm glad that's over and done with, t'will be smooth sailing from here onwards

Same with me. I literally giggled with joy when I read through it first:)

Here's hoping for a B1+. (I'm saying B1 for everything I might get an A in just to be safe)

yaknowamsayin · 16-06-2010 5:42pm

History was graaand. Parnell, Stalin and Johnson you lovely , lovely people. The Document was dead handy. Question 4 was a dream come true. Although that was the most tense exam ever. I was roasting and feverish and felt so sick. Glad to be home

:D:D

yaknowamsayin · 16-06-2010 5:43pm

cleirigh06 wrote: »

I wrote 9 pages on Parnell in land reform and Home Rule
3.5 or 4.5 (cant remember) on society + economy WW1
7 pages on society + economy Germany WW2
But when it came to documents Q I didn have time. Done the answers on documents badly, and wrote bullet points about Sunningdale
I am delighted with how I done, although I was suprised and dissapointed at how I learnt loads of things that have never been asked, and they STILL weren't asked this year
I am expecting an A

Let us know how that goes for ya. seriously when on 15 august you get your result tell me. sounds legendary

ceol18 · 16-06-2010 5:43pm

eucharistic congress was a BEAUT, roundabout vietnam one was grand-ish, the docuement was a load of waffle as per usual, but i fell down on my dictatorship question, i learnt mussolini and fascism TO A TEE, and then the only q that came up involved hitler too...so i wrote what i knew about mussolini, and totally improvised on hitler, it was church-state relations and i went on about how he thought he was a god

i was hoping for a B but now i'm not so sure

EDIT: i did 5 on eucharistic cong, 4 on musso/hitler, and 4.5 on johnson

although it really doesn't matter about length tbh, quality not quantity

ummtea · 16-06-2010 5:45pm

orlabobs wrote: »

Quite frankly I'm chuffed with the paper, wrote about 11-14 paragraphs on each topic and 3 pages on the q4 on document!

So this bionic arm of yours, was it expensive or?

yaknowamsayin · 16-06-2010 5:47pm

Mwah wrote: »

how many pages did people write for their essays??
i loves the paper, was writing to the last second.
the essays for sov+par were hard as someone already said

It really does depend on the size of your writing though. And the 9-12 pages could be absolute garbage ya know? I wrote about 5 A4 on stalin, 2.5 A4 on Parnell and and 3 A4 on Johnson and a page for contextualisation. And my writing's small.

Fionaxoxox · 16-06-2010 5:48pm

Delighted with the paper! All the things I hoped would come up came up! I did:

Irish: Cosgrave and DeValera: Anglo-Irish Relations
D & D :Church-State Relations
USA: American Economic Boom

So happy it is over with!

I wonder what I will get....

Wrote about 6-7 pages on each.

Danger781 · 16-06-2010 5:48pm

I got pretty lucky with the questions that came up.. Church-state relations I sorta knew and just brought in about Anti-Semitism in the exam for most of it..

Johnson was literally the only thing I knew for US history.. Only got onto my third page when the exam was over..

Didn't even attempt Irish History..

Overall, not happy but I got fairly lucky all the same..

theowen · 16-06-2010 5:49pm

ceol18 wrote: »

eucharistic congress was a BEAUT, roundabout vietnam one was grand-ish, the docuement was a load of waffle as per usual, but i fell down on my dictatorship question, i learnt mussolini and fascism TO A TEE, and then the only q that came up involved hitler too...so i wrote what i knew about mussolini, and totally improvised on hitler, it was church-state relations and i went on about how he thought he was a god
i was hoping for a B but now i'm not so sure

If you didn't write a good essay on Hitler you'll just get marked out of 50 instead of 60. Could well get a B3+

yaknowamsayin · 16-06-2010 5:49pm

When people say 12 pages do they mean 6 A4 back to back or literally 12 a4 back to back

kiwi205 · 16-06-2010 5:51pm

i was going grand until i got to the european section! i learned church state relations for germany but not for italy cos all the sample papers in the exam papers said church state relations in germany and/or italy! so i kinda briefly mentioned the lateran treaty said it was signed in 1926 when it was actually sigend in 1929 said mussolini signed it with pope pius the 11th and pretty much wrote the rest of the essay about germany! i said mussolini was atheist but that's about it although my germany church state relations bit was good.....do u think i could still get an A1 or will i lose a lot of marks for pretty much writing my essay on germany while briefly mentioning mussolini?

ceol18 · 16-06-2010 5:52pm

theowen wrote: »

If you didn't write a good essay on Hitler you'll just get marked out of 50 instead of 60. Could well get a B3+

do they do that?? i suppose that wouldn't be so bad...there's the project too

madraglic · 16-06-2010 5:52pm

i did terrible!! division and realignment questions were horrible!!!!
struggled in contrasting de valera and cosgrave on anglo-irish relations!!!
aced church state relations!!!....thankfully
as for the documents........eh...... at least it was sunningdale

was hopin for B1 say i got a C1..... fairly disappointed and had to listen to my delighted friends!!:(

Danger781 · 16-06-2010 5:53pm

Really not happy..

Spent far too long on the documents.. 90 mins

Got 4 pages of waffle for Mussolini & Hitler

Got 2.5 pages of summarised notes on Johnson

Irish History was left blank..

ceol18 · 16-06-2010 5:53pm

kiwi205 wrote: »

i was going grand until i got to the european section! i learned church state relations for germany but not for italy cos all the sample papers in the exam papers said church state relations in germany and/or italy! so i kinda briefly mentioned the lateran treaty said it was signed in 1926 when it was actually sigend in 1929 said mussolini signed it with pope pius the 11th and pretty much wrote the rest of the essay about germany! i said mussolini was atheist but that's about it although my germany church state relations bit was good.....do u think i could still get an A1 or will i lose a lot of marks for pretty much writing my essay on germany while briefly mentioning mussolini?

im the exact same, only i knew italy and not germany!! haaha...wrote what i knew on mussolini and bluffed hitler

zam · 16-06-2010 5:54pm

kiwi205 wrote: »

i was going grand until i got to the european section! i learned church state relations for germany but not for italy cos all the sample papers in the exam papers said church state relations in germany and/or italy! so i kinda briefly mentioned the lateran treaty said it was signed in 1926 when it was actually sigend in 1929 said mussolini signed it with pope pius the 11th and pretty much wrote the rest of the essay about germany! i said mussolini was atheist but that's about it although my germany church state relations bit was good.....do u think i could still get an A1 or will i lose a lot of marks for pretty much writing my essay on germany while briefly mentioning mussolini?

You can still get an A1. You did mention him, which is all that's required! It sounds pretty good too.

theowen · 16-06-2010 5:54pm

ceol18 wrote: »

do they do that?? i suppose that wouldn't be so bad...there's the project too

Oh I was trying to cheer you up...sorry. But if you get 50 out of 50 from what you wrote you could get 30 out of 40 from the over all grade!

16-06-2010 5:55pm

Thought it was a grand paper overall. Didn't have a lot to say about Stalin's external policy, and I basically turned the Johnson essay into a Vietnam essay with some successes at the end, but I think I answered the question alright so I'm happy. The Sunningdale and Anglo Irish relations Qs were lovely.

ceol18 · 16-06-2010 5:55pm

theowen wrote: »

Oh I was trying to cheer you up...sorry. But if you get 50 out of 50 from what you wrote you could get 30 out of 40 from the over all grade!

i know sorry haha i didn't mean to sound pissed off haha! well that's alright i suppose, was just initially really pissed off about it seeing as i knew fascism so well! but hey it's over now

:D:D:D:D:D:D

theowen · 16-06-2010 5:57pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Thought it was a grand paper overall. Didn't have a lot to say about Stalin's external policy, and I basically turned the Johnson essay into a Vietnam essay with some successes at the end, but I think I answered the question alright so I'm happy. The Sunningdale and Anglo Irish relations Qs were lovely.

Did everyone say DeV was better ye?

RyanK · 16-06-2010 5:57pm

I got very lucky with History today. I only studied:

CnaG + FF.
Anglo-American Pop culture.
American boom.
5 mins on Sunningdale.

And they all came up. If one of them didn't come up.. well.. I didn't have any back up, apart from maybe 2 pages of BS.

Overall got very lucky. And guys, I've written essays that are only 4 pages long and got A's in them. So don't bother saying "Oh I wrote 10 pages on each essay". Quality not quantity.

kiwi205 · 16-06-2010 5:57pm

ceol18 wrote: »

im the exact same, only i knew italy and not germany!! haaha...wrote what i knew on mussolini and bluffed hitler

yay i'm not the only one so!

i really need an A 1 in history to get points! overall was an ok paper

and thank u zam

i feel better now! :cool:

Feeky Magee · 16-06-2010 5:58pm

cleirigh06 wrote: »

I wrote 9 pages on Parnell in land reform and Home Rule
3.5 or 4.5 (cant remember) on society + economy WW1
7 pages on society + economy Germany WW2
But when it came to documents Q I didn have time. Done the answers on documents badly, and wrote bullet points about Sunningdale
I am delighted with how I done, although I was suprised and dissapointed at how I learnt loads of things that have never been asked, and they STILL weren't asked this year
I am expecting an A

Stop writing comments bragging about the amount you wrote and go back to making hilariously embarrassing videos that we can all laugh at.

Mwah · 16-06-2010 5:59pm

theowen wrote: »

Did everyone say DeV was better ye?

yeah i did... i totally forgot about cosgrave cause i was getting into it and wrote loads on dev and then i had to squeeze in a bit of cosgrave :P

zam · 16-06-2010 6:00pm

theowen wrote: »

Did everyone say DeV was better ye?

That was a bit odd, I had no idea what to say! Was in a bit of a rush so didn't technically answer the question properly, just wrote down everything with a bit of "..that was a great policy on cosgrave's part....a success of de valera's anglo-irish policy..." etc :P Hopefully it'll be okay.

A19B1C12 · 16-06-2010 6:02pm

History isn't my strong point so I did 3 pages on Johnson, 3 pages on Germanys Management of their Problems and scraped together 2 on how the Eucharistic Congress affected Ireland. Did 1 page of solid stuff on the document question and would be pleased with a "C". Do you guys reckon I should be alright?

EuropeanSon · 16-06-2010 6:03pm

I thought it was glorious. Sunningdale Q was grand, I did RTE for the Irish Q, knew it perfect, 3.5 pages of excellence, knew Stalin back to front, wrote 4 pages, and did the Hungary etc question in D&R, wrote 4 more. Lovely!! Everything I studied came up.

pbowenroe · 16-06-2010 6:04pm

For church state relations what did people write about for Hitler?

I'm pretty lucky that the essays I crammed today came up.

EuropeanSon · 16-06-2010 6:05pm

johnb03 wrote: »

History isn't my strong point so I did 3 pages on Johnson, 3 pages on Germanys Management of their Problems and scraped together 2 on how the Eucharistic Congress affected Ireland. Did 1 page of solid stuff on the document question and would be pleased with a "C". Do you guys reckon I should be alright?

Assuming your project was decent and you got most of the documents marks, I'd say yeah, you should be grand for a C.

A19B1C12 · 16-06-2010 6:06pm

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Assuming your project was decent and you got most of the documents marks, I'd say yeah, you should be grand for a C.

Cheers man..

madlad88 · 16-06-2010 6:06pm

european history was rough . . . did johnson for american history mostly wrote about vietnam tho :eek: ah well IM FINISHED NOW ... FOREVERRRRRR!
SUM BUZZZ

Sophsxxx · 16-06-2010 6:08pm

I am soooo happy!
Last year I couldn't even answer the doc q but this year I did a whole paper!!:D
Irish: Parnell (he's an absolute legend!)
European: Church/state but I did 2 pages on mussolini and 1&1/2 page on Hitler so...prob not the best
America: Foreign policy!
I did 3 1/2 pgs to 4 on all the essays and 2 pgs for q4 on the doc.
It doesn't sound like a lot but my writing is tiny!

MiamiMortimer · 16-06-2010 6:09pm

Fionaxoxox wrote: »

Delighted with the paper! All the things I hoped would come up came up! I did:

Irish: Cosgrave and DeValera: Anglo-Irish Relations
D & D :Church-State Relations
USA: American Economic Boom

So happy it is over with! I wonder what I will get....

Wrote about 6-7 pages on each.

Good God....do you have big writing, or do you leave big spaces between words?! All I've ever managed is 3 pages per topic and 4 on the documents, I do have quite small writing though...but still! How do you get the time? Ye're like superwomen!!

:P

Bob the Builder · 16-06-2010 6:12pm

I was lucky for the most part today.... Expected to fail and actually passed 40-50% - delighted..

I LOVE YOU HISTORY!

16-06-2010 6:13pm

theowen wrote: »

Did everyone say DeV was better ye?

Yeah I said he took more daring steps but that the economic war was badly handled and it was still important to acknowledge Cosgrave's success in obtaining the Statute of Westminister.

MiamiMortimer · 16-06-2010 6:15pm

I thought it was a dreadful paper at first-but I started on my favourite question "The Moon Landings" and by the time I got to my least favourite "How governments in Germany dealt with social and economic problems 1920-1939" it wasn't my least favourite question anymore!
Remembered Gustav Stresemann's name, which helped with everything really...

For a while all I remembered was Gustav, which wouldn't have gone down too well...calling him only by his first name... :P

And I finished everything in the last minute! That was the biggie for me, it's so long and there's so little time I sometimes don't get stuff finished! Plus, slow writer.

kfpt · 16-06-2010 6:17pm

to anyone saying that they wrote 9 pages and 7 pages on each essay..cut the crap..you cant possibly write that much info on a topic without wafflng like and idiot....and you would even have time to do that its only 2 hours 50 mins!!!!!...3.5 on each essay and 2 for the contextualisation is enough!!

Emmpty · 16-06-2010 6:20pm

theowen wrote: »

Did everyone say DeV was better ye?

I said W.T Cosgrave cause he used the good relations more to his advantage and Dev was a bit more flukey. But by the end of it I was more leaning towards dev...

It was a lovely paper though! I only wrote about 3.5 pages each but anymore then that and I'd start talking crap and my hand would fall off.

zam · 16-06-2010 6:20pm

kfpt wrote: »

to anyone saying that they wrote 9 pages and 7 pages on each essay..cut the crap..you cant possibly write that much info on a topic without wafflng like and idiot....and you would even have time to do that its only 2 hours 50 mins!!!!!...3.5 on each essay and 2 for the contextualisation is enough!!

Some people have massive writing! 3.5 is deffo enough but I wrote a lot more only because as the exam goes on my writing gets bigger and bigger and bigger :P Some people in my exam centre were asking for extra paper after the first forty minutes though! That scared me...

History's in the Past ... the verdict (merged)

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