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

  • 16-06-2010 12:08pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,687 ✭✭✭


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Solidarity


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 watevertrevor


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭ummtea


    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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    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 :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 132 ✭✭orlabobs


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭kev9100


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Mwah


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 cleirigh06


    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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭LovexxLife


    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Fete


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    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)


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 yaknowamsayin


    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:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 yaknowamsayin


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭ceol18


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭ummtea


    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? :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 35 yaknowamsayin


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 Fionaxoxox


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,687 ✭✭✭Danger781


    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..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    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+ :D


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35 yaknowamsayin


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 kiwi205


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭ceol18


    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+ :D

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4 madraglic


    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!!:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,687 ✭✭✭Danger781


    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..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭ceol18


    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 :/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    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!


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    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 69 ✭✭ceol18


    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:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭theowen


    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?


  • Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭RyanK


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 kiwi205


    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! :D i really need an A 1 in history to get points! overall was an ok paper :D and thank u zam :) i feel better now! :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Feeky Magee


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Mwah


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭A19B1C12


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 467 ✭✭pbowenroe


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭A19B1C12


    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..


  • Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭madlad88


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Sophsxxx


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭MiamiMortimer


    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!! :confused: :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


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


    I LOVE YOU HISTORY!


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    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭MiamiMortimer


    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. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 44 kfpt


    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!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 49 Emmpty


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭zam


    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...


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