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I'm paper 1: aspects of international relations: Germany and A new world
paper 2: british depth study

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Reply 21

J__

Original post by salty670

what questions do you struggle on ? the 4,6,10 ones or the source interpretations ?

What are the normal grade boundaries for paper 1, my teacher always tells me its 90% for an A*, but i feel thats considerable high compared to all my other subjects?

Reply 22

J__

Can anyone send me a link to all the past grade boundaries to the OCR b history papers please.

Reply 23

salty670

the garage boundaries average around 60 out of 81, so around 75%

Reply 24

J__

Original post by salty670

the garage boundaries average around 60 out of 81, so around 75%

Is that for an A* ?? & if so what would be an A thank you averagely?

Reply 25

salty670

i think its around 50 for an A but varies , last year an A grade was around the high thirties

Reply 26

Summayah Akhtar

I'm doing paper 1: aspcts of international relations: Germany and a new world
paper 2: british depth study 1939-75

I'm an A* student, I find that many people struggle with the 10 markers but you literally have to write three paragrapghs:
1. for
2. against (depending on the question, 1o markers usually ask your opinion of astatement or the significance of an event)
3. conclusion, (summaray of what your arhument would be after judging the argumebts fro and against, make sure you don't add any extra points to what you've previouslty mentioned)

Reply 27

ellamoon_22

Very confident my first mock i got 80/81 second mock 75/81 im hoping for an A* in real thing. I do cuba,vietnam cold war etc good luk everyone

Reply 28

Lhdusitsis

I'm doing Cold War, and Germany and for paper 2 BDS

Any predictions on topics?

Reply 29

soccerdude007

I do
Paper 1: International relations- the inter war years and Mao's China depth study (Mao's China is so hard
)
Paper 2: British Depth study 1890-1918

Reply 30

pentasticpasta

Original post by J__

Im in the same position as you, i always get B's in the exam. Im fine with the first part - all of the international relations but i can't seem to grasp the American topic, like the civil rights. I just think there is a lot more in that part.

Argh!! I don't even know where I'm going wrong, sometimes my teacher says I don't use enough contextual knowledge, other times the structure isn't right, I'm just a bit confused as to what a model answer looks like and how much I should be writing because I feel like I write a lot but just don't write the correct things because I don't get as many marks as I expect to. I don't have an issue with understanding sources or questions and I answer them to the best of my ability but I can't figure out where I'm going wrong

Reply 31

snickersbar

hi, does anyone know where to find the paper 2 for british depth study 1890-1918 from last year????
any help would be very much appreciated, thanx

Reply 32

benno123

Original post by d.aniel

Hey, I'm also doing Cold War, Vietnam and Cuban missile crisis and Nazi Germany for paper one does anybody have any predictions on what will come up as the compulsory source question- my teacher thinks Vietnam but I really hope it isn't because it's the one topic I haven't clicked with and id like to avoid it if I could.

I don't like Vietnam either, really dont like it but I managed to find this pattern in the past papers and so I hope this helps mate.

2010 - Early Cold War Cartoon
2011 - Vietnam Cartoon
2012 - Cuban Missile Crisis Cartoon

2013 - Early Cold War Cartoon
2014 - Vietnam Cartoon
2015 - Cuban Missile Crisis Cartoon

2016 - Early Cold War Cartoon?
I am almost certain that this years compulsory source question will be on: The Early Cold War

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Reply 33

benno123

Original post by snickersbar

hi, does anyone know where to find the paper 2 for british depth study 1890-1918 from last year????
any help would be very much appreciated, thanx

I managed to find it here, hope this helps mate:

http://www.spaldinghigh.lincs.sch.uk/media/2015%20OCR%20paper%202%20GCSE.pdf

Reply 34

snickersbar

Original post by benno123

I managed to find it here, hope this helps mate:

http://www.spaldinghigh.lincs.sch.uk/media/2015%20OCR%20paper%202%20GCSE.pdf

thanx so much that's really helpful. would you by any chance have the international relations Germany depth study paper from last year? it would really help, but don't worry if you don't :smile:

Reply 35

jessdstromberg

My teacher always says it's 85% for an A* (history paper 1) however on OCR it always seems a lot less - does anyone have any idea on the grade boundaries for history 1?