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Edexcel AS History (Unit 1) - 15th May 2012

Anyone do wars of the roses..?

Yep! War of the Roses for the first question, and then Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII for the second question (yeah, we have a great deal of diversity in our modules :rolleyes:

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What question did you do? I chose question 11, "To what extent was financial weakness of the crown the cause for outbreak of civil war in 1455?" I don't think it went too badly actually, at least there were some nice questions compared to some of the other papers we've done for mocks at college :P

Reply 181

Distractions

Original post by IndiaCaitlinn

I did Russia 1881-1953
I did the question on the fall of the Romanovs and collectivisation.
Not feeling too confident really :/
I'm dreading the next exam, anyone else doing British political history option? ;(

So far my exams haven't been too bad but when it gets to Tuesday and I have to do my British History option I will want to crawl a few hundred miles away and hide
Which section are you doing, 1945-90?

Reply 182

username919394

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Original post by Distractions

So far my exams haven't been too bad but when it gets to Tuesday and I have to do my British History option I will want to crawl a few hundred miles away and hide
Which section are you doing, 1945-90?

Yeah me too :frown:

its awful! Yeah I'm doing that.

Reply 183

MirrorPixie

Original post by Energy_Purple

Yep! War of the Roses for the first question, and then Battle of Bosworth and Henry VII for the second question (yeah, we have a great deal of diversity in our modules :rolleyes:

)

What question did you do? I chose question 11, "To what extent was financial weakness of the crown the cause for outbreak of civil war in 1455?" I don't think it went too badly actually, at least there were some nice questions compared to some of the other papers we've done for mocks at college :P

Yeah I did that one too.. I found it alright :smile:

I'm really not sure about the Henry VII one though - I did how far he secured his reign (something along those lines)
I wrote about pretenders, rebellions, dating his reign back, marrying elizabeth and yorkist threats!!! Don't think I did enough detail though :eek:

Reply 184

iamthestig

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Original post by IndiaCaitlinn

Yeah me too :frown:

its awful! Yeah I'm doing that.

I'm doing British Politics 1945-1990, i prefer it :colondollar:

Reply 185

eelnais

15

Did Stalin's Russia, picked the opponents one, and Civil Rights, picked the Black Power one.

Not too bad, nice questions if worded in an annoying way.

Reply 186

FaxFan

I thought the Russia questions were fairly nice and wide, in comparison to some we've been shown in the past anyway...

Reply 187

JacobWard

If people don't know, the Russia questions was

How far was Nicholas II responsible for the fall of the Romanovs in 1917?
To what extent was Trotsky's leadership of the Red Army the most important reason for the Survival of the Bolshevik Government?
Why could Stalin's opponents not prevent him from becoming the leader of the USSR in 1929?
How far did collectivisation change Russian aggriculture from 1928-41?

I did Civil War and Rise to power, both of which i predicted would come up :biggrin:

Reply 188

Distractions

Original post by IndiaCaitlinn

Yeah me too :frown:

its awful! Yeah I'm doing that.

I got a C on my mock and I have a few days to re learn everything and how to structure my answer!

Reply 189

Distractions

Original post by iamthestig

I'm doing British Politics 1945-1990, i prefer it :colondollar:

Can you tutor me? :tongue:

Reply 190

username919394

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Original post by Distractions

I got a C on my mock and I have a few days to re learn everything and how to structure my answer!

Damnnnn

the teachers at my sixth form are terrible, we only finished learning the content today and I don't have any more lessons before the exam :frown:

Reply 191

PudPud

5

For the Stalin Power Struggle question I split it into:
Triumvirate vs Left Opposition
Dummvirate vs New/United Opposition
Stalin vs Bukharin
and talked about how Stalin beat all of them using various factors e.g ability to manipulate the party etc.
Is this wrong?

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 192

Lorem Ipsum

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I quite liked this exam, did Italy 1896-1943 and Germany 1945-1991, think it went ok, managed to balance my answers satisfactorily :smile:

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Reply 193

Ami

Original post by hannahisasmit

Question 10? How accurate is it to say the black power movement weakened the civil rights movement? If so, yeah I did it.

I was rushing at the end though, not to sure how that question went. :/

What about you?

Yep, that's the one!
Yeah, I rushed it too!
Not sure how great my points were :/

Reply 194

I'll.Be.Back

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Original post by PaddyTheOmani

I answered questions two and five. Two was on the significance of Cavour in unification and five was 'to what extent does the rise of the PNF 1919-1921 contribute to the fall of the liberal system?' or something like that. The Mussolini question was structured like this:
Fear of socialism, weakness of the liberal government, the effects of WW1, fascist squads, the rise in popularity of the PNF.

I did the exact same questions, with the exact same points!

Reply 195

Energy_Purple

10

Original post by MirrorPixie

Yeah I did that one too.. I found it alright :smile:

I'm really not sure about the Henry VII one though - I did how far he secured his reign (something along those lines)
I wrote about pretenders, rebellions, dating his reign back, marrying elizabeth and yorkist threats!!! Don't think I did enough detail though :eek:

Haha, I took one look at that question for Henry VII and decided to avoid it completely, so I did the other question about how far the main aims of Henry's foreign policy were to secure his own position. I just talked about the various treaties - Etaples, Medina del Campo, Ayrton and the two Intercursus' - and how they either secured Henry, England or the dynasty. I did the same thing though, I'm not sure about the level of detail, but I'm hoping it was enough to get the grade I want :s-smilie:

Reply 196

PaddyTheOmani

Original post by I'll.Be.Back

I did the exact same questions, with the exact same points!

Thank God. Haha, that's some relief. How do you think it went? :smile:

Reply 197

elenastallos

Did anyone do Italian and German unification?

Reply 198

PaddyTheOmani

Original post by elenastallos

Did anyone do Italian and German unification?

Yeah, I did the Cavour question.

Reply 199

Bulbasaur

17

Original post by PudPud

For the Stalin Power Struggle question I split it into:
Triumvirate vs Left Opposition
Dummvirate vs New/United Opposition
Stalin vs Bukharin
and talked about how Stalin beat all of them using various factors e.g ability to manipulate the party etc.
Is this wrong?

Sounds good, I usually would structure it something like that. But I didn't in the exam because I didn't feel like I would be able to link it to the question effectively and might become too descriptive, because the question wasn't why Stalin rose to power; it was why his opponents couldn't prevent it. Pretty annoying but I had to make that adjustment. Instead I alluded to the ways in which the contenders were unable to stop Stalin from destroying him (i.e. due to his role of General Secretary etc. which meant they were voted out at party congresses, was able to make the party pro-stalin, etc.) As long as you could link it back to the question and it was all relevant; actually stating how the opponents were unable to stop him rather than simply stating why he came to power, you could be in for a level 5.

If you answered it simply as how Stalin rose to power but were still analytical about it you'd probably get a level 4, which is still A-B grade territory depending on where in the level it is (somewhere between 19-24 marks).

(edited 11 years ago)

Edexcel AS History (Unit 1) - 15th May 2012

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