A2 Edexcel History Unit 3 12th June 2012 (Discussion)

Yeah, my teacher's happy to bet his house on the 2nd Reich appearing. I've looked over the past papers - all TWO of them! - and the 2nd Reich hasn't appeared at all, either 1900-1914 or during WW1, so it's a safe bet. My only worry is that the examiners will second-guess us on this and make it a really foul question, to prevent people just specialising in it! We'll have to see. I can't see the Final Solution coming up though, it's already appeared once and WW2 questions have appeared twice - hence representing 50% of the 30 mark questions issued thus far. Weimar has also appeared, as has the rise of the NSDAP.

Personally, if I were to make a bet, it'll be a Second Reich question and a Weimar, with an emphasis on the Stresemann years and his diplomacy

EDIT: Hehe Cassius it was you who took my name first !!

Haha don't worry, that's okay

And yeah, in regards to the question, I think if its Gorby it'll be that or something very close to it!

You'd have to score full UMS in order to get an A* seeing as 180-61= 119 UMS and the paper is out of 120, the gap between grades means that every raw mark is around more than 1 UMS

Nice stats work I love how we're all wasting valuable revision time speculating over the questions. I'd be more than happy with a Stresemann related question!

So glad i'm not the only one out there who is stressing like crazy about this exam. This thread is providing therapy/ procrastination material!
Everyone seems to agree that there's a high chance the 2nd Reich will come up. If so, question would probably be either where the power lay; how those in power kept hold of it; or what the main threats were to the 'status quo'.
My teacher seems to think there is a high chance the final solution will come up as it's considered such an emotive/important part of the syllabus that they like testing it.
Whatever happens, I just can't wait for this exam to be over!!

Last thing i promise lol. For gorbachev i have so much to agree with the qs but not much disagreeing. Would it be economic factors and the situation in eastern europe?

I've been trying to work this out as well, and this is what I think:

For part A, it'll be a question on the Tudor government machine, and one on religion. There hasn't been a question on the government machine before, and so it'll almost certainly come up. Therefore it's unlikely that faction will come up as well, as that focuses on almost exactly the same time period. I doubt Anglo-Spanish relations will come up, as it's come up the past two years. Therefore I reckon it'll be religion as the other option, also because it didn't come up last year, whereas faction did.

For part B, I'm hoping it'll be Wyatt's rebellion or the Northern rebellion, or possibly a question about all the rebellions. It's unlikely to be on the Pilgrimage of Grace or the 1549 rebellions as they've come up before.

I hate the Elizabethan parliaments question and have decided I'm not doing it, so no idea what'll come up for that!

Hope this helps

Ugh, really not looking forward to the knowledge question for this. I just did a massive ton of revision on power of the crown 1536-1553, so I guess that comes into Tudor government revision kind of?

For rebellions, I don't really mind, because I know them all fairly well. My teacher thinks it's a possibility that they'll ask a general question about ALL the rebellions, like 'To what extent was religion a cause of rebellion?' or something like that. She's normally very good at guessing so...

I feel the same (although I haven't done a massive ton of revision on power of the crown...). I love the Anglo-Spanish questions and hate all the faction/power of the monarch things.

I reckon that could happen too, which I'm not too bothered about. Ideally I'd love a whole one on the Wyatt rebellion, but I'm not really too fussed.

Factors against:
• Reagan Doctrine: Actions in the Third World, increasing military spending and SDI
• Popular Protests
• Economic problems in the USSR
• Ideology: had failed to provide the rise in living standards promised - erosion of ideology
• Moral corruption: especially with Eastern European leaders (e.g Ceausescu)
• Other personalities: Thatcher, Pope John Paul II

For historiography:
• Triumphalists: stress role of Reagan
• Critics of Triumphalists: some even say Reagan's policies delayed the end of the Cold War, and thus stress other factors as being more important
• Realists: Reagan + other external factors
• Ideationalists: Internal factors important

I think that covers it all

thank you SO much

What % of our total A level grade is this? My teacher has constantly told me 40%, but on the Edexcel website it says 30%?

What % of our total A level grade is this? My teacher has constantly told me 40%, but on the Edexcel website it says 30%?