[buildalegohouse]

Can I just ask, did ANYONE actually do the irish question????

[buildalegohouse]

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[nikkiiscool]

(Original post by buildalegohouse)
Can I just ask, did ANYONE actually do the irish question????

Haha no it was a joke. I thought Q1 was a bit difficult actually though but Q3 was a dream. 5 of us did the exam and only 1 of us chose Q2. But toughest paper I've seen yet.

[buildalegohouse]

(Original post by nikkiiscool)
Haha no it was a joke. I thought Q1 was a bit difficult actually though but Q3 was a dream. 5 of us did the exam and only 1 of us chose Q2. But toughest paper I've seen yet.

Ahhh I'm so scared now. There are 3 of us to do history, and I was the only person to do Q2.
I just want to go and kill myself.

[Hannah250]

I did question 1 & 3, thought question 2 looked awful! about 60 people did the exam at my college and I haven't heard of one person who attempted it... but i think that is more because our teachers really rushed the last part of the course so nobody was very confident with Asquith's ministry

[Placebo101]

(Original post by buildalegohouse)
For the Great Depression, I argued that it was a period of re-adjustment rather than a depression, visible vs invisible trade balance. On the background of growth, rising living standards. I weighed up how it is easy to assume that there wasn't a depression with the pyschological effect on the people, that it seemed serious to them etc. etc.
I wrtoe four pages, and for the second q, three. I think I did fairly good on the first, not so good on the second. I kind of wish that I did the third instead, but oh well. Can't change it now. :P

How did everyone think they did?

I totally forgot the invisible vs visible balance!

I put:
Overall description of what great depression was:
Arguments for and against depression in:
- Agriculture
- Railways
- Engineering
- Innovation

What a depression actually means and what gives it the title "great":

- Fall in living standards -- didn't actually happen. Lower prices good for working masses, only highlighted because of Rowntree and Booth, Disraeli's comissions
- Long term fall in growth -- economy recovered afterwards so it didn't really happen

Same conclusion about a re-adjustment rather than recession (Was it cooper that said that?) but it was ultimately down to governments to solve problems of inequality and low living standards. They reacted too slowly, especially start of Sailsbury's premiership.


Anyway I thought the paper was awful, benefited people that didn't properly revise and the Ireland question was too narrow to be fair to the people that did revise but aren't Irish.

[nikkiiscool]

(Original post by buildalegohouse)
Ahhh I'm so scared now. There are 3 of us to do history, and I was the only person to do Q2.
I just want to go and kill myself.

Oh sorry I didn't mean to scare you! I talked to my history teacher afterwards and he said if you were well revised enough it was a perfectly do-able question. Tbh there was enough you could say and argue about too. Given that both Q1 and 2 were challenging, and people had to do at least one or the other, I think maybe the grade boundaries will be lower. It was a difficult paper so I'm with you on the crappy feeling...

[billynofriends]

I did the Irish Q!

Not much to say 1906-1911, Liberals in command in Commons and focused elsewhere. Lots post 1911, Home Rule = rome rule

UVF, Redmond, Bonar Law (he was a ulster man) kings intervention - was Asquith delaying/capable? Mutiny at Carugh, arms purchases, etc etc

saved by the war the old Liberals were!

shame there wasn't a Chamberlain/Labour Question though

[Gibbers]

I did the Irish Question as well... that was a monster question damn. Just tried to throw in as much as I could and make relevant evaluative points about it, such as the 'Curragh Mutiny' and how it highlighted the governments lack of control in Ireland, their failures in dealing with the UVF who undermined them and only emphasized the problems in Ireland etc. And for the life of me I couldn't think of a third paragraph so I just talked about long-term effects in Ireland during the war and post-war - in other words, Ireland is still a pain because the government's policy between 1906 and 1914 was a failure.

The Parliamentary Reform Synoptic Question was great though, however I completely forgot all detail about women so I just said they got a few rights under Salisbury...

Altogether though, it really doesn't matter, I need an E (pass) to get an A seeing how I've got full UMS at the moment... It's only now that I appreciate how much a good AS (and Coursework) grade means. A* would be nice though.

Hope other people do well

[adam.farrow]

(Original post by buildalegohouse)
Ahhh I'm so scared now. There are 3 of us to do history, and I was the only person to do Q2.
I just want to go and kill myself.

I did Q2 and Q3! Both something I happened to revise the day before.

Ireland:
Curragh mutiny
Larne gun-running in public (just a lucky thing I remembered, tiny detail)
lack of control over IVF & UVF
awful dealing with publicity & conservative opposition
concluded with how the only reason they avoided civil war in Ireland was the luck of the outbreak of WW1 & how Ireland was possibility of a reason for entering war.

Const. and parl. reform:
'67 Reform Act
'72 Ballot Act
'83 Corrupt Practices Act
HoL reform - Parliament Act 1911
Spoke a little about suffragettes, but mainly about how it couldn't be a democracy because half of the country still weren't recognised as an electorate

[Hannah250]

For question 3 lots of my friends wrote about the redistribution of seats but I didn't. Really hope that doesn't affect my grade too much :/

[buildalegohouse]

(Original post by adam.farrow)
I did Q2 and Q3! Both something I happened to revise the day before.

Ireland:
Curragh mutiny
Larne gun-running in public (just a lucky thing I remembered, tiny detail)
lack of control over IVF & UVF
awful dealing with publicity & conservative opposition
concluded with how the only reason they avoided civil war in Ireland was the luck of the outbreak of WW1 & how Ireland was possibility of a reason for entering war.

Const. and parl. reform:
'67 Reform Act
'72 Ballot Act
'83 Corrupt Practices Act
HoL reform - Parliament Act 1911
Spoke a little about suffragettes, but mainly about how it couldn't be a democracy because half of the country still weren't recognised as an electorate

Ahh, your answer to Q2 is making me feel a bit better now. I wrote very similiar things, but I keep thinking that I may have waffled a bit, but thanks.

[buildalegohouse]

(Original post by nikkiiscool)
Oh sorry I didn't mean to scare you! I talked to my history teacher afterwards and he said if you were well revised enough it was a perfectly do-able question. Tbh there was enough you could say and argue about too. Given that both Q1 and 2 were challenging, and people had to do at least one or the other, I think maybe the grade boundaries will be lower. It was a difficult paper so I'm with you on the crappy feeling...

Haha that's okay.
My worry was that I knew all the stuff, but it didn't feel like enough to substantiate an essay...but reading people's posts on this thread and what they wrote about is making me feel better...I guess it was designed to be a fairly narrow question.

Can't understand why people though Q1 was hard...I was jumping out of my seat when I saw it, I had my fingers crossed, because I revised that topic a million times.

[Harding]

I didn't do this specific AQA history exam I did HIS3D but noone seems to have done it BUT
I felt I answered the first question well with a developed conclusion etc but I ran out of time for the second question and my conclusion was about 2 lines long and didn't provide a specific 'argument' to say which factor was most important. Does anyone know how much this is going to affect my grade?

[Placebo101]

Did you have to say the difference between constitutional and parliamentary reform? I thought it was pretty obvious and I made distinctions about what democracy actually meant -- that MPs need to be paid and there can't be an unelected second chamber but I never said the words "parliamentary" or "constitutional" in the whole essay :?

[Gibbers]

(Original post by Placebo101)
Did you have to say the difference between constitutional and parliamentary reform? I thought it was pretty obvious and I made distinctions about what democracy actually meant -- that MPs need to be paid and there can't be an unelected second chamber but I never said the words "parliamentary" or "constitutional" in the whole essay :?

I really can't see that being a problem. I did pretty much the same thing. I mean, wasn't the 1911 Parliament Act the only piece of constitutional Reform?

For Parliamentary Reform:
-'67 Reform Bill
-'72 Secret Ballot
-'83 Corrupt and Illegal Practices
-'84 Franchise Act
-'85 Redistribution of Seats
-Women Reforms???

All that and the 1911 Parliament Act was what I included. Salisbury was openly Anti-Democracy, as was his nephew Balfour, so pretty much nothing happened from 1886-1906 (apart from women reforms I think).

Anyway, should be fine.

[Placebo101]

(Original post by Gibbers)
I really can't see that being a problem. I did pretty much the same thing. I mean, wasn't the 1911 Parliament Act the only piece of constitutional Reform?

For Parliamentary Reform:
-'67 Reform Bill
-'72 Secret Ballot
-'83 Corrupt and Illegal Practices
-'84 Franchise Act
-'85 Redistribution of Seats
-Women Reforms???

All that and the 1911 Parliament Act was what I included. Salisbury was openly Anti-Democracy, as was his nephew Balfour, so pretty much nothing happened from 1886-1906 (apart from women reforms I think).

Anyway, should be fine.

There was a payment of MPs bill that allowed Labour candidates to get in and Home Rule candidates to go back and forth between Ireland and Westminster, right? I thought that at least was constitutional, but I'm not exactly sure what they mean by the word "constitutional"


I remembered the dates of the second reform act like you put and the secret ballot act I think. But for the rest I just mentioned which ministry they were passed under.

Franchise act: that's the representation of the people bill right?

I said Corrupt and Illegal Practises act was passed under Disraeli

Did you mention the local government act and councils bills by Salisbury (I think)? I missed them out but I think that they allowed women to sit at councils and made local governments more working class friendly.

And Salisbury was one to accept democracy when it was absolutely necessary.

I think I'm nitpicking now but we should be fine hopefully. I really want an A* in History because I'll probably studying it at Uni, but so far it's looking like I might only get the A* in general studies, which is pretty bad considering how pretty much every decent university wants three As and has about 20 applicants per place :/

[KieranR]

The representation of the People Bill was the original act proposed by Gladstone and Russel that was booted out of Parliament before Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act.

I excluded the payment of MPs, it seemed a very minor point to me.

I also failed to properly revise Womens rights and developments, so... =/

[Placebo101]

(Original post by KieranR)
The representation of the People Bill was the original act proposed by Gladstone and Russel that was booted out of Parliament before Disraeli passed the Second Reform Act.

I excluded the payment of MPs, it seemed a very minor point to me.

I also failed to properly revise Womens rights and developments, so... =/

All that really mattered about was if you mentioned that Britain was still a man's world by 1915. It's alright if you didn't as well, so long as you mentioned how we weren't living in a democracy -- the unelected Lords still existed, decisions were still centralised, voting was still impractical because of the year tenancy property qualification and councils were exclusive.