OCR GCSE History Paper 2 - Post Exam Discussion!

I got that more sources opposed, you?

I would tend to agree too. That's what I did do for the 'what do you learn' - I just hadn't seen it before. It seems a bit silly anyway. The gas attack photo was an exception and I don't know - it just seemed like that was randomly thrown in so it wasn't all about censorship - all of the other sources were about censorship in some way and how people didn't know what was going on.

I guess I just revised all the other topics really well, and if it had been on rationing I would've preferred it. Censorship is a very narrow and small part of the course. It just seems silly. They could, at the very least have done it 50:50 censorship and propaganda and done more on propaganda.

I'm always quite critical of History papers - the one we had last Friday was okay, yet I disagree with the whole option compulsory set-up. I think that the 4 and 6 mark questions should be compulsory for both and then the 10 mark essays should be the options.

I didn't find it 'bad' I just didn't like the paper very much. It wasn't hard, it was just silly.

I got that more sources opposed, you?

Yeah I got more opposing too
For the 1915 one I wrote about the munitions crisis even though I knew it was wrong because I couldn't think of anything else. I did also write some of what you guys said too so would they just ignore the wrong bit and give me some marks for the rest or none at all?

Yeah I got more opposing too
For the 1915 one I wrote about the munitions crisis even though I knew it was wrong because I couldn't think of anything else. I did also write some of what you guys said too so would they just ignore the wrong bit and give me some marks for the rest or none at all?

No, I wrote about the munitions crisis too, I don't think it was wrong because it's kind of published as a way to motivate the munitions workers to help the soldiers fight back by carrying on their work. It's a good opportunity to use some extra contextual knowledge!

I didn't analyse source g on the 12 mark question but did all the others, how many marks would I loose? I'm really nervous please help.

Apparently you don't have to use all the sources, so if you included enough for twelve marks in your other analysis you should be fine!������

My school must be the only one who takes the mark scheme as gospel?

Like for my mock I got 11/12 and referred to all of the sources and backed it up with own knowledge and was right and everything, just in one of my paragraphs when talking about one of the sources I didn't quote from the source and just talked about it, so my teacher deducted a mark.

Anyway, that sounds good if that's really true. I want a good A* in History. My coursework was 49/50 which I was happy with but I wanted full marks. My bro got full UMS in his paper 2 so I should be able to do the same (I strongly hope so anyway!)

Oh I don't know! That's what my teacher said particularly if there is seven sources like there was in this paper! Like in my mock I got 12/12 and referred to every sources however some people missed one out, as it seemed to be less appropriate to the question and still got twelve! Hopefully the markers will be slightly nicer than your teachers and we will be able to get an A*!

I hope so anyway. We got told for my mock that it would be on Women and the Vote by my teacher - the other classes were told it would be on world war one so I only revised Women, but still got an A* so not too worried, since I revised WW1 this time, although I still thought Women and the Vote would be the one that came up.

I said that C agreed as it was clearly censored, I said that A, B and C agreed, E, G and H disagreed and F was in between

There was a SOURCE H????? I don't remember seeing that at all, in fact I'm sure the question said analyse Sources A-G...

I'm pretty sure there was no source H, I think the last one was source G (the one about censorship) as there weren't any on the back two pages!