CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?

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  • View Poll Results: How many words (approx) are your answers for 25 mark questions for (CIE-History)
    500-700 words
    		2 66.67%
    700-900 words
    		2 66.67%
    900-1100 words
    		0 0%
    1100-1300 words
    		0 0%
    1300-1500 words
    		0 0%
    1500+ (if this is it please specify as a post)
    		0 0%
    Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 3. You may not vote on this poll

  1. kashmir.noir's Avatar
    1 28-02-2008  13:35
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    CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    Around how much is your ideal answer length for the 25 mark questions? (if its under the time limit)

    And while i'm at it, how long are your source based answers? (again under the time limit)
    Last edited by kashmir.noir; 28-02-2008 at 13:39.
  2. WokSz's Avatar
    2 28-02-2008  13:55
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    not many people on here do CIE, let alone History. But I normally do around 500 to 700 words ^^
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    3 28-02-2008  19:12
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    (Original post by WokSz)
    not many people on here do CIE, let alone History. But I normally do around 500 to 700 words ^^
    Thought i'd try.
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    4 03-03-2008  14:38
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    SERIOUSLY!?

    No one? Oh god.

    Okay - anyone tell me how much they would write for a 25mark history question??
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    5 03-03-2008  16:03
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    Depends what the overall mark for the exam was and how long the exam took, I normally spent a proportional amount of time on each question and kept writing until it was done. IE 60 minutes per 60 mark exam, 20 minutes on a 20 mark question.
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    6 10-03-2008  16:27
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    Ah, this paper however has like 40 minutes per question or something like that.
    Damn.
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    7 16-03-2008  18:18
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    kash i do cambridge history..and i thought i was all alone :O anyways...i do around 1500 words...in 45 minutes.... which papers are u doing? i did modern european history in AS and am doing American History in A2...what about you?
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    8 24-03-2008  18:06
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    kash i do cambridge history..and i thought i was all alone :O anyways...i do around 1500 words...in 45 minutes.... which papers are u doing? i did modern european history in AS and am doing American History in A2...what about you?
    !!!
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    9 27-03-2008  08:32
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    (Original post by fahd_h)
    kash i do cambridge history..and i thought i was all alone :O anyways...i do around 1500 words...in 45 minutes.... which papers are u doing? i did modern european history in AS and am doing American History in A2...what about you?
    Are you joking?

    Im doing Paper 1 & 3!

    Whaaaat? How can you write that fast?

    Got any good links for paper 1?
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    10 27-03-2008  08:32
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    (Original post by made_of_fail)
    !!!
    Yeah, now I understand why I was a mark short of an A, I have speed writers to compete with.
  11. kashmir.noir's Avatar
    11 23-04-2008  16:07
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    Re: CIE History AS and A2 answer lengths?
    Okay- seriously, only 2 people? Waaaah.
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