How are you finding As/A level History?

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Also it's the only A level I do where revision just doesn't help

Hmm, everyone saying revision does matter.

I dunno, I did no revision for my first module. Opened the book, thought nah Physics more pressing-things I don't understand yet. The other 2 modules I did maybe 1-2 hours each. Same for French, but I speak it. Compared to say Biology, Physics, and Philosophy where I probs spent 5 full 12 hour days revising for each module.

I can't bring up dates, but everything else I could remember just fine, all the factors and stuff you only need to know like 3-4 factors for each question.

So off the top of my head a few months on:
E.g Reason for First Crusade:

Intro
1)Religion, incl Papal Bull etc.
2)Thought of personal gain-land, booty, glory etc.
3)Swept up in a mass movement-peer pressure etc.
Conclude

I could write that essay now, and be fairly confident I'd get an A. All you have to do is take each of those factors and write a load of common sense, with a few facts you picked up in class, e.g that for peer pressure large numbers of people appeared to join together, from the same geographical areas. That structure would probs do for exam conditions. Conclude, choose at random whichever factor you feel like as long as there were half-decent reasons for it within its paragraph. Done.

If you did that alright, you'll have an A, subject to what is quite possibloy the most awful marking in the whole British examination system, which is saying something.

Sorry about the cynicism with conclusion etc. I just don't really enjoy History any more, despite having really good teachers (which makes me feel kinda bad), but I can't be passionate about it in the way I am about my Philosophy A level (though I can see the attraction in History).

Pnl xx

thanks for that!
what kinds of jobs would a history degree or even A level be quite good for? I'm just curious

and yeh it sounds ok then, my other subjects are similar to yours im doing biology, english literature, religious studies and history after half term

does anyone have any suggestions for some good textbooks? im doing germany 1871-1914 and the lead up to the 2ww and anti-semitism.. and we have no textbooks, its hard!