OCR A-Level History Unit 1 (Y101-Y113) - 9th June 2023 [Exam Chat]

i did first para was it was successful- talked about his rex pacificus and treaty of london 1604 and cleves de julich and qualified with oh but wasn’t successful cos war still broke out and enemy this that
second one was about thirty years war and how the foreign policy was unsuccessful
last one was about the spanish match and the failures
and overall unsuccessful
i wanted to do religon 😭 but i had no clue what did you say?

para on problems from catholics, talking about like how he responded to the gunpowder plot and him issuing the book of sports, him finding a spanish match etc and how he was generally tolerant of them concluding his religious toleration was successful at reducing catholic threat from plots

para on problems from puritans, the millenary petition and how he dealt w it with the hampton court conference, and then puritan response to his policies like the book of sports and religious toleration, concluded that he didn’t keep them perfectly happy but it was overall successful as he didn’t face any major puritan threats apart from disputes in parliament

para on problems from arminians which was harder but talked about like the rise in arminianism, appointment of arminians into his privy council etc and said he was successful at responding to growth in arminianism (talked a bit about puritan MPs reaction to this etc.)

so i concluded he’s successful as he was able to like reduce threats from each group i think it was alright

Guys for later tudors I picked the 3rd q (social and economic problems 1588-1603), are these good points?
- Poverty
- Inflation
- Class divisions (talked about purveyance and monopolies here)

para on problems from catholics, talking about like how he responded to the gunpowder plot and him issuing the book of sports, him finding a spanish match etc and how he was generally tolerant of them concluding his religious toleration was successful at reducing catholic threat from plots

para on problems from puritans, the millenary petition and how he dealt w it with the hampton court conference, and then puritan response to his policies like the book of sports and religious toleration, concluded that he didn’t keep them perfectly happy but it was overall successful as he didn’t face any major puritan threats apart from disputes in parliament

para on problems from arminians which was harder but talked about like the rise in arminianism, appointment of arminians into his privy council etc and said he was successful at responding to growth in arminianism (talked a bit about puritan MPs reaction to this etc.)

so i concluded he’s successful as he was able to like reduce threats from each group i think it was alright

i did first para was it was successful- talked about his rex pacificus and treaty of london 1604 and cleves de julich and qualified with oh but wasn’t successful cos war still broke out and enemy this that
second one was about thirty years war and how the foreign policy was unsuccessful
last one was about the spanish match and the failures
and overall unsuccessful
i wanted to do religon 😭 but i had no clue what did you say?

Yeah I chose the foreign policy one as well. It seemed a lot more straightforwards than the religion one. Document Question I said sources A and D agreed whereas B and C didn't really agree.

Yeah I chose the foreign policy one as well. It seemed a lot more straightforwards than the religion one. Document Question I said sources A and D agreed whereas B and C didn't really agree.

oh my days thank goodness cos i got scared that C supports i guess you could really write it how you wanted. what was your however points like if they didn’t support what was the argument

I was super confused by source C too but said it partially supports 😬 I said that source A and B's argument was that Charles was responsible and D's was that some of the army were responsible but due to divisions not fully.

For Tudors that source question was definitely 'something'. The sources got gradually worse and worse, what on earth was source D, I think it was talking about the state of Churches before visitations were made with Protestants trashing the place beyond repair or that it was very neglected, especially considering it was in 1557 at the end of Mary's reign. No idea what to write about provenance for that one though.

The Pitt to Peel questions were lovely

Sources on Corn Law repeal were great, essay on Pitt's economic and trade policies also amazing.

The other essay on the Peninsula War seemed a lot harder but didn't have to do it so alls good.

also sorry for bothering what we’re your like however points that oh it wasn’t the army becuse i said it was charles attitudes himself

The dead cat one was such bs there were barely any facts you could use.
Hardly any provenance you could do for any of them except source A tbh. Really would've expected Renard and Foxe in a question like that.

also… what do you guys normally get in terms of marks at skl because our teacher is super strict so i never have a sense of what i’m working at

very varied, i’m predicted an A* but don’t generally do well on the source questions (prediction based off our y12 mock which was done on an interpretation question and a 20 marker) , i got 14 on the first one i attempted and the highest one that’s been marked i’ve done is 23, i got 21 for y13 mock
generally i do better on the 20 markers and get like strong level 5s/level 6s so like 15-18

i see it’s only cos our teacher she’s acc a psycho once i literally just to see if she’s annoying copied a full exemplar and she gave me 11 on the 20 marker like i honestly do not know what she wants 😭 and for the interpretation i get 20 all the time it’s so annoying and she’s always like people get A* in the real thing you’ll be shocked like maybe that’s because of your marking… telling us the entire 2 years we have not improved

For Tudors that source question was definitely 'something'. The sources got gradually worse and worse, what on earth was source D, I think it was talking about the state of Churches before visitations were made with Protestants trashing the place beyond repair or that it was very neglected, especially considering it was in 1557 at the end of Mary's reign. No idea what to write about provenance for that one though.