19th JUNE EDEXCEL HISTORY 3A - War and transformation of British Society 1903-1928

Any ideas on what will come up?

What came up in January this year, does anyone know?


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The Battle of the Somme, new weaponry, tanks, artillery etc. so basically that rules out most of key topic 2 as there has already been one on the beginning of the war too


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Only just started looking at this after the Germany exam on Monday. My bet's on suffragettes - how about you?

Suffragettes, labour exchanges/national insurance, DORA, maybe changing role of women? Perhaps the end of the war but i doubt it because the january paper was key topic 2


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I know my question doesn't really have that much to do with this, but for history are the grade boundaries fixed.
Like:
90% A*
80% A etc etc

It seems as though Edexcel is keeping the grade boundaries for history the same for every paper, which is seriously unfair.

But does anyone know if it's for sure for or do you think Edexcel will change the boundaries according to how students perform this year?

I've looked into this more and the UMS boundary is fixed. However the UMS conversion is different each sitting of the exam.

Jan 2013 49/54 = 90 UMS = A*
45/54 = 80 UMS = A
June 2012 43/50 = 90 UMS = A*
39/50 = 80 UMS = A

Basically you have to get 360 UMS over the 4 units for an A*, 320 for an A

Obviously you don't know the controlled assessment UMS but the other units you should know your UMS so you should be able to work out roughly what more you need to get the desired grade if you just take the controlled assessment % to UMS. UMS usually brings the percentage up so hopefully this is the maximum you have to achieve.

e.g. if you get 86 UMS in Unit 1, 90 in Unit 2 and an average of 85% in the controlled assessment then your predicted total is 261. You'd need 99 UMS to get an A* and only 59 for an A.

I hope this clears things up

Hi!
On paper 1 i got 91 -A*
Paper 2 80 -A
Coursework i got 45/50

Can someone tell me what i need on paper 3 for an A* overall if thats possible and if not, then for an A?

Thanks!

I'm slightly confused though.

unit 1: i think i got 54/60 which was an A*
unit 2: paper was out of 50- the results sheet said 80/100 (A)
unit 4: 42/50 (A)

I was told that even if I got a C unit 3 I'd get an A, but I would not be able to get an A* even if I got 100%. Looking at the raw to ums conversation chart it seems like it is possible. I don't know if I'm looking at it differently or maybe they take percentages so like unit one was 94% so as it was over 90% it was A*.
Really wanted to get that A* but now I'm just confused and a bit put off.

This isnt definite because they havent released the conversions for the coursework but you need to get full marks to get an A* (have fun!) and about 60% for an A, these are maximum though as ums can bring the mark up

It depends if the ums convesrion brings your unit 4 up, if it remains the same you need to get 102% though... To get an A you need 62% i think

Any last minute predictions on the topic that tomorrow will bring?


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Personally i think the General Strike.


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