Higher History 2013-2014 Thread

Neither am I funnily enough! Lucky you! Next year I will be studying about Russia, as far as I know we'll be covering the 'Cold War', the Bolsheviks, communism and Soviet Russia I took advanced bio and chem too, not sure if I will cope, haha

Fair enough. I was actually recommended to do this by my teacher, and I had only recommended it because I had gained success with this method.

That sounds like a brilliant topic! Love learning about Russia and stuff like that. For advanced we do the American Civil War which I have absolutely no interest in hah! That sounds like an awful lot of work, good luck

I also only revised three essays per unit. I thought it better to have three strong essays as to six weaker essays. I did this for both the preliminary exam and the final exam; both were fine.

I just emailed the sqa to ask them so we'll see what they say. in sure by the first line in the answer they'll know what topic you're doing to I wouldn't give it too much thought

Okay: attention anyone worrying about not writing question numbers or whatever!! (I don't take history, I have no idea what you were meant to write...) My mum is the chief invigilator at my school; just so you know, the chief invigilator (i.e the person who packages it all away etc) should have checked whether or not you wrote the right stuff in terms of candidate number, topic etc. If you forgot, they will add it in. Also, even if they didn't SQA won't penalise you (apart form anything, the sheer number of people who forget each year would have massive swathes of people who fail without reason). Worst case scenario, if you forgot AND your invigilator didn't check, you've caused some extra admin for someone. That's all - please don't worry.

Thank you! You too with your advanced english

Thanks pal!

What else are you doing?

Question for anyone!

In comparison questions, are you supposed to add in pieces of your own knowledge after you have stated where sources agree/disagree?
I have always added in one or two sentences at the end of each of my four comparisons of my own recall just to expand on the points the sources make...

If thats wrong, will i lose marks? Im freaking out a bit!

This is SQA

Fair enough. I was actually recommended to do this by my teacher, and I had only recommended it because I had gained success with this method.

the relief when i saw the word suffragettes in that paper today! It went as well as it could have gone for me

I too am beyond angry that no Nazi questions appeared today. My teacher has always told us that we should always revise both Liberal/Labour Reforms and both Rise of the Nazis/Nazi state as at least one of each topic will DEFINITELY appear. She has been teaching 10+ years so knows what she is talking about. The topics we do for our European Section is Italian Unification/Nationalism which I'm completely clueless about but had no option but to write a half-hearted attempt at this essay. After the exam both History teachers in the department came down to see how we got on and when we told them, they were outraged. They are even attempting to contact the SQA to see what they can do over their lack of consideration. We don't cover German Unification in our school so both Higher Classes were left no option but to do Italy which 85% of us were not happy about!

However, Paper 2 (Migration & Empire 1830-1939) was an excellent paper and Women with the Vote went well. I'm just hoping that my women essay combined with Paper 2 and my Extended Essay is enough to get me my target grade - which is B.

can anybody tell me what points of recall they used for the question 'how far does source A explain edwards resolution of the great cause?' thanks