OCR history B (modern world)

Did nobody else do the Russian depth study?

I could only get 2 paragraphs out of that for a 7 marker.

You don't need very much for 7 marks! One paragraph is enough you just need to put the message, details from the source and your own knowledge and explain the points you make. Read the mark scheme. i think you think GCSEs are harder than they are.

I hardly wrote anything for that exam and i wrote less for the mock but got an A*. According to the markscheme, even for 10 mark questions you only need 3 or 4 explained points plus an evalutaion for full marks. You shouldn't worry about how much you wrote at all.

For the 6 mark question on reparations what there didnt seem that much you could write.
I said how much it was and by when it would be payed and it was becuase Germany had to pay for all damage caused in the war. Couldnt think of much else to write than that. Oh, and also I talked bout how the guilt clause allowed the Big 3 to force Germany to pay the reparations.
Does this sound right?

I can't really remember that much about it so I probably didn't do that much either. I remember saying how much the reperations were (equivalent to 6600 million I think), I remember saying that they were decided upon in April 1921. And I said about the War Guilt Clause and essentially that was why they had to pay; it was thought that seen as they'd accepted responsibility for starting the war, they should technically pay for the damage it had thus caused. I said that the money would go towards rebuilding, especially in France which had been "devastated" (!) by the fighting, and I also said that the Allies would use the money to pay off their war debts. I said that this was why Germany struggled so much as well - because they'd been planning to do the same, extract money from the losers of the war, because they were so confident about winning. I threw in that because of this arrogance, they hadn't put taxes up to pay for the war, and thus, struggles a lot with the reperation installments.

For the 6 mark question on reparations what there didnt seem that much you could write.
I said how much it was and by when it would be payed and it was becuase Germany had to pay for all damage caused in the war. Couldnt think of much else to write than that. Oh, and also I talked bout how the guilt clause allowed the Big 3 to force Germany to pay the reparations.
Does this sound right?

I've been there. It's ****ing beautiful, truly. Although, it's sad, it's saturated in grave yards - filled with just more and more white crosses. We went on a History trip last year.