General A level History help (OLD SPEC)

Does anyone do AQA A-level History; the british empire breadth study and loss of the american colonies depth study?

I'm currently doing the British Empire for breadth, but the Cold War for depth.

finally! how is it going for you? what section are you on? I feel like its very different and difficult as there is such a large time span to cover and so the questions can literally be limitless, whereas, in the depth study you can prepare essay plans for the questions as there is a limited bank of questions for each section.

Im doing the british empire and the cold war

Is anyone else doing Edexcel A2 Unit 3 'Kaiser to Führer'? I was just wondering what others doing this exam think are the more likely topics to come up in Part A and Part B. To me, it seems like the Weimar Republic and the World War Two topic are more likely to appear, seeing as they were not in last years paper? For Part B surely Origins of the First World War will come up again this year, and then perhaps the Popularity of the Nazis. I will be revising all the topics, but it would be nice to get an idea of which topics to focus more on, especially because of the amount of stuff there is to remember!

I am! In terms of the exam, my teacher has told us that the Wiemar Republic has a 90% chance of coming up, with World War Two has a 50% chance (if you look at the past questions/years they came up in)

How are you feeling about the course?

Yes that would make sense. This exam is probably the one I am most worried about at the moment, just because of the amount of stuff there is to remember as well as the fact that I still haven't completely got to grips with the exam technique (and in practice questions I always seem to run out of time!)
How are you finding it?

Definitely on the same boat as you in terms of just how much information we're expected to remember! In terms of timing I'm still not the great, I don't really feel confident with that but I'm sure (hoping) that will change! It's my first exam so I guess that's a good and a bad thing.

Need to get an A for my uni offer so that's just adding extra nerves! How did you find the coursework section?

I'm glad the coursework is out the way now to be honest (getting it under the word count was a pain), although saying that I probably prefer coursework over exams, just because you can be a bit more sure of the grade you're going to get. I'm hoping to get a B in the coursework and then a B overall. Has your class finished going through the course yet?
Also what grade did you get at AS for history, and what uni are you hoping to go to, if you don't mind me asking?

Definitely - I think I was 6 words under the total wordcount at the end of it! I prefer coursework knowing that you have control over your grade (due to being able to work on it over a period of time) but I hate the continued stress, whereas with exams once it's done, it's done!

We just finished before the holidays but I feel like we've rushed it all for some reason.

For AS I got an A. I've firmed Cambridge and put Warwick as my insurance - so I better get revising aha. How about you?

I'm hoping to get an A overall, although getting a B in the exam at this point would be a godsend but then maybe my coursework could pull it up.

I'm currently doing the British Empire for breadth, but the Cold War for depth.

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I'm doing OCR AS level history and wondering if anyone has any predictions about what the 20 marker might be?