Russia Synoptic OCR module 1855-1956: revision notes?

Thank you

That's reassured me a bit now. I've only just started revising because i don't need to do incredibly well in this paper, so I started to panic hahaa. I just dont like writing in the themes. Actually, I just dont like Russia. End of. (:

What's the worst that can happen? Welllll, in this paper, half the year can get a U, 1 person get an A and I'll possibly get the worst grade I've ever gotten in an exam. OH WAAIIITTT, that happened in January, lmao.

And then the history department had to cheek to tell US that we didnt revise enough?! Merrrr.

Good luck for tomorrow. You'll do well if you're that prepared, haha. :smile:

Reply 21

sir-lewis

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Charlurr

Thank you

That's reassured me a bit now. I've only just started revising because i don't need to do incredibly well in this paper, so I started to panic hahaa. I just dont like writing in the themes. Actually, I just dont like Russia. End of. (:

What's the worst that can happen? Welllll, in this paper, half the year can get a U, 1 person get an A and I'll possibly get the worst grade I've ever gotten in an exam. OH WAAIIITTT, that happened in January, lmao.

And then the history department had to cheek to tell US that we didnt revise enough?! Merrrr.

Good luck for tomorrow. You'll do well if you're that prepared, haha. :smile:

Yep seems you've been taught correctly by the sounds of it then :biggrin:

I love the feeling of not having to do well to meet your grade, had it in psychology after doing pretty well in the others.
With this i got AAC last year, plus an A in my coursework, but i screwed up usa the other day which im looking at an E/D so a C/B in russia should get me my B overall. Fingers crossed ay.
Good luck to you and everyone else aswell.

Reply 22

Reedy

Well, I'm bricking it right now, but what I've tried to do, is get some generic titles down, that could use for any essay, say Ideology, or Repression etc, and give an example of change and continuity for Tsars vs Communists, and then each leader in turn underneath that. This means you can actually get away with not knowing loads, but so long as you have some clever examples, then your sorted.

This means a simple set of titles, such as;

Strengths of government:
- control of means of coercion (army, police, secret police)
- restriction of civil liberties (freedom of speech/association/movement)
- one party state/lack of political involvement

Then you would add one example to each title, for example, you have the Tsars sporadic use of the secret police, and it was an institution that had only a few thousand members, and then compare that to Lenin, who setup the Cheka within 6 weeks of taking power, and by mid-1918 Cheka had a size of 40,000. So showing that communists much more aggressively sought to limit civil liberties, and have a tighter control over the means of coercion. So basically a Tsar vs Communist example for each theme there is! Aie!

So I'm currently writing as much as I can on one A4 sheet of paper, that covers all the possible themes, and gives an example for each one. If I get time, I'll try and whazz it all up here, but otherwise, that gives you an idea of how I'm revising, and making notes for it. But jikes! I've got friggin maths and chemistry to worry about for tomorrow as well :frown:

Reply 23

Sachlee

i have maths and chemistry tomorrow too!its horrible

Reply 24

stargirl001

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I'm really quited worried about this now. I just don't think I've got the technique right and I know I never use enough detail.

Looord. I've had a false sense of confidence up until this point and now I'm terrified :frown:

good luck everybody!

Im praying for a question on peasents and then mabey a turning point Q too

Reply 27

Budgie

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FEM

Im praying for a question on peasents and then mabey a turning point Q too

Turning point questions are gash! But I would like peasants. And opposition. Or a nice one on Romanov Tsars to Red Tsars.

Reply 28

student_s

lol gosh I hope they ask about peasants, if not im screwed, I haven't been able to absorb anything! Also don't panic too much because at least we have a timeline!! Hopefully it'll refresh our memories!!

Reply 29

Kristenellen

Haha it cannot refresh my memory... as my memory does not know it in the first place!
Ahhh i guess its a long night in with Stalin for me tonight... the joy! xx

Reply 30

Charlurr

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I'm ****ed. Just thought I'd let you all know.

How did it go??

this was horrific.. reason being i thought i could get by with just the timeline and no revision as ive been revising economics synoptic tomorrow- well my theory well and truely failed! x

Reply 34

Kristenellen

Hahaha, i revised for an Hour this morning.. I believe a two year old could have made a better go of it than I did! haha x

Reply 35

Charlurr

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Same! My technique was about as complicated as doing a **** ^_^

Reply 36

Sachlee

mine was dire,i didnt pay attention to the bit in bold :most important factor,bollllocks.turning points wasnt too bad though.arghhhhhhhhhh historys over for everybody right :biggrin:

Reply 37

TeeJ_x

I thought that was really easy :-S lol

Reply 38

sir-lewis

11

Ah it could have been worse, shame the peasants didnt come up.
For the working and living conditions question about alex II doing the best, i kind of used alot (majority) about the peasants conditions, similar to the actual peasant essay, is this allright do you think or what should i or did you write about.
The reason for reform wernt too bad either i guess.

Reply 39

62169

SO GLAD THATS OVER
i thought it a logical idea to devote 11pm to 6am this morning to revising both crime and deviance sociology and 100 years of russian history

naturally i done sociology, then after revising an hour of alexander II, i fell asleep at 4am...

couldnt believe my luck when he came up, but i made hardly any comparisons, droned on about the peasants emancipation for far too long then made some very very very brief and misguided points about his great reforms, leaving myself twenty minutes for the reason for reform essay

U-ville for moi!

Russia Synoptic OCR module 1855-1956: revision notes?

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