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when do you choose what time period to study for history?

you take one paper of six choices in british history and one of four in european/world history - do you have to decide which immediately upon matriculation or do you choose one around exam time? i feel like it's the former but it seems like it would be difficult to choose the period without having studied all of them?

probably a stupid question but i can't find the answer anywhere. thanks!

edit: at oxford
(edited 3 years ago)
You choose before you start the course - usually the college will ask you sometime after results day.

To study all of them at an Oxford workload would be impossible.
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You aren't expected to choose all your options at the beginning of the course; as a rule, you'll have to choose your first-year options fairly early (perhaps during your first term), but you'll choose your second and third year options further down the line, once you have a better sense of how the course is structured and where your interests lead. That said, some of the choices you make in the first year will limit the options available to you in later years, so you'd want to check with your tutor that your first-year choices aren't going to prevent you doing something you're really excited about in later years.

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