AQA A Level History Paper 2 (options A to T) 7042/2N - 10 Jun 2022 [Exam Chat]

if a qu was about the biggest cause of conflict between the USSR & West how would you split it into 3 factors?

if a qu was about the biggest cause of conflict between the USSR & West how would you split it into 3 factors?

How did the exam go? Hope it went well

I thought it went pretty well! The questions were nice enough, although I think my source analysis was quite limited. Still my best exam so far

What did you write for the source question. Really struggled with that but the rest of the paper was calm.

I had source A as somewhat valuable, B as very valuable and C as less valuable. Just tried to reference provenance as much as possible and back up points with my own knowledge (I think that's where I fell down as there wasn't a great deal to say). Which essay questions did you choose?

The sources I felt like there wasn’t much to talk about personally. I did the one on Trotsky weaknesses and the USSR and the international position one

Yeah I feel the same way about the source. I feel like I'm the only one who answered the economic policies question though, everyone else I know did power struggle and international position :/

even tho i've already done my mocks, what were the questions in the Russia 2022 paper??

I did economic policies question, how did you structure it?

Oh thank god I'm not the only one haha! I did collectivisation, rapid industrialisation and new economic projects and then in each paragraph I assessed the impact on the quality of life for workers and peasants. I feel like there were a few different ways of answering it though. What factors did you use?

that's such a good way of answering it! ngl I left the exam feeling quite unconfident with what I wrote. I split it up into economic, social and political impacts for peasants and workers in each factor. so like women and working conditions for social, pay and consumer goods in economic and political just mainly talked about how their political rights were cut back and they were both used to fulfil marxist ideology, such as dekulakisation. honestly don't know how well I've done with that, was defo my weakest response. a few did that question in my class though! majority of them just split it into workers and peasants, so 2 factors.

I did economic policies question, how did you structure it?

That still sounds like a really strong response, especially if you got three factors in there! Mentioning fulfilment of Marxist ideology will definitely get you marks as well

i did this one aswell although im not sure my points were relevant enough. my first point was that the rapid industrialisation and mechanisation of the farms meant there was a decrease in intensive manual labour which improved the quality of life of workers and they could relocate to the cities. then my second point was that the legalisation of private plots meant that people could feed their families and make profit off of crops and live stock. and then my counter argument was that the dekulakisation combined with the stockpiling of grain in the drought caused workers and peasants to suffer

yeah I kinda felt like I had the same issue, but rather my points and argument wasn't strong enough. I think the strong counter argument you proposed is really good. I definitely think all your points are relevant too

hopefully we did better than we thought ahaha