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

Thank you so much! I just finished my mocks and got an A in history, literally 2 marks from an A*. I do democracy and nazism and Stuart Britain. I do crusades for my coursework. Hopefully I can secure an A* this time next year! I hope the same for you! You’ve worked incredibly hard. Enjoy your break

Also if you can remember, what was the third source about??

Completely agree.

Also Source C was so odd and source B was a bit too with talks of a counter revolution and then a revolution as well! So weird I just tried to use whatever knowledge I had. But I agree- it’s hard to nail source questions because you have to be really careful with how you interpret it and that only comes with practice.

I mentioned in a previous post that it was quite confusing and I think @hamlethoratio is right. But from what I remember it was from one of the SPD leading members trying to reassure Germans that the sparcists uprising wouldn’t succeed and the new republic army would help protect Germany. At least that’s what I took from it but nailing source questions is really important like I said before

Ooo we interpreted in the same way so that’s a good sign haha!

Yeah same I think source A was quite nice (but even then I found myself drawing upon some odd knowledge haha) but source B and C were a lot more confusing and personally I had to read it so many times.

Definitely and I hope I interpreted that source correctly but I read it a few times so hopefully!

I also did the foreign policy question but argued foreign policy was very successful and based points on the policy of fulfilment- Stresemann did strengthen Germany's international poisition
Source A was good, source B was okay but I did not like source C wasn't clear.
But that is history done forever now and it is what it is. Hopefully we all did well!

Yeah same here I had to read source C quite a few times lol. Hopefully we both did well.
All I care about is getting at least an A so I can get into uni

for me I really liked source A and C - I thought source C was a gov speech trying to stop ppl from supporting the Spartacist Uprising? I also did not like source B :/
Yeah i'm lowkey really glad history is over and done with so I can focus on the rest of A-Levels now haha

I saw source C as both encouraging the people that the government can put down the uprising but also trying to get their support as it said that thing about the working class uniting against the communists (I did those as my two content points)

Source A was my favourite, I quite liked source B but it was a bit weird.

Yeah I used source C to highlight how the gov was dependent on both the army and the people for survival (e.g. trying to emphasise how the 'gov' has the army and that they will provide stability) - i also talked about how they addressed workers, citizens, soldiers - e.g massive chunk of population that is being targeted by the spartacists!
but I think the exam went decently so I'm not too stressed - the only thing I'm a little worried abt is the source provenance as I didn't talk abt tone much but I tried talking abt everything else

You could reference the tone and the way they talked about the Spartacists due to the fact the Constituent Assembly elections was two days later - they wanted to gain support