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Higher history essay question prediction sqa 2024

does anyone have any predictions for the essay question for USA and BRITIAN? if so please do tell. i have my exam in 3 days and ive learnt 2/8 essays.

ALSO if anyone has any predictions for history about anything else PLEASE DO TELL

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This year they are only giving us 3 questions for each part so I would say try to get at least 7/8 done or all of them since there will be limited choices, they could pick any so just revise all.
You don't need to memorise, just have 2K points for each factor, 2A and one A+, this is what I do and I usually get 18/22 which is good also remember in your A and A+ to relate back to the question. I wouldn't bother with evaluation,its just a waste of time, do it only if you're confident in your timing.

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Original post by Jdfsd,f
does anyone have any predictions for the essay question for USA and BRITIAN? if so please do tell. i have my exam in 3 days and ive learnt 2/8 essays.
ALSO if anyone has any predictions for history about anything else PLEASE DO TELL

I think it will be liberal reforms and changing attitudes towards immigration- good luck for in 5 hours time!

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Original post by Randombean
I think it will be liberal reforms and changing attitudes towards immigration- good luck for in 5 hours time!

I think it's liberal as well! But I'm not sure wether it's effectiveness or reasons. Do you know which one it would most likely be?

Reply 4

what do you think the essays for this year are for usa and britain

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Original post by future2828
what do you think the essays for this year are for usa and britain


i think britain may be vote for women? i don’t think it’s gonna be labour reforms, which sucks bcs i done that for my assignment, as its come up the past 3 years in a row

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Original post by future2828
what do you think the essays for this year are for usa and britain

i think women in britain will be one of them, but not sure

Reply 7

what about usa

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How likely do you guys think the labour reforms to come up will be? I have revised women and the vote, reasons and effectiveness of the liberal reforms and that's it so far. I really am trying to avoid revising for the labour reforms because i really don't know if it will come up :frown:

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Original post by Jdfsd,f
does anyone have any predictions for the essay question for USA and BRITIAN? if so please do tell. i have my exam in 3 days and ive learnt 2/8 essays.
ALSO if anyone has any predictions for history about anything else PLEASE DO TELL

Hey, I'm doing my higher history this year and I was hoping people could give me advice I'm so used to just memorising the marking instructions so the essay section is really throwing me off because I don't want to memorise all 8 essays but I don't know any other method. If anyone could tell me how they studied for it and how many days it took to do with how many hours a day that would be amazing because I'm trying to create a revision timetable and I have no idea how to study for the essay section or how long it will take. My parents have mega high expectations of me and I'm so scared that I can't do it and I've left studying for it quite late.

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Original post by IonaJH
Hey, I'm doing my higher history this year and I was hoping people could give me advice I'm so used to just memorising the marking instructions so the essay section is really throwing me off because I don't want to memorise all 8 essays but I don't know any other method. If anyone could tell me how they studied for it and how many days it took to do with how many hours a day that would be amazing because I'm trying to create a revision timetable and I have no idea how to study for the essay section or how long it will take. My parents have mega high expectations of me and I'm so scared that I can't do it and I've left studying for it quite late.


Sorry for the really long paragraph. Memorising 8 essays is the only way to make sure you’re guaranteed a question can come up that you can answer, as i’m assuming you’ve already been told. If you really don’t want to do all 8, i would recommend looking at past papers and trying to predict what would come up. However, this is very risky and as im sure you know, will not guarantee that what you predict will come up. I would recommend to focus on your assessment essays, as they only have three factors to memorise, rather than five. My teacher told us that if we are really struggling, we can just learn three factors fully for each essay, as long as we know the knowledge for the other two factors as you would get capped for not addressing the isolated factor. Evaluation also isn’t a necessity, so you can get away with just memorising your two points then your analysis for and against

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Original post by lh44solos
Sorry for the really long paragraph. Memorising 8 essays is the only way to make sure you’re guaranteed a question can come up that you can answer, as i’m assuming you’ve already been told. If you really don’t want to do all 8, i would recommend looking at past papers and trying to predict what would come up. However, this is very risky and as im sure you know, will not guarantee that what you predict will come up. I would recommend to focus on your assessment essays, as they only have three factors to memorise, rather than five. My teacher told us that if we are really struggling, we can just learn three factors fully for each essay, as long as we know the knowledge for the other two factors as you would get capped for not addressing the isolated factor. Evaluation also isn’t a necessity, so you can get away with just memorising your two points then your analysis for and against

Wdym by memorising 8 essays, do we not need to know all the conetent?

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Original post by Fazyomama
Wdym by memorising 8 essays, do we not need to know all the conetent?

Usually your teachers only teach you a total of 8 essays

Reply 13

Original post by Nessy_1313
Usually your teachers only teach you a total of 8 essays

They didn't teach me any 😕

Reply 14

how r u gonna do the exam then if they haven’t taught u any

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Original post by Fazyomama
They didn't teach me any 😕


there should be some online!! what topics are you doing?? i could help you try and find some resources/essays :smile:

Reply 16

does anyone have any tips for paper 2? i’m doing migration and empire

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Original post by Jdfsd,f
does anyone have any predictions for the essay question for USA and BRITIAN? if so please do tell. i have my exam in 3 days and ive learnt 2/8 essays.
ALSO if anyone has any predictions for history about anything else PLEASE DO TELL

stop learnings essays and watch Watch the Simpsons 🏳️*⚧️🇺🇲🦅🧑*🦲

Reply 18

Original post by avaaaaaaa008
does anyone have any tips for paper 2? i’m doing migration and empire
for migration and empire i practiced a lot of the question types and made flashcards for all the knowledge needed by using the marking instructions because I don't know about you but my teacher thought us to make big huge paragraphs to get one mark but if you memorise the marking instructions you will find that the answers needed are much smaller than you think. What helped me a lot was memorising the flashcards and then doing past papers to actually put into practice what I had learned and to see which points I was missing more often than others to make sure I remembered them I'm not sure I can think of anything else tell me if you want more specific information.

Reply 19

What does everything think the topics will be for Germany ?? I’m hoping for nazis but tonnes of people are saying it’ll be unification. Do you think it’s worth revising unification? It’s my weakest essay icl and I can’t find any good examples anywhere

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