AH History study help
Okay unsurprisingly this is gonna be about Advanced Higher English but any tips from A level students is also appreciated. Also for context I am currently studying the antebellum period in America and the civil war itself.
Basically I have mocks some point during January and I’m already behind in revising for history because I haven’t started yet, but I have no idea how to purely because of the sheer amount of content. Last year for higher I wrote a practice essay on every single question I could be asked but obviously that isn’t possible for AH or else I’d be writing essays until I’m 90
Anyone got any tips or advice on how I should go about studying or what worked for them? Also if anyone has any essays I can see for an example that would be brilliant, my teacher hasn’t taught us how to write one for AH and I’m currently just guessing what I’m doing
Basically I have mocks some point during January and I’m already behind in revising for history because I haven’t started yet, but I have no idea how to purely because of the sheer amount of content. Last year for higher I wrote a practice essay on every single question I could be asked but obviously that isn’t possible for AH or else I’d be writing essays until I’m 90
Anyone got any tips or advice on how I should go about studying or what worked for them? Also if anyone has any essays I can see for an example that would be brilliant, my teacher hasn’t taught us how to write one for AH and I’m currently just guessing what I’m doing
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by Person839572Okay unsurprisingly this is gonna be about Advanced Higher English but any tips from A level students is also appreciated. Also for context I am currently studying the antebellum period in America and the civil war itself.
Basically I have mocks some point during January and I’m already behind in revising for history because I haven’t started yet, but I have no idea how to purely because of the sheer amount of content. Last year for higher I wrote a practice essay on every single question I could be asked but obviously that isn’t possible for AH or else I’d be writing essays until I’m 90
Anyone got any tips or advice on how I should go about studying or what worked for them? Also if anyone has any essays I can see for an example that would be brilliant, my teacher hasn’t taught us how to write one for AH and I’m currently just guessing what I’m doing
Basically I have mocks some point during January and I’m already behind in revising for history because I haven’t started yet, but I have no idea how to purely because of the sheer amount of content. Last year for higher I wrote a practice essay on every single question I could be asked but obviously that isn’t possible for AH or else I’d be writing essays until I’m 90
Anyone got any tips or advice on how I should go about studying or what worked for them? Also if anyone has any essays I can see for an example that would be brilliant, my teacher hasn’t taught us how to write one for AH and I’m currently just guessing what I’m doing
I completely winged AH English and got an A even though I was convinced I was going to get a C. For starters focus on you course work- that's 60% of your grade and even though it feels wrong it should be your central focus.
Secondly TA is impossible and nobody knows what their doing tbh. My one piece of advice is find a central theme and run with it. They don't care if it's right but more your justification and analysis- its about making the best with what you have in front of you. Just go wild with the imagery.
Critical essay is actually not as hard as it seems but it took me a while to crack it. But the secret is basically identify again two main themes in each piece of literature you analyse and make these work. I did Ibsens ‘A dolls house’ and ‘enemy of the people’ so identified a key theme to be power and in a dolls house that game from the patriarchy and enemy of the people it came from capitalism. I then found secondary quotes yjat matched these and put these in the essay. I only had two quotes but it shows your engagement in the text.
Good luck and if you need any other advice Fr English or history just ask
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