History..5 days :s

Yep, I'm doing AQA Britain 1906-51 too.

How's your studying going? I hate how they expect us to know the whole syllabus in detail for the 12 mark questions and in overview for the longer questions. :s

Its called Conflict and Change? i took it up as a AS this year instead of keeping all 4 A levels so its a new spec thing

We have seen past papers in class so i obviously must have known at some point... Its the course that contains Civil Rights in the USA 1945-68, Korean war, Vietnam war, Crimean war, Boer war and WW1?

Oh my god, same! It's the most ridiculous thing ever, and pretty much means that Philosophy revision has decreased to nothing, but at my school they let us pick which one to do first, and I picked History cos I'm dropping Philosophy anyways...

I'm doing 1603-1642 Lead up to British Civil War on the 2nd which is gonna kill me and Life in Nazi Germany on the 8th which isn't so bad and I have no exams inbetween so just complete Nazi revision for moi, which I'm actually interested in so will hopefully bump my grades up?! I wish we could do coursework for this.

I'm finding revision hard...

It's awful! I think i'm gonna really stryggle to remember it all tbh... there's just so much!! One of the questions my teacher gave me which was from the exam board was Asquith's government's effect on health and housing?! that's a tiny bit of the whole thing... and it was for 24 marks?!... Insania!
How's your revision going?

You should be fine with just the armstrong book.

As I mentioned the only thing it's really lacking is Erasmus and the Humanists. I was revising from it earlier and surprisingly it covered the radical reformation quite well.

It also covers other figures such as Zwinglie to so you should be fine just sticking to it.

Any chance you have typed notes? Would love to exchange!

I can type up my humanism notes if you feel they might help.

I've not got to much written down but I've basically covered what Erasmus did, his works and why humanism ultimately failed.

Only if you don't mind.. All mine are typed so I can send anything you like

Ok I've typed up the Humanism stuff.

You can see that I've not really focussed on the non Christian humanism (prior to Erasmus) seeming I don't think they're going to ask you any significant details on it. At most you probably need to know it as background info.

For the rest of them I basically tried to highlight to key functions Erasmus and the Humanists served. I've mainly focused on Erasmus as he's the only significant figure that any text books seem to mention. I'm pretty certain there are others though which I can look for later if you feel they might help.

in my opinion the exam will probably ask something along the lines of how humanism influenced the reformation. For that my notes should provide most of the info. Basically the work written by Erasmus, Greek new testament, call for reform from within ect.

Any way hope it helps.

Ok I've typed up the Humanism stuff.

You can see that I've not really focussed on the non Christian humanism (prior to Erasmus) seeming I don't think they're going to ask you any significant details on it. At most you probably need to know it as background info.

For the rest of them I basically tried to highlight to key functions Erasmus and the Humanists served. I've mainly focused on Erasmus as he's the only significant figure that any text books seem to mention. I'm pretty certain there are others though which I can look for later if you feel they might help.

in my opinion the exam will probably ask something along the lines of how humanism influenced the reformation. For that my notes should provide most of the info. Basically the work written by Erasmus, Greek new testament, call for reform from within ect.

Any way hope it helps.

Ok guys thought a few questions were in order for the reformation, each question was a 24 mark question.

The length of the questions will most likely be halfed or even more in the real test so pay no attention to the size or my poor writing skills. The main thing to get from this is interpretations, simply another view point on the subject thus allowing you to use them in similar questions in the real thing for bonus marks.

I think we should really band together before Tuesday like creating revision notes for each other and other funky stuff. Know it would help me preparing and reading other peoples notes and viewpoints.

Enjoy people.

My major worry is over the grade boundaries to be honest. For my mock, it was 42 for an A for the non-source paper and 48 or something like that for the source paper, which was the january boundaries.

How much are they likely to go up by for these exams? If they stay the same I'll be fine, I got 52 and 49 respectively and although I've revised a lot more for the real I'm terrified that the boundaries will be like 65 for an A or something ridiculous like that