-
Finished your HSC? Check out our University Discussion, Non-School forums or help out next year's HSC students! -
YOU can help the next generation of students in the community! Share your trial papers and notes on our Notes & Resources page
General Thoughts: Modern History (2 Viewers)
- Thread starter Rafy
- Start date
latashyoussef
New Member
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2010
- Messages
- 4
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2011
Yeah it was the gas I'm pretty sure because chlorine gas was used at Ypres in 1915, which is pretty early in the war. So you're right, but not for the reason you said haha...
Skyzor
Member
My teacher said it was the gauze because it is a pretty primitive 'mask', thus early on in the war.
latashyoussef
New Member
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2010
- Messages
- 4
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2011
Did anyone do the significance of D Day and the liberation of France in bringing about the end of the conflict in Europe? Like 99% of the people in my school did the League of Nations (except me) haha
USA. The Hoover and Roosevelt was so good! What one did you do mate?
slyhunter
Retired
- Joined
- May 17, 2009
- Messages
- 6,803
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- 2011
Mid 70s (?)
tnks sly
repped.kev-is-red
Member
- Joined
- Oct 22, 2011
- Messages
- 105
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- N/A
Raw mark of 76 aligned to exam mark of 82 last year.tnks sly
A pretty generic paper, the hardest part was WWI in all honesty.
WWI - the multiple choice was pretty challenging, for the Ypres photo I answered the gauze option. What did everybody answer for the aviation source? I chose the one that it impacted mobility or something like that.
Trotsky - first question was pretty easy, chose the joining of the bolshevik party, the civil war and the power struggle with lenin.
b was pretty generic as well, just a basic recount of events with analysis of Trotsky's impact.
Russia - bos couldnt have been more generous with the stalinism question, couldnt be easier
Conflict in the Pacific - did the occupation question, that was pretty easy as well.
Overall pretty happy with the paper, finished just 1 minute before the 3 hour mark. And one more thing, did bos actually put in the past papers the advice about length of the answers? I mean the 1000 word/8 page thing. I wrote about 4-4.5 pages for each question, but they are all just above 1000 words.
WWI - the multiple choice was pretty challenging, for the Ypres photo I answered the gauze option. What did everybody answer for the aviation source? I chose the one that it impacted mobility or something like that.
Trotsky - first question was pretty easy, chose the joining of the bolshevik party, the civil war and the power struggle with lenin.
b was pretty generic as well, just a basic recount of events with analysis of Trotsky's impact.
Russia - bos couldnt have been more generous with the stalinism question, couldnt be easier
Conflict in the Pacific - did the occupation question, that was pretty easy as well.
Overall pretty happy with the paper, finished just 1 minute before the 3 hour mark. And one more thing, did bos actually put in the past papers the advice about length of the answers? I mean the 1000 word/8 page thing. I wrote about 4-4.5 pages for each question, but they are all just above 1000 words.
The words thing came in last year.
Skyzor
Member
Yea it was the lack of mobility option because of all the craters from bombardment, barbed wire etc.
D94
New Member
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2011
- Messages
- 4,423
- Gender
- Male
- HSC
- N/A
I don't think people were "tricked", but rather oversaw the amount of content which was needed to answer the question.
This is true. The Bolshevik consolidation is a much bigger topic and requires more analysis than Stalinism, therefore Stalinism was more popular.
Glorious
Member
- Joined
- Sep 20, 2011
- Messages
- 219
- Gender
- Female
- HSC
- 2011
Lol - pretty good memory I have here. We cant even take the papers home! =/
Skyzor
Member
Same here !!, I went along with consolidation of power as most of my preparation was focused around the first part of the syllabus. You were not completely confined to Lenin, you could also bring in Trotsky and the Kronstadt sailors so yeah plenty to discuss
Thats nice mate, but i just said it as a statement, I actually did Stalinism cos i found it easierSame here !!, I went along with consolidation of power as most of my preparation was focused around the first part of the syllabus. You were not completely confined to Lenin, you could also bring in Trotsky and the Kronstadt sailors so yeah plenty to discuss
juliastegner
Member
- Joined
- Jul 7, 2009
- Messages
- 77
- Gender
- Undisclosed
- HSC
- 2011
crap if we said the masks were urine socks do we get marks taken off T_T
Skyzor
Member
Lol, fair enough. At least people found one or the other easy lolThats nice mate, but i just said it as a statement, I actually did Stalinism cos i found it easier
Nope, it actually did occur. Marker might think you have an in-depth knowledge
But you did have to refer to the guaze somewhere.
Do markers make a big deal if you write with a blue pen cos black pen is preferred? Midway through my last essay my pen ran out, had only one backup pen which was blue and didnt have time to ask markers cos it would take them 2 minutes to come to my seat and ill lose time, so i just got my blue pen and used it. Do they really care what colour it is? My last essay is half black half blue