Ancient History Predictions/Thoughts (2 Viewers)

[Cute-Duckie]

source E was an extract from professor wallace hadrill, who started the Herculaneum conservation project. basically a massive archaeological project in Herculaneum aimed at restoring the town through funding, as the town received even less international funding than pompeii and was neglected.

even if you didn’t get to study him, all you really needed to know is that he was talking about how Herculaneum by comparison has far less public buildings which makes studying its public life a bit more difficult. but you can make inferences from the bathhouses and the theater that’s there as well as the absence of many public buildings to show the wealth of the town

yeah ty, i talked about how it has less public buildings so it makes it harder but i just feel like it didnt link to the question as much yk

 

[nitroexcalibur]

how many pages did you guys smash thru for section 4? historical periods

 

[Cute-Duckie]

how many pages did you guys smash thru for section 4? historical periods

i didnt do enough, i wrote like 4 pages of actual stuff and then an extra page and a half of yap (i think im cooked)

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

i didnt do enough, i wrote like 4 pages of actual stuff and then an extra page and a half of yap (i think im cooked)

omg this is so real, i feel like the essay qs were a bit weird this yr but that may have js been my section

 

[Cute-Duckie]

omg this is so real, i feel like the essay qs were a bit weird this yr but that may have js been my section

yeah my selection was weird too, what did u do?
(i did greek world)

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

yeah my selection was weird too, what did u do?
(i did greek world)

i did new kingdom egypt to the death of ramesses iii, IMO i feel like there just wasn't that much to talk about for the qs they give

 

[Cute-Duckie]

i did new kingdom egypt to the death of ramesses iii, IMO i feel like there just wasn't that much to talk about for the qs they give

yeah same, ngl for the second one i think there was a bit more (but i wasnt familiar with that part of the syllabus lol do i didnt do it), but then for the first question it was assessing victory or smth in 2/5 battles (all 5 battles are in the one dot point)
like that was so narrow what

 

[ralph22]

Idk if this will help last minute, but i walked pas my schools printing room and my mate in the year below took the paper. Pompeii is on animal remains and eruption, also essay is 2 delian league questions for essay and part is role of women lowley so weird but hope this helps guys

Screw you dude

 

[Cute-Duckie]

yeah same, ngl for the second one i think there was a bit more (but i wasnt familiar with that part of the syllabus lol do i didnt do it), but then for the first question it was assessing victory or smth in 2/5 battles (all 5 battles are in the one dot point)
like that was so narrow what

and its not even the two most important battles, its just two mid ones

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

yeah same, ngl for the second one i think there was a bit more (but i wasnt familiar with that part of the syllabus lol do i didnt do it), but then for the first question it was assessing victory or smth in 2/5 battles (all 5 battles are in the one dot point)
like that was so narrow what

yeah, i did the second q for my section, but for the first q it was like evaluate the role of post amarna pharaohs up to the death of horemheb, and w that there's only like 2 main pharaohs you can really talk about in depth (there are like 5 main pharaohs overall in the syllabus). idk why nesa r narrowing the scope of these essay qs so much

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

and its not even the two most important battles, its just two mid ones

YEAH RIGHT, first q for my section was js like id argue the most irrelevant pharaohs of the study, what is nesa doing

 

[Cute-Duckie]

yeah, i did the second q for my section, but for the first q it was like evaluate the role of post amarna pharaohs up to the death of horemheb, and w that there's only like 2 main pharaohs you can really talk about in depth (there are like 5 main pharaohs overall in the syllabus). idk why nesa r narrowing the scope of these essay qs so much

yeah like i just feel like there was way less to write on this year for the essays ngl

 

[Cute-Duckie]

YEAH RIGHT, first q for my section was js like id argue the most irrelevant pharaohs of the study, what is nesa doing

the first q was horrible but we didnt study the topics on the second q until after trials so no way was i doing that bs

 

[nitroexcalibur]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

 

[Cute-Duckie]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

i hope scaling is good, i feel like imma be on the edge of a band 6 so fingers crossed

 

[billy10101]

and its not even the two most important battles, its just two mid ones

i dont think i answered the question properly artemesium is so mid

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

ahhh yeah really hoping alignment is hopefully better than last yr

 

[Cute-Duckie]

i dont think i answered the question properly artemesium is so mid

samee omg, i legit said "the battles were not successful in the short-term, however in the long-term they allowed the Greeks to win the second Greco-Persian war through advantages gained from Thermopylae and Artemisium at the battle of Salamis" like bro so much yap

 

[billy10101]

samee omg, i legit said "the battles were not successful in the short-term, however in the long-term they allowed the Greeks to win the second Greco-Persian war through advantages gained from Thermopylae and Artemisium at the battle of Salamis" like bro so much yap

am i cooked if i talked about leadership and strategies in other battles, i somewhat related to question !

 

[radagastthebrown]

i hope scaling is good, i feel like imma be on the edge of a band 6 so fingers crossed

Hopefully everyone else in my cohort did well, my rank is abysmal, so despite my confidence in today's test I could get absolutely shafted.