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Si91Anne said:
yar. finished the whole exam with 16 minutes to go. I thought i spent to much time on the first part, but obviously i was fine. I'm still in the English exam frame of mind, you know? Write 56 words a second just to finish.
My time management is horrible.
Haha my handwriting is like a doctors after an hour of writing.
 
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RubyJBrown said:
the US declared war on the 6th april 1917, in 1918 they sent another million troops but there were americans on the western front in 1917, just not many.
yeah exactly...
i think some people overthought the question, which you don't need to do for the 5 five marks because it's pretty much basic comprehension or in this case reading off a graph
 

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Pretty good exam. I started off by planning my answers and that took about 10 mintues. And then Personality Study. Pretty good q's imo. Then Germany - totalitarian Q ftw :D I looked over my essay for that in the morning, but didn't really expect it.

And then Conflict in the Pacific. Gosh, lol. Strategies of BOTH sides from 1937-1951.... it was like telling a narrative/story.

And then Core Q. Rushed it but still good... nice sources :)
 

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And desertions?
 

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old.skool.kid said:
LENI IS NOT A LOSER.
yeah she is. (comeback of the year haha)
i said she was in relation to the whole nazi involvement.. she came off looking like a loser. Not in the "hey that kid picks his nose and wears rabens... What a loser" sense but the fact all her work lost artistic credibility so she lost that aspect of her life. something like that.
my brain melted.
 

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sorry buddy the question was specific to german infantry hence the "crushed through undamaged trenches" is wrong id say

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demoralised
helpless againt the "invunrability" of the tanks
abanonded their posts
 

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inter108 said:
Haha my handwriting is like a doctors after an hour of writing.
lol same. It's pretty helpful though, as i near the end of an exam i forget how to spell. So my horrible spelling is camouflaged by my even more horrible handwriting
 

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yeah she is. (comeback of the year haha)
i said she was in relation to the whole nazi involvement.. she came off looking like a loser. Not in the "hey that kid picks his nose and wears rabens... What a loser" sense but the fact all her work lost artistic credibility so she lost that aspect of her life. something like that.
my brain melted.
was she linked to the holocaust if so she is a loser?

but if not carry on xD

I can't spell LMAO
 
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My hands were smudged with ink :/ And nearly every pen that I used ran out lol.
 

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overall a good paper

RUSSIA - 13 pages
Trotsky - 18 pages
COLD War - 16 pages
 
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smozdaddy said:
I did Germany(a) and Indochina(a). Both were pretty easy and relatively straightforward. Hardest was Speer for part (b) of personalities
Same!!!

but i didn't realise the trick question until now dam it! I actually thought in the test. thats way to easy to be USA. lol

I dont think i did great tho.
 

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inter108 said:
Is she was linked to the holocaust she is a loser.

but if not carry on xD
not directly but she supported Hitler. The topic made me angry.. but made for good debates in class. Most ended with "Man Hitler was a dickhead" Pretty intellectual
 

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Gosh this exam was hard..... I probably failed =] Oh well.
 

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Kujah said:
My hands were smudged with ink :/ And nearly every pen that I used ran out lol.
haha i forgot my pens for one of my trials then the ones i borrowed ran out. Learned a valuable lesson that day, dont turn up to an exam without pens and then expect your friends to lend you the pens with ink in them.
 

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lol, the problem was that 4 pens ran out after 3h :(
 

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justchek'n said:
sorry buddy the question was specific to german infantry hence the "crushed through undamaged trenches" is wrong id say

i put

demoralised
helpless againt the "invunrability" of the tanks
abanonded their posts[/quote]

Yeah thats also what i said. Should be right aye
 
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imqt said:
overall a good paper

RUSSIA - 13 pages
Trotsky - 18 pages
COLD War - 16 pages
i had around same amount to write
+/- for russia and trotsky

the questions were awesome, so much to say
 

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imqt said:
overall a good paper

RUSSIA - 13 pages
Trotsky - 18 pages
COLD War - 16 pages
how the heck did you have enough time to write that many pages?
wow...... I'm lucky if i did 18 pages all up
 

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