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What marks do you think align to a band 6?
Who thinks they got one?
 

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In 2004 it was 83. My guess is that it will be 85ish this year. Personally I reckon I got 90+ raw.
 

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Yeah I reckon I possibly got a band 6, at least a low band 6. If not high band 5. Reasonably easy exam for my sections altogether.
 

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I went in very worried as I had very patchy information.. Nothing on Spartan religion or on Pompeii's buildings, or on the Delian league and luckily every question was about something I actually knew about :monkey: I'm hoping for a band 6 :) Was a very easy test, especially compared to the travesty that was english:(.
 

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Totally agree! I thought they might be mean but they were pretty good actually..
I think i got over 90 raw, hopefully a 95 if i'm lucky!
 

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Yeah I reckon 85-92% raw mark. I did like..make up a few quotes lol, they reflected the historians argument but it wasn't word for word.
 

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Yeah I reckon 85-92% raw mark. I did like..make up a few quotes lol, they reflected the historians argument but it wasn't word for word.
Yeah it's paraphrasing i.e. historian argues this that this, as long as you didn't put the quotations "this that this" (historian), you will be ok.
 

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Yeah it's paraphrasing i.e. historian argues this that this, as long as you didn't put the quotations "this that this" (historian), you will be ok.
even if you did do that, and you only slightly misquoted, you are alight due to "exam stress"

Instead of saying

"man, ancient is the worst subject ever!"

you could say "ancient was the worst subject" and your still oaky, aslong as you dont do it more than once of twice in the whole thing.

i think i got 86/ 87 raw, hoping thats a band 6 :(
 

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Well is random name dropping bad? I often regurgitated what I knew and then put "according to such and such" after it with a random source. Think they will see through it?
 

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Well is random name dropping bad? I often regurgitated what I knew and then put "according to such and such" after it with a random source. Think they will see through it?
As long as the historians you used are known for the arguements you wrote you will be ok. For example, let's consider Sparta:

This is bad: "the agoge was their education system ... Xenophon argues it was too brutal."

This is ok: "the agoge was their education system ... Aristotle argues it was too brutal."
 

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.... as long as you didn't put the quotations "this that this" (historian), you will be ok.
Shit. LOL. I did do that, but it was what they would have said. Like it was what they talked about. But they probably wouldn't have said it exactly like THAT.

So yeah I'm hoping they're lenient in that as long as the historians were known for that topic/argument its ok. I did it twice in my Augustus 25 mark easy and quite a few times for Agrippina...
 

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I'd like to say yes, but I'm not holding out much hope for a band 6. I think I completely shat that chance in the core and society. Hoping at least for a band 5 though...
 

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oh please as if the markers are gonna know every single quote
 

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I think about 85-88 raw. Hoping I can somehow scrape into the band 6 range.
 

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Well I made sure I remembered correctly at least one quote:


Some say that he did, in fact, commit incest with Agrippina every time they rode in the same litter - the stains on his clothes when he emerged proved it.- Suetonius, Twelve Lifes of Caesar, Nero.

Makes me LOL everytime.
 

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i did for section 2 periclean athens and wrote around 4 pages, for section 3 hatshepsut and around 7 and for section 4 wrote 4 pages and did new kingdom egypt. i found some parts quite simple but got stifled by a few questions as i didnt expect them and had a total memory blank. definitely my worst exam to date.
im very worried about this exam.
 

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Well I made sure I remembered correctly at least one quote:


Some say that he did, in fact, commit incest with Agrippina every time they rode in the same litter - the stains on his clothes when he emerged proved it.- Suetonius, Twelve Lifes of Caesar, Nero.

Makes me LOL everytime.
Haha I used the stains quote as well. Cyber-hi-five.
 

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