Your thoughts on the exam (1 Viewer)

[lambird]

loved it!
pompeii... sexellent!
sparta, question on women... MWAH!!!
alexander.. didnt like the first q much, but still went good!
julio claudians.. did claudius, managed to fill a booklet!

quite happy!!! plus we got chocolate after!

hey i do exactly the same subjects as u. good luck with bio! i failed the trial ugh hate that subject

 

[mojo_rising]

Pretty good overall. P +H reasonably good (food question pretty whacky). Sparta was easy ( I like it how a lot of ppl are complaining about women question...i was praying for a 10 marker on that!). Agrippina good but didnt know much about first two marriages. Augustus i found hardest but wrote a lot so maybe ok.
Got onto 2 booklets for each section which was cool, wrote about 33 pages not including core

 

[Krit 100]

ARE YOU GUYS INSANE?!?!!!!!!!!!

omg.... i thought it was sooooo stupid. granted, our teacher isnt the best there is.. but it all just seemed so.... FOREIGN!

there was about 50 of us sitting the exam. half walked out before 10:30 and when i left at 11:30 coz i was sick there was only about 5 people left! our whole year thought it was hard. there were some easy bits like pompeii and herculaneum but the rest of it was so hard.

we didnt get to the last section in class so i got my own info on the greek world 550 - 440 or whenever it was and i had NO idea who the first two people were and only vaguely knew the delian league and wrote bout half a page for a TWENTY FIVE MARK QUESTION!

im screwed... our whole year is screwed. do you think theres a band zero???

hey what school did u go to??????????

 

[moekalsoon]

yeh i wrote 42 pages, my un the 3 hours, my arm was extremely tired afterwards and my writing was moderate, not big and not small and surprisingly neat.

 

[gracerawl88]

hey i do exactly the same subjects as u. good luck with bio! i failed the trial ugh hate that subject

yes i hate bio... good luck to you too

 

[izzy88]

hey so if there are no limits on the people getting into band 6...isn't that bad then because doesn't that mean ancient will scale pretty badly in the UAI calculations?

im not sure how it all works...but im pretty sure if the subject is deemed 'easy' (based on the exam anyway) it won't scale great compared to other subjects for the UAI? Anyone know anything about that extremly complicated, mathematical process??

 

[The Brucemaster]

Yeah I found it much easier than I expected it to be. The Peloponnesian War question was a gift for our school because we had a question on the Sicilian Expedition in our half yearly and trial so we were all pretty set for that one.

For whoever was getting worried about everyone finding it easy I was talking to my teachers today and they thought that because it was easier it wouldn't scale aswell.

 

[kimsquared]

Dw, I don't think everyone found it easy. Think about it this way, all the people who studied and worked all year would have found it good - and that's us here on these forums discussing the exam

and then all the people that didn't study and found it hard don't care, so you never hear from them

*equilibrium managed*

 

[Gilbert1]

Do u guys do adv english?? i want to know pple who does standard english do well for ancient history as well. i see many of u guys from adv english and its making me worry because i didnt do so well. i didnt know how to study for history and now i know cause usually i study by reading text book.
Im really confident i will do good for sparta because i used my notes instead of from the texbook. I have my other own notes on other topics but i didnt use them, i should have used them.

ARE u pple aiming high for ur UAI like 90+???? i was hoping those average students dont say it was easy, i find it not easy.

I am an average student BUT i did find it easy because it is my best subject by far. I came first in my year in yr11 but screwed up Agrippina in yr12 (like really really badly. Think bottom 5 students). The exam was fairly balanced but what will set everyone apart are the last two sections.
Also if people got lazy in P+H you loose a mark here, a mark there then suddenly you are a band lower then you should be. Don't worry, trust in your own evaluation and you already know the result.

 

[urgay]

hey did anyone write about the earthquake of AD 62 for the first question plus call the eatery a bathroom in question 2 !!!!!

i compelety agree with you. these people are so up themselves, they think they are going to do so well but they dont realise it wasn't an eatiry, it was a bathroom, der. notice the smaller, mudbricks, an obvious characteristic of a bathroom :burn: they are all dumb loveos, and hahah they didnt even realise taht the source was about the earthquake not the volcanoe

suck shit losers

 

[jesuschrist]

i compelety agree with you. these people are so up themselves, they think they are going to do so well but they dont realise it wasn't an eatiry, it was a bathroom, der. notice the smaller, mudbricks, an obvious characteristic of a bathroom :burn: they are all dumb loveos, and hahah they didnt even realise taht the source was about the earthquake not the volcanoe

suck shit losers

hrmmmm
have to beg to differ
BTW
dont be an ass
you cant rip on ppl for being up themselves then tell them that they are all wrong and to suck shit....hrrmmm sounds a tad up urself
and the second source was a food bar...? y would we they ask us to talk bout food if we were meant to talk about shit?
sounds like you are just trying to stress out all the anicent nerds... not very nice of you
and if the first sourse was the 62 quake meh...only three marks, and the question make a whole lot more sense now
im sure we made it up by not talking about excrement in the food question

hang on have consulted text book

PLiny The younger letters book IV 20
"the shirll cries of women...etc" second letter to tacitus in which pliny describes the effects of the erruption as experienced in misenum

yay all is well

 

[atreus]

Dw, I don't think everyone found it easy. Think about it this way, all the people who studied and worked all year would have found it good - and that's us here on these forums discussing the exam

and then all the people that didn't study and found it hard don't care, so you never hear from them

i agree, and u have to think that there are about 15000 that did ancient this year, weren't there?

 

[urgay]

hang on have consulted text book

PLiny The younger letters book IV 20
"the shirll cries of women...etc" second letter to tacitus in which pliny describes the effects of the erruption as experienced in misenum

yay all is well[/quote]

HAHAH MADE YOU STRESS. lol oviously it was a food bar, evn a retarded mong would know that , and if you had to re-consult ur book about the first source, i would be very ashamed./
lol i am certain i will beat you all HAHAHAH

 

[sanjay_88]

Whoever was the fool who said the picture in the food question was a bathroom, You are an idiot. Firstly, it said a 'food bar in Pompeii' and secondly it was a thermopolium(thats the name for a food bar) in Pompeii and the holes in the benches were where they put hte food into and people took their food from inside them. So, trying to worry ppl by saying they were wrong and it is a bathroom is stupid, and so are you. There's no need to worry ppl like that and tell em to suck s***.

 

[sanjay_88]

Oh and Urgay, forgot to tell u ur a wanker in the last comment, coz ur NOT goin to beat everyone, i personally will hand it to u and ur cockiness will bring u a quick downfall.

 

[urgay]

oh and your gay
btw i am not cocky, this whole forum is designed, sadly, for ppl to show off omg i only wrote about the gay blah blah downfall of xerses mah mah, omg hpfully i still get 24/25.....
u guys are losersss yeh i know it was a food bar, i guarantee i got 4/4 becaus unlike some other losers who tried to obviously COMPENSATE for their lack of knowledge, by saying all shit about pristinas or watever and like taverns, u needed to mention commericalism-->foodbar--->thermopolia--->the round dishes doila, kept food warm, you ate standing up or take away
so there

 

[rjharley]

lol its kinda sad for anyone who studied ancient history to be scared by urgay's first comment. the source talked about ash and darkness lol, since when does that happen in an earthquake??

everyone seems to be quite confident, although my friend gets overconfident too and is always disappointed when marks come back, you dont get any marks for things that arent relevant to the question, and its kinda easy to get sidetracked in ancient history. also the people that left like 50min early, the exam is kinda designed to go for three hours so, i dont really know what to think, unless you can write with godly speed.

 

[urgay]

you said it RJHARLY gosh someone on my level-
hahaha overconfident=gay, but why act over confident and then panic about a clearly ovious question, to then say no im right
eww everyone on here smells likE POMPEII POO

 

[Krit 100]

oh and your gay
btw i am not cocky, this whole forum is designed, sadly, for ppl to show off omg i only wrote about the gay blah blah downfall of xerses mah mah, omg hpfully i still get 24/25.....
u guys are losersss yeh i know it was a food bar, i guarantee i got 4/4 becaus unlike some other losers who tried to obviously COMPENSATE for their lack of knowledge, by saying all shit about pristinas or watever and like taverns, u needed to mention commericalism-->foodbar--->thermopolia--->the round dishes doila, kept food warm, you ate standing up or take away
so there

Obviously UR GAY is a very knowledgable person. She has mocked all u people with the earthquake and bathroom joke and u all run into a frenzy. AS if any of you finished in like 2 hours and had a n hour to spare - in that case u most proabably will have failed. And that person who said they cldnt help themselves from laughing when they saw the questions ......... GET A LIFE!!!!!

 

[urgay]

HHAHAA KRIT100 we should seriously meet, ur totally the only person on here who has sense
gosh and for all those ppl who had an hour left, didnt you realise there were two sections on pompeii, god u guys mustn't have turned to the back of the second buff ccoloured sheets, you know the paper that had all the stuff on archaeology, and the poltical life in pompeii.... jtat wats my best bit