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[Krit 100]

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

ye the question on political life was awesome, definitiely one of my fav questions, i did well in it. Ye i only noticed when i had an hour to go that question on the over side of the buff book and the one on purely archaeology .. thank god for that one hour to spare or i wlda been toast...

 

[urgay]

WELL EVERYONE BETTER LISTEN UP, THERS GONNA BE AN VOLCANO AT POMPEII, IN CAMPANIA, WATCH OUT, PLINY NEWS EXTRA SAYS THAT IT MIGHT COVEER THE WHOLE CITY
if anyone talks to the ccommander of the fleet at misenum, can u pls tell him pliny the younger is really worried and he wants him to save ppl at the beach at stabaie.
ta, amen

 

[Keskimo]

Yeah I have to say I agree, if you prepared well you would have needed the three hours. And, although the Pompeii questions may have been 'easy', I think they expect a lot of detail and latin terms in your answers to get a band 6 - and it hasn't been examined before so you couldn't compare how you went with exemplar responses.
With regards to the Sparta agoge question, I think Ancient History marking is somewhat more holistic i.e. you wouldn't need to know the five stages to get five marks, unless you could think of a specific 'role' for each of them. I bombed on Spartan women because I thought they meant the Spartiates, not the helots and perieoci - dammit.

 

[pirate!]

WELL, I don't know about the rest of you, but in my classroom in was a very INTERESTING exam. Our supervisor person decided to talk to us beforehand, and after the reading time, both of which were slightly distracting. In the reading time, after seeing some of the questions, i did two things: a) i started laughing, and b) swearing.

It's very disconcerting when you see the person diagonally in front of you writing-writing-writing....filling up many booklets, when you yourself are having difficulty even finishing the ones you were given, on account of you didn't really study and didn't have any information to fill them with.

About an hour into the exam, a bird (it looked colourful, so I'm guessing a rainbow lorikeet), decided to fly straight into the window and cause a rather loud whack as it hit it. By far the biggest distraction, especially when you are sitting next said window, although it would have been even more distracting if the window was actually opened. That would have been very amusing.

It was also funny to see people start to leave in opposite rank order. Expected, I know, but nevertheless amusing.

Pompeii and its food can go away under its volcanic mush and continue to be buried. What was the first question about? Someone said they wrote about the effects as "people crying and wailing etc etc". I wrote about the pumice and the like. Is that incorrect?

Sparta was ok I spose.

Hatshepsut and NKE to TIV, should have always in my opinion, been left where they were and died. Worst. Topics. Ever. Unlucky me who doesn't like Egypt and yet had to sit through that woman blabbering about it for two terms, trying to *teach* it. THe term "teach" is used loosely.

Subsequently, after walking out of the exam to find this same woman flapping her arms around, excited because for some reason she thought it was an ok exam, I walked up to her and asked "Miss, what are Hatshepsut's foreign policies?"

She looked worried at this stage. By some luck and guess work/process of elimination, i did somewhat talk about the right stuff.

Last Ancient party ever. THANK THE LORD!

 

[HilaryLush]

OH no! wat polital and archaeology stuff????
i didnt see any of them in the paper. i think i missed these questions.... wat 2 sections???

i only see like 5questions there for pompei and herculaneum.
1. name the event
2. the affects on these ppeople
3. the food
4. the forum
5. technology - i was expecting ethical issue question, so i did really badly on this.

Is there more questions????

no, u saw the questions, they're talking about the forum question (aka political qu) and the technology qu (aka archaeology)

 

[F.R.O.G]

OMG OMG Pompeii ROCKED!!!! i was soooo totally prepared for that is was scary... I do/did Hatchepsut New Kingdom Egypt to the death of thut IV and Minoans as my Personality, historical and society and found that the Historical rocked Society was harded than expected but still ok and Hatshepsut was really bland...
Coulda been heaps more prepared if my teacher spent more time teachig us the content than giving usstupid test in no way the same format to the HSC and no relevance to anything really... In Pompeii i loved the final question cept i ran outta room and had to go onto the back of the page... i just had so much to write about Bisel, Lazer, Hadrill, Fiorelli, and the rest of the gang... The Thumose III question in the historical was FANTASTIC wrote a full 2 books for that question... Overall it was better than the previous years but still challenging... (b/coz i had to reteach myself the whole topics coz of my stupid incompetant teacher)

P.S how many quotes and stuff did everyone use for any of the topics... I tried to put in as many as possible... even for pompeii- is that good???

 

[sly_skittle]

I know this is going to sound stupid...but what actually is Lady of Oplontis?

 

[mmc754]

Yeah I basically hated it. Left 30 mins early.. pretty dissapointed.

The Hatshepsut question was left field but all you had to do was think about it.

I mentioned The expedition to Punt and the way she kept Egypt stable so Tuthmose III could carry out military foreign policy... prob wrong but the best I could do.

overall.. I was pretty dissapointed. The women of Sparta is important cause they were treated different to most other places at the time..

I dunno.. I think it sucked lol

 

[fishy89sg]

exam copy pls

 

[luscious-llama]

no, u saw the questions, they're talking about the forum question (aka political qu) and the technology qu (aka archaeology)

So essentially although they're ripping into people who left early (not me) they're not even discussing the questions in their proper terms?

AHAHAHA bah.

 

[blind_cat]

i thought the exam was very easy. I had one hour to spare and thought that i had missed a question or my watch was broken. i started with sec 4, then sec 3, then sec 1 and 2. with the one hour i just wrote on top of what i had already written.

 

[Keys]

the julio-claudian essay questions where fcuked!!!i swear they seem to have run out of questions to ask!theres no way either of those questions could be answered for 25 full marks!!!

 

[the hsc sucks]

BWAHAHA. *dies*

Actually, the exam wasn't that bad.

Although I had already decided that I was going to scab off the other people in the exam who get the best marks. I do well in the assignments but go crap in the exams, so coming no. 1 has its advantages at the end, I suppose.

Pompeii and Herculaneum: was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be. Yeah, that food one was dodgy.

Athens in the Time of Pericles: was not so bad. I thought the Polis question was stupid.

Pericles: was exceptionally good, especially the second one because we had done it as a speech for assignment last term.

Greek world 440-500: was not as good as it could've been. I couldn't remember who Leonidas was (I believed he was the guy who died fighting but I wasn't 100% sure, dammit, I should have gone with it!) and instead crapping on the Delian League. It was an odd question, because it only said explain not describe and there's only so much you can explain about the Delian League!!

Overall, not so bad. I'm hoping for a band 5, but a band 6 would be very, very nice.

yeah, leonidas was the spartan king who died fighting with his 300 spartans (is it just me, or does that sound really small? maybe they couldnt count back then). oh well, who knows? you could have done a good job with the delian league one

 

[Priscilla899]

Pompeii- good, good, was able to save a bit of time from this bit to use later
Sparta- yeah, pretty generic................I didn't refer heaps to the source they gave us tho, but more other ones.
Hatshepsut- Was a bit thrown at first with the foreign policy but then went into how stuff she did in foreign lands strengthened Egypt etc.....Punt, Nubia.........hard to explain but i talked to my teacher and she said i was right so phew.
Delian League- wrote alot, Histiry exams are nowhere near as intense as English!

Overall, thought it was a good exam. Hoping for 5/6

 

[postgate]

umm.. im in year 11 and youse are freaking me out.. im just starting to learn about hatshepsut and the rest seem hard.. haha.. how bad was the exam compared to the rest?

 

[Hosey]

Im really happy with the way i did the exams i did not finish early cause that would be a waste of time you could use to revise your answers. Overall i know i did well and it was one of the easiest test i did during the HSC period.

 

[rok~show]

pompeii=easy
other stuff=shit
augustus was so hard compared to the rest wtf is up with that??

 

[jjjodes]

Considering I got very worked up and worried about this exam because I paid very little to no attention in class during the year, the exam was a breese!

It ended up being my top mark, and I found all sections apart from one Hatshepsut question to be pretty good.

Old Kingdom Egypt society and Pompeii were the best, but I found the Old Kingdom Historical period question to be a bit of a suprise, but a good one, as it was a question similar to one we did in an essay during the year.


The easiest exam I did I think.