Recent content by chiddyfield

Good prediction! It turned out to be ethics hahahah

Yeah, I agree. Half of the class do the subject for the marks, the other half do it for the philosophy. The latter are the higher performers, and I firmly believe that it's more important to get things out of humanities classes than to just do them for the marks. Either way, It'll be an...

My teacher is a young progressive that has basically reformed the entire history department at my school. He's very secular and it took some convincing for them to allow him to do it. If anything, I think he's going to be more critical than a state teacher would be because he and his students...

The 'What is History' topic is also really interesting, in my opinion, in the sense that it has heavy basis on philosophy in the learning process. If you're into that, jump on it. In the exams though, it is pretty much just analysing contextual influences and biases. For the elective topic my...

I'm actually quite interested in what you're saying, and I do to an extent believe what your saying after thinking about it. I think it was more the transition that democracy ushered in, rather than the democratic elements itself. Democracy eroded at the traditional values of Germany in the post...

Before the six-week break I handed in my term 1 essay task for Discovery, with the attached assessment brief: The question is: In my opinion this question is saying essentially that your discoveries are shaped by perceived connections. The teacher marking this essay has marked it with...

Hi all, just to clarify - is is necessary that you actually quote specific sources in the core, or is it sufficient just to mention 'Source X depicts Y & Z"? The sample answers don't include references and with the space restraints I'm not sure what is accepted. Thanks!