General Thoughts - Ancient History (2 Viewers)

[SSRabbitohs2009]

I liked the new Q1 for Pompeii section. So many exams was a written quote from someone about the Eruption.
Greek World 500-440- Delian League- best.ever. Though, I think some of the dates I mentioned were inaccurate.
HATEshepsut- I raped the first question. Wrote the shit out of it. Then, it came to bit me in the ass because I ran out of time for the "assessment in her time" 15mk.
Sparta came back to haunt me- that 12mk for the role of kings- I looked over that in my notes when I got out, and there was no way that I could have filled a 12.
Core Study- pretty good & straightforward. Got confused with the last question as to what exactly they were asking.

 

[KAIZOKUsama]

i thought the whole test was really okay actually... until i got home and realised that i wrote vestibule instead of atrium for pompeii.

one easy mark gone... dammit. the other parts were actually not as bad as i had thought they would be, thank god they didn't ask architechture and function for egypt. i would have been royally screwed.

suprisingly, even though i studied least for agrippina i felt i did my better for that section than any other section.

 

[Nª!j∂♫]

i hate to sound like pretty much the only positive vote here, but i was actually really happy with it :]
i thought the pompeii stuff was okay... freaked out a bit though when i saw the first question! thinking... wtf? I CAN'T SEE ANY! *cries*
but yeah, i thought the questions were really.. good.
like fairer than the rest.
i was happy with my sections, cept the lovely 25 marker at the end when i started rambling... haha
:]

 

[Alasdaire]

I did the Themistocles question for 500-440 BC
im fairly sure you could go two ways with the question, (as 'to the exent' means to make a judgment) either you could go on and say how amazing he was OR you could say he was good, buuuut other leaders and nations played a role like Leonidas, Pausanias, leotychidas
am i right?

 

[Daikaio]

Overall it was pretty spectacular.
Section I - sweet
Section II - also sweet
Section III - a little unexpected, but sweet
Section IV - ran out of time, but I condensed my writing enough to get all of my points in

Hopefully gonna get 20+ for all sections. Band 6 would be excellent!

 

[Rosalily]

I thought it was good. P&H threw me a bit cause it seemed they expected different things from in the past - less analysis of the sources and more knowledge. For example with that baths thing i spent ages wondering what they wanted me to say when the source gave us basically nothing. The Caesar section was pretty much like a fall of the roman republic question so that made it a lot easier with thinking of quotes. Overall i was happy with it after only studying that morning.

 

[tylerjames333]

over all i thought it wasnt too bad of an exam

i think i did ok

Except mixing my pompeii and minoan women up
apparantly the well respected women of minoan crete could work as prostitutes hahaha

apart from that though, alright

loved the essay for historical of A3 to R2.

 

[posey-rose]

argh complete failure!

pompeii and herc completely fine (except the question on industries... i started talking about bakeries)

sparta-excellent

xerxes- wtf foreign policy???? ergh i had memoriesed all these perfect quotes for his damn building program.

greek wars- fail, could only remember herodotus as a source so threw in alot of archaeological evidence.

ohwell it's over

 

[Sarebs]

I thought the 8-marker for P&H was pretty good... to do with something like industry? Was broad so I could talk about a lot of things.

 

[Justin123456789]

argh complete failure!

pompeii and herc completely fine (except the question on industries... i started talking about bakeries)

sparta-excellent

xerxes- wtf foreign policy???? ergh i had memoriesed all these perfect quotes for his damn building program.

greek wars- fail, could only remember herodotus as a source so threw in alot of archaeological evidence.

ohwell it's over

a common misconception in ancient history is the need to fill your essay with sources every 5 lines. lol

however, markers actually dislike constant name dropping and sources that dont really show something of signifiance, which is why the criteria says "relevant sources" not "extensive" use of sources.

so, youll be fine

 

[KAIZOKUsama]

a common misconception in ancient history is the need to fill your essay with sources every 5 lines. lol

however, markers actually dislike constant name dropping and sources that dont really show something of signifiance, which is why the criteria says "relevant sources" not "extensive" use of sources.

so, youll be fine

OH NO! I just realised i practically used NO sources for Augustus! (well except that one point abot how Augustus is portrayed on coins & the Ara Pacis) I didn't use any quotes! crap crap crap!!

 

[Allisonius]

OH NO! I just realised i practically used NO sources for Augustus! (well except that one point abot how Augustus is portrayed on coins & the Ara Pacis) I didn't use any quotes! crap crap crap!!

Quotes aren't essential for ancient history, Archaeological sources are just as valid

 

[gibbo153]

Quotes aren't essential for ancient history, Archaeological sources are just as valid

yeah, if anything paying attention to no archaelogical sources is probably not a good idea depending on the question. obviously the ideal response would have both. i didn't do archaelogical stuff for my question but i do caesar and rome, its too tempting just to say quotes cos they seem more sophisticated and are more usable lol haha.

 

[posey-rose]

a common misconception in ancient history is the need to fill your essay with sources every 5 lines. lol

however, markers actually dislike constant name dropping and sources that dont really show something of signifiance, which is why the criteria says "relevant sources" not "extensive" use of sources.

so, youll be fine

i'll hold you to it.

thankyou for putting my mind at ease

 

[ryder2106]

I died in this exam.
Section 4 was fine, as was Societies, but I died in Pompeii and Personalities. The questions were plain weird and not what I had studied....goodbye band 6 =[

 

[Dibbyy]

I think the core was easily the worst part..like the tourism Q was very focused and i dont ive answered that as well as i thought i would.
Otherwise, I think periclean athens was fairly straightforward, except for maybe the role of the citizen in athenian democracy 12 marker..

Agrippina I only managed to put in 3 ancient sources and 2 modern, couldnt think of anything else , the death was ok i think.

section four was VERY hard! I did Augustus, and I found the Senate Q very vague and I wasn't sure what was required.

Good to hear that others have done well in other sections

 

[roar84eighty]

yeah, if anything paying attention to no archaelogical sources is probably not a good idea depending on the question. obviously the ideal response would have both. i didn't do archaelogical stuff for my question but i do caesar and rome, its too tempting just to say quotes cos they seem more sophisticated and are more usable lol haha.

i agree, but i think archaeological sources are the ultimate sources/evidence for questions on cultural life, art and technology. of course how can you assess a statue as an historical source if their primary purpose is to portray the depicted personality as noble figure

 

[gibbo153]

i agree, but i think archaeological sources are the ultimate sources/evidence for questions on cultural life, art and technology. of course how can you assess a statue as an historical source if their primary purpose is to portray the depicted personality as noble figure

very true. i was referring more to topics like Rome and Caesar where archaelogical sources (of relevance to most questions) are basically limited to coinage, inscriptions etc. its in the core section and most societies sections that archaelogical sources are very very very very important.

e.g. Eumachia statue - inscription "Eumachia thanks for winning at life and being a total babe. lotsa love - the fullers"

Marcus Nonius Balbus statue - "Hey marky here's you on a horse cos you're mad powerful and you basically run this town and paid for every building in it. muchh lovee!! xoxo"