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HSC Stuff => HSC History => HSC Humanities Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC Modern History => Topic started by: jakesilove on February 12, 2016, 09:39:59 am
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Throughout your Modern History journey, there is one thing that is absolutely certain: you will have to memorise literally hundreds and hundreds of specific, accurate, relevant and detailed examples to back up any point you make. Modern history is nothing without statistics, and whilst I personally think it is silly that you have to memorise them as opposed to having an open book exam, that’s just the situation you are in!
Note that the following methods works perfectly with any other content-heavy subject!
The technique I used to memorise statistics was work sheets. Basically, I would write out my own worksheets with blank spaces, photocopy the worksheets a hundred times, and fill out the worksheet 5 times a day for weeks and weeks.
Amazingly, it works. It almost doubled the number of statistics I remember for my Modern History HSC.
I was going to release two resources, one about worksheets and one about World War I. Instead, I thought I’d just combine them into one! Check the attachment for the actual worksheets :)
The way I would use worksheets is as follows.
For each section (dotpoint perhaps?) I would write a worksheet with ONLY the absolutely crucial statistics that you are planning to remember. That means maybe 10-15 statistics per subtopic, max. Make a worksheet for each topic, and use it throughout the year to help you learn what you need to learn!
Below are the statistics I used for World War I, in Worksheet (and then answer) form. If you choose to just use mine, I can promise you that you DON’T NEED ANY MORE. That being said, if you have your own statistics please please just use yours (and make your own worksheets!). Also, remember that a lot of different sources use a lot of different statistics, which are often contradictory. Mine were mainly given to me by my teachers or found in books by prominent historians. You may have conflicting statistics; the fact is we are not always 100% sure!
Whilst I’ve only written the worksheets below for World War I, you can write your own for the entire curriculum!
Obviously this doesn’t help for an actual thesis, but it definitely does help memorising statistics.
I really hope this helps! Feel free to comment with any questions, additions, corrections, comments, criticisms etc. etc. etc.
Jake :)
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Hi Jake,
Just wondering if you were able to please post the worksheets you used for national study Germany and personality Albert Speer (if you studied him)?
If you could that would be great thanks so much!!
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Hi Jake,
Just wondering if you were able to please post the worksheets you used for national study Germany and personality Albert Speer (if you studied him)?
If you could that would be great thanks so much!!
Hey Laura!
Unfortunately I don't actually have worksheets for that section yet, however I definitely plan to develop them in the next few months. If anyone else would like to help develop them, by producing their own and sending them through, that would seriously help the community! I would also be happy to check over any such notes and make sure they are helpful/accurate :)
Jake
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This is awesome, thank you so much Jake! :)
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Hi Jake,
Thanks so much for this, its super super helpful!
I'm also going to study Germany as my national topic and Albert Speer, so I look forward to those worksheets :)
Unfortunately I haven't started yet, but when I do I'll try making some worksheets up on my own as practice and send them to you.
Btw, the worksheets on WW1, are they in order in which you studied them?? Or just in any old order?
Thanks again, I love this site!
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Hi Jake,
Thanks so much for this, its super super helpful!
I'm also going to study Germany as my national topic and Albert Speer, so I look forward to those worksheets :)
Unfortunately I haven't started yet, but when I do I'll try making some worksheets up on my own as practice and send them to you.
Btw, the worksheets on WW1, are they in order in which you studied them?? Or just in any old order?
Thanks again, I love this site!
Hey Belkelly!
They are in the order that I studied them :) I'll try to make equivalents for other topics, although they may only come later in the year. In the meantime, please feel free to send practice worksheets through! I'm really glad you enjoy the resource.
Jake
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Hi jake, I'm also doing Germany as a national study and it would be wonderful if you could post some worksheets on Leni Riefenstahl as well. That would be a great big help. Cheers! :D ;D
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thanks very much jake! my mum used this exact method to teach my brother and i our timetables back in primary school.
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thanks very much jake! my mum used this exact method to teach my brother and i our timetables back in primary school.
Hopefully it doesn't bring back too many horrible memories of timestables! Would highly recommend giving it a go for history; an old technique, but a great one!
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Thank you! This is going to be so helpful to use! Another suggestion for learning ww1 would be to maybe watch some ww1 movies and see trench life and impact of war on civilians that way its easier to learn b/c you're visually seeing it
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Hi, do you have any worksheets for Germany/Speer/Conflict in Europe by any chance? BTW this WW1 worksheet is a life saviour! The only reason i survived trials section 1 was because of this!
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Hi, do you have any worksheets for Germany/Speer/Conflict in Europe by any chance? BTW this WW1 worksheet is a life saviour! The only reason i survived trials section 1 was because of this!
I'm glad to hear that the worksheets were helpful! Unfortunately, I don't have any worksheets for those sections at this stage, although I should really get around to making some. I don't think that'll help you very much for your HSC though! Try making some of your own, and feel free to send them through to me :)
Jake
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Hey :) I uploaded this to the notes page, but I thought I'd put it here as well because it's pretty relevant haha.
Throughout the year I've been compiling a detail table, full of quotes and statistics, for WW1, Russia, Trotsky and the Cold War. It's organised by syllabus dot point, and helped me out a bunch during the trials so I thought I'd put it here in case it can help someone else out as well :)
These aren't content notes per say, but moreso interesting facts and statistics to impress the markers, and make it look like you really know your stuff.
Good luck! xx
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Hey :) I uploaded this to the notes page, but I thought I'd put it here as well because it's pretty relevant haha.
Throughout the year I've been compiling a detail table, full of quotes and statistics, for WW1, Russia, Trotsky and the Cold War. It's organised by syllabus dot point, and helped me out a bunch during the trials so I thought I'd put it here in case it can help someone else out as well :)
These aren't content notes per say, but moreso interesting facts and statistics to impress the markers, and make it look like you really know your stuff.
Good luck! xx
This is a goddamned incredible resource. Like honestly I'm so impressed right now.
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Hey :) I uploaded this to the notes page, but I thought I'd put it here as well because it's pretty relevant haha.
Throughout the year I've been compiling a detail table, full of quotes and statistics, for WW1, Russia, Trotsky and the Cold War. It's organised by syllabus dot point, and helped me out a bunch during the trials so I thought I'd put it here in case it can help someone else out as well :)
These aren't content notes per say, but moreso interesting facts and statistics to impress the markers, and make it look like you really know your stuff.
Good luck! xx
Ooft!! That's some quality stuff!! Thanks for the upload
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Ooft!! That's some quality stuff!! Thanks for the upload
This is a goddamned incredible resource. Like honestly I'm so impressed right now.
No worries! I'm glad people like it :) It took me long enough to make haha so I'd like it to help as many people as possible so it doesn't go to waste.
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This is very useful thank you. I just wanted to point out that I think some of your statistics may be wrong... but then again different textbooks say different things. I was wondering if you have a method for memorising quotes and historian names (its pretty hard to remember those).
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This is very useful thank you. I just wanted to point out that I think some of your statistics may be wrong... but then again different textbooks say different things. I was wondering if you have a method for memorising quotes and historian names (its pretty hard to remember those).
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised hahaha a lot of this was written at about 3am, but the majority are defs accurate (based around 'Key Features of Modern History' by Bruce Dennett - a history god). In terms of memorising quotes and historians names, Jake's worksheet method is definitely A+ :) Don't worry too much about memorising quote though, it's a lot more important that you know the content well and understand the key issues and themes yourself rather than being able to parrot historians. In terms of memorising historians names just try and find a core group of historians to use rather than a plethora. This not only means that you probably know their positions back to front rather than just some random quote and makes it easier to memorise (just fyi though you're unlikely to lose a mark if you get the name wrong so don't stress :) )
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This is is actually soooo helpful! Memorising statistics is by far my biggest weak spot!
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This is is actually soooo helpful! Memorising statistics is by far my biggest weak spot!
Glad that you enjoyed the resource!
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These are fantastic! hope they help for my modern trials next wednesday
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These are fantastic! hope they help for my modern trials next wednesday
Glad that they help! Good luck for Wednesday :)
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My teacher basically bombarded us with stats for WWI and has continued with more during revision classes!
this is literally the best document for WWI, so helpful! thank you so so so much!
how do you choose the most important ones though?
I've also forgotten practically all of WW1 since doing so much WW2 its a distant memory sooo much study to do
any effective and efficient suggestions that work for modern regarding study???
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My teacher basically bombarded us with stats for WWI and has continued with more during revision classes!
this is literally the best document for WWI, so helpful! thank you so so so much!
how do you choose the most important ones though?
I've also forgotten practically all of WW1 since doing so much WW2 its a distant memory sooo much study to do
any effective and efficient suggestions that work for modern regarding study???
For me, it wasn't really a case of choosing the most important ones. You never know what type of question you're gonna get, so though this may not be the answer you want to here, it comes down to learning as many as possible (which these worksheets cater too perfectly!). In terms of study, pretty much the only way I studied last year was doing practices responses open book! For WW1 that is super easy - the questions are literally syllabus dot points with a question at the end, so you can basically write them yourself easily, and cover all the syllabus dot points :)
Hope this helps!
Susie
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For me, it wasn't really a case of choosing the most important ones. You never know what type of question you're gonna get, so though this may not be the answer you want to here, it comes down to learning as many as possible (which these worksheets cater too perfectly!). In terms of study, pretty much the only way I studied last year was doing practices responses open book! For WW1 that is super easy - the questions are literally syllabus dot points with a question at the end, so you can basically write them yourself easily, and cover all the syllabus dot points :)
Hope this helps!
Susie
Thank you so much that does help!
Loved your modern history lecture last week btw it was amazing
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Thank you so much that does help!
Loved your modern history lecture last week btw it was amazing
Awww thank you so much <3 I'm so glad you enjoyed! I had so much fun delivering it :)
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Heyo! If anyone is studying Russia and the Soviet Union for the National Study, I have created a set of worksheets (similar in style to Jake's in the OP!). I made these for my tutoring students, but felt like, what the hell, you guys to deserve them too ;)
Hope they help!
Susie
(Side note: Please don't freak out if there is any information that you didn't know in these worksheets, as that is the point - expanding your detail beyond the textbook!)
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These Russia worksheets are great!
Thanks so much!! :D
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These Russia worksheets are great!
Thanks so much!! :D
So glad you enjoyed <3
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Hey :) I uploaded this to the notes page, but I thought I'd put it here as well because it's pretty relevant haha.
Throughout the year I've been compiling a detail table, full of quotes and statistics, for WW1, Russia, Trotsky and the Cold War. It's organised by syllabus dot point, and helped me out a bunch during the trials so I thought I'd put it here in case it can help someone else out as well :)
These aren't content notes per say, but moreso interesting facts and statistics to impress the markers, and make it look like you really know your stuff.
Good luck! xx
These worksheets just saved my life in Modern!!!
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These worksheets just saved my life in Modern!!!
Nawww I'm so glad you found them useful!!! :) Good luck for Friday!