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HSC Stuff => HSC History => HSC Humanities Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => HSC Modern History => Topic started by: scyouknow13 on September 16, 2017, 09:52:53 pm
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Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
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Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
totally feel this. my notes for ww1, germany and the cold war are 18-20 pages each, so around 21000 words altogether, not to mention personality notes which are 8 pages handwritten.
my tip for remembering everything is timelines!!! write them everywhere - they're a succinct way to remember pretty much all events. getting your friends, parents, siblings, etc to test you on different parts of the syllabus is a great memory tool as well, i would never have gotten through the trials without that. i think there's some link out here on AN that has a great guide for memorising detail, but i'll leave susie or jake to put it here :-)
good luck!!
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Hi,
Okay so I have an essay for every single dot point for Conflict in Europe and National Studies but combined they're around 40 000 words (Excluding conclusions). Without even mentioning WWI and Personalities, how do you possibly memorise everything?
As FB mentioned timelines are a great idea. Apart from that continue reading through your notes and refining your essays regularly. Test yourself under exam conditions then look at your sample to see what you've missed. Note it separately if you like so you can see what's not sticking for future revision.
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Hi!
This is probably the article that fantasticbeasts3 is referring to :)
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Hey,
Congrats on doing essays for all of those dot points! :D
One thing I do for Ancient is flashcards which you could do for dates/stats/terms or quotes. I mainly use Quizlet and I sync it with my phone so I can study in the car/not at home. It also can make quizzes that you can test yourself with. Otherwise, you can just write flashcards out yourself.
Something that Susie has recommended is detail tables. Basically you do a table for each topic/option and then have different columns for the syllabus dot point, detail/stats and quotes. You don't include a lot of content but more evidence that will back up your arguments. Susie posted hers in this thread if you would like to have a look. You would already have a lot of the stats/quotes from your essays but putting it into a table that you can test yourself with may help.
Hope this was helpful! Good luck! :D
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Hey!! You've already received some FANTASTIC answers in this thread already (<3 everyone working together), but there was still a few things I thought I could add :)
- Detail tables, as Katie said are a must when it comes to memorising and consolidating detail (working perfectly in tandem with the worksheets technique which fantasticbeasts3 mentioned, and Jess linked :) ), however they are not the only table worth constructing! I also recommend creating linking tables and argument tables, going through what are the; key connections between your topics and the topics and wider thematic concerns, what are the key debates/interpretations (make sure to include each side as well - this is particularly helpful for the personality study!).
- Read over and highlight your essays as if you were reading your notes/reading a historians work. The amount of essays you have written is fantastic (writing essays was pretty much the only study that I did last year!) and what you've probably noticed is that essays from different sections of the syllabus often look exactly the same. For example, my Stalinism essays always looked the same, pretty much no matter the question - the content I used was identical, I just changed my intro and judgement slightly to suit the question at hand. Though I don't recommend you memorise these essays, you can work out if there is a particularly good way you described something, or an interesting argument that you made, that you can carry through into the exam :)
- Tbh all I did to study last year was complete past papers, so even though you have written an essay on every dot point, don't stop! Keep going. Expose yourself to new questions. Out of everything that I did, I really feel like this was the most useful when it came to consolidating and memorising my knowledge. As I said, essays in modern often look quite similar to others, even if the question is a bit different, so you are often revising over the same content, the more essays you write about it. I suggest writing the essays in semi-exam conditions. "Semi" in the sense that, if you don't know something, you're free to google it and add to your knowledge, rather than sit there stressing that you don't know it, when you're not even in the exam yet aha. After you've written the essay, go through it again, and see all the areas where you could have added more detail, and work out what detail you could have included!!
Good luck :D
Susie