Australian History

[notdashwood]

anyone else who does it out there in the AN wilderness? I thought the exam was relatively straightforward but a couple of questions did throw me a little.

[TrivStar]

anyone else who does it out there in the AN wilderness? I thought the exam was relatively straightforward but a couple of questions did throw me a little.

Yeah haha I did Australian History, which seems to be a super unpopular subject on AN. Can't say I blame them. The 10 marker on national identity was a bit strange, with the hopes and fears, the time frame plus the fact that it was a "to what extent" question. Kind of felt like they purposefully built it to trick us. But otherwise it was pretty much all expected. What section did you do for AOS1?

[notdashwood]

That 10 marker was ridiculous. It felt like they combined two very separate parts of the AoS, yeah, pretty much just to mess with us. Also I'm just not a fan of 'up to 1900' questions? Post-Federation legislation is just easier to talk about, man.

I did the first document, the 1856 gold one! Glad I did, the questions were straightforward and very much what I was expecting. Which is lucky, in that I gambled on a good gold or migration document so I could just study those areas more in depth than if I was covering the whole AoS in detail. Thanks VCAA for letting me study even less. Which one did you pick?

[TrivStar]

That 10 marker was ridiculous. It felt like they combined two very separate parts of the AoS, yeah, pretty much just to mess with us. Also I'm just not a fan of 'up to 1900' questions? Post-Federation legislation is just easier to talk about, man.

I did the first document, the 1856 gold one! Glad I did, the questions were straightforward and very much what I was expecting. Which is lucky, in that I gambled on a good gold or migration document so I could just study those areas more in depth than if I was covering the whole AoS in detail. Thanks VCAA for letting me study even less. Which one did you pick?

I had so much legislation stuff to talk about that I didn't get to talk about :,-( Maybe because the A+ cut off was so high last year they wanted to throw kids?

I also did the first document! Didn't really like the other one (which was aboriginal stuff right?) so I barely even looked at it. Australian history really let's you gamble with stuff huh. In Revs it's like you gotta learn everything and Oz His you get to pick and choose. Anyway, I thought all those first document questions were good, except wasn't 100% on the political question. I couldn't really tell what they were looking for?

[notdashwood]

Yeah I feel that, at least the question on women and benefits/responsibilities was so good to compensate for it. The A+ cut off last year was like 73/80 right? No wonder they wanted to knock that down a bit.

Yeah, I think I definitely fudged my answer to that one a little bit. Can't even remember what I wrote. Chartist/etc ideas? Chinese immigrants? Man, who knows. What topics did you do for the last two sections?

[TrivStar]

Yeah I feel that, at least the question on women and benefits/responsibilities was so good to compensate for it. The A+ cut off last year was like 73/80 right? No wonder they wanted to knock that down a bit.

Yeah, I think I definitely fudged my answer to that one a little bit. Can't even remember what I wrote. Chartist/etc ideas? Chinese immigrants? Man, who knows. What topics did you do for the last two sections?

Yeah 91% cut off, crazy stuff! I did Depression and Immigration. The Depression essay question was really obvious and the Immigration document basically gave you their attitudes in the document (if you didn't do if, it was the parliament speech which stated why they were implementing a policy change to the white Australia policy so it was explicitly discussing their thought processes ha!) VCAA were very generous with those sections