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5 Top Tips for History Essay Success

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Fibrahim :
Thank you sooooooo much, this is so helpful you are a legend

sudodds:

--- Quote from: Fibrahim  on January 29, 2017, 08:38:23 am ---Thank you sooooooo much, this is so helpful you are a legend

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No worries! Be sure to come back if you have any more questions :)

Newbalance101:
Thank you so much for this post. I was wondering how you suggest going about studying for the different essay's that may come up in modern history? It seems like a lot and I'm curious to hear of how other people did it. Thanks in advanced

sudodds:

--- Quote from: Newbalance101 on February 10, 2017, 06:13:33 pm ---Thank you so much for this post. I was wondering how you suggest going about studying for the different essay's that may come up in modern history? It seems like a lot and I'm curious to hear of how other people did it. Thanks in advanced

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Hey newbalance!
Judging by your post in the essay marking thread we didn't study the same topics :( So in regards to specific stuff I'm probs not the best to answer, but in general I think the best way is to just do a shit tonne of practice papers. Familiarise yourself with the format of the exam, and the types of questions that they commonly ask. I'd write essays based on past papers, but also take syllabus dot points and turn them into general questions (ie. not extremely specific, so like I did Russia so a general question would be "account for Stalin's rise to power" rather than "to what extent was ideology critical to Stalin's rise to power" you get me?) to make sure that you are 100% confident with anything that they can throw your way.

ALSO writing adaptable essay scaffolds is a good idea. I don't know if this is the same for indochina, but I know with the Cold War, you could almost always count on (for essays that covered the first two syllabus areas) writing about the crises, containment and the arms race, so memorising an ADAPTABLE (adaptable. adaptable. key word - adaptable) paragraph or scaffold for each was a good idea and something I found super useful :) I also highly suggest writing a detail table based around the syllabus dot points as detail is a super important addition to modern essays that'll help you to push the top marks :) Just include any relevant quotes, stats or interesting info (I think an example for mine for WW1 can be found around the forums - it's defs in the notes tab).

I hope this helped!! :)

Newbalance101:
Hey haha its me again. I have another question. In regards to Conflict in Indochina my history teacher told us not to quote historians (as many are in a revisionist period regarding the Vietnam War? I think was the reasoning) and instead to quote mainly primary sources or people in the events (so JFK, HCM, Diem, Nixon, etc) I was wondering if anyone else was told this or is it just us? And how much extra research would you suggest doing for modern history. I read somewhere that the more you do the generally better you go?

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