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Modern history study methods
sudodds:
--- Quote from: JoyMaalouf on July 15, 2017, 11:32:44 am ---Hey guys! I usually write summary notes and re read those 292881 for study however I feel as this isn't working well for modern history due to the amount of content so I was wondering if anybody had any other study tips?
Thank you!!
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Hey! All the above suggestions are absolutely fab :) For me, last year what I focused on was just smashing out past papers. I didn't write notes (at least in not the conventional sense) - I just did a bunch of practice responses (often open book, but closed nearer the exam), and had my teacher look over them. I honestly felt like I learnt more in those one to one sessions with my teacher, just going through my responses than I ever did in class.
If you are going to write notes, I suggest a table format :) Detail tables; so each row is a syllabus dot point, you have a column for detail and a column for quotes (no actual content notes - purely miscellaneous detail like stats, terminology, etc.), Linking tables, demonstrating how different factors that contribute to an issue are linked and interrelated (both to each other but also wide thematic concerns) and argument tables, which go through the many debates in relation to your case study, and how you can argue for an against them (so you can work out which argument is stronger!).
Hope this helps! Love seeing more and more students from this year contributing answers, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy <3 Modern fam = best fam.
Susie
JoyMaalouf:
--- Quote from: dancing phalanges on July 15, 2017, 11:53:58 am ---Personally, these holidays I haven't been writing notes rather I'll download solid notes on each topic from sites like this to just have and instead focus on practice questions and papers. For example, I have gone through Germany, Albert Speer now starting War in the Pacific and gone through the syllabus dot points, found a corresponding past paper question and written a detailed plan for each, especially for essays where it's hard to write practice essays for all possible questions with so little time. Other than that, with WW1, just do as many past papers as you can.
Good luck!
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Thank you so much!!! I will start doing this tomorrow
--- Quote from: mixel on July 15, 2017, 12:06:25 pm ---Essay plans! They're super helpful and don't take long at all. Best of all, by doing them open-book you're revising the content while you're planning out how to structure it into an essay.
Basically, you just find a section 2 or 4 question (the harder the better), write out the full introduction, and then 'skeleton' the rest of the essay in bullet points. You can make it as simple or as detailed as you find useful: really simple phrases and thoughts rather than full sentences is generally faster, but if you're doing it open book you might as well write out full meat and potatoes arguments. In either case, you want to pack it with statistics and historiography, maybe even mark them out in bold, because when you're going back over your essay plans for revision you have a really quick and easy cheat sheet for all of the detail you'd need for that question.
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Thank you heaps! I will start doing this tomorrow! :)
--- Quote from: jakesilove on July 15, 2017, 04:13:05 pm ---I would use this technique to memorise data when you study for Modern! Let me know if you have any questions about it :)
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Thank you! I will take a look :)
--- Quote from: sudodds on July 15, 2017, 04:52:33 pm ---Hey! All the above suggestions are absolutely fab :) For me, last year what I focused on was just smashing out past papers. I didn't write notes (at least in not the conventional sense) - I just did a bunch of practice responses (often open book, but closed nearer the exam), and had my teacher look over them. I honestly felt like I learnt more in those one to one sessions with my teacher, just going through my responses than I ever did in class.
If you are going to write notes, I suggest a table format :) Detail tables; so each row is a syllabus dot point, you have a column for detail and a column for quotes (no actual content notes - purely miscellaneous detail like stats, terminology, etc.), Linking tables, demonstrating how different factors that contribute to an issue are linked and interrelated (both to each other but also wide thematic concerns) and argument tables, which go through the many debates in relation to your case study, and how you can argue for an against them (so you can work out which argument is stronger!).
Hope this helps! Love seeing more and more students from this year contributing answers, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy <3 Modern fam = best fam.
Susie
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Thank you susie!! I will try making tables like you've suggested that would make memorising things much easier hahah! And YAY the modern fam is growing
Mod edit: Merged posts into one :)
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