How is it you all go about answering questions?

[Kotza]

Despite having a deep knowledge of he revolutions i am doing, i find it pretty hard to word my answers in regards to questions such as;
"How did the "_____" contribute to a revolutionary situation by "___".
Basically the 10 mark questions of Part A Section 1.

[Spreadbury]

the main ideals? unhappiness of the people (if so, what events contributed to that unhappiness)? any revolutionary actions within that time?

not knowing what revolutions you're doing, or a specific question it's hard to tell you how i'd approach it.

I would advise you to approach it sequentially though as one event is likely to lead to another e.g. general strikes in september > October: strikes halt the economy > October manifesto. but you should still group parts of the revolution that are related, not just blurt everything out in order.

also, what do you mean by wording? coherent expression or just knowing what to write in general?

[Kotza]

Thanks Spreadbury

i'm doing Russian and French
Ahhh ok, doing it in a sequential manner does seem the best way to answer it, this is how ive been going about it so i should be fine with that. However I wrote my question wrong, I actually meant to ask a few questions about HOW to answer questions, not the actual wording of my answers:

- is it necessary to have that sort of topic sentence similar to an essay, as in "The ideas of Marquis de Lafayette indeed contributed... etc"? Or are you able to just begin immediately in stating evidence and so on?
- Would you ever stay within the confines of the provided space? For 10 marks, the space they give you isn't all that much although assessment reports always suggest to stay within the space provided. What do you do?

that's all i can think of at the moment, i had more but i cant think of them at all lol. cheers.

[Spreadbury]

jump straight into it for the 10 mark questions, topic sentences are a waste of space for these questions, and aren't necessary. definitely do it in the essay though

I often write over the amount of lines required, perhaps because I ramble a little. if you're concise I suppose you shouldn't need to go over the lines, but, they do recognise that you might. there's extra space in the back of the booklet so obviously, if time permits and you have more to say, say more. elaboration could never hurt

[Greggler]

concise and straight to the point. almost robotic. saves time, and the markers are just looking for your points, pure facts and evidence.
You want to spend no more than 10 minutes on each extended response, if you can write more than the lines in this time, do so.

Just do an intro sentence answering the topic.
Then i use to just do really long winded sentences for each point, it would be like:
- Initially .... happened, thus .... occurred, hence ....
-Subsequently lenin did ...., which in turn ..... therefore...
 - Finally one must consider.... which ..... and thus contributed to the revolutionary situation.
(I'd aim from anywhere between 3-5 of these points, depending on how broad or specific the topic was)

Then id throw in a concluding sentence to tie it all together, link them all, find a common theme or something unique to the questoin to show it wasnt entirely pre prepared. 

Remember, this section is all about facts and evidence, just get straight to the point and try to, as best as possible, demonstrate your knowledge. the best way to do this is discuss events, dates, people, stats etc. and discuss their individual effect on development of a revolution or whatever.