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GCSE History
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I have the first GCSE History exam tommorow and I am so royally screwed.
There's two sections. Nazi Germany and Medicine through the ages. And like I know the bare facts this happens then and it was because of this but i don't know enough. And i've done hardly any revision so it's all my fault. But arghghghhgh i'm panicking now.
I'm pretty good at History - predicted a B my teacher said i could get an A and all my coursework is A* - but there's absolutely no way I know enough to pass tommorow.
I'm gonna go in there and draw a complete blank to all the questions I know it. So angry at myself.
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There's two sections. Nazi Germany and Medicine through the ages. And like I know the bare facts this happens then and it was because of this but i don't know enough. And i've done hardly any revision so it's all my fault. But arghghghhgh i'm panicking now.
I'm pretty good at History - predicted a B my teacher said i could get an A and all my coursework is A* - but there's absolutely no way I know enough to pass tommorow.
I'm gonna go in there and draw a complete blank to all the questions I know it. So angry at myself.
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you don't need to know the whole course back to front because you get most of the information, you just need to throw in some gerneral knowledge
i find wording my answer the hardest part
at least you have good coursework to fall back on, i wouldn't worry about it unless you want to do it at A level or further, even then you only need a C
You're the same as me - I know what I want to say in my answers, but I just can't put it in words.
For the record, A Level History is so much different to GCSE that the grade you get won't matter that much, ditto IB History. Both me and my A Level friend got told to forget everything we were told at GCSE.
The first few questions are pretty simple as it's basically anaylising the sources. I just get stuck with the questions where you have to write like a huge essay to answer the question.
But guess what..I don't know anything. And my exam is in 2 hours. Great....
I got an A on my coursework so if I got a D, wouldn't that push my grade up?
Im bricking it. Thats what I have revised so if anything else comes up im stuffed. I wish I was doing the exam on medicine through the ages, I could do that part well! Ugh!
Good luck to everyone!
Chill out, I know it's hard at the time, but it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things.
i think i did ok
I'd have done your exam for you .
I revised like hell this morning - read all my notes, made notes, watched a four hour revision video, went round my friends and asked eachother questions
I didn't have too much trouble apart from on the last few questions on the medicine through time.. I got a bit confused as to what type of question it was and i think i started writing it as an impact question and then concluded it as a factors question.. and then on the last two i think i could have expanded a bit more but i didn't have enough time and i wasn't too sure about some of my points!
But the upside is i finished on time and i feel quite confident. Then again i felt quite confident on another history paper and got and E and got i did really badly on another and missed out an entire question and got a C so who knows.
Still have a another paper to go to - sources .. so that wont be to bad..
how does anyone else feel they've done?
And tink - it'll definately push your grade up.
We'll see in August.
I did this and the world war. Found both of them alright but didn't terrible in the exam.
We were told to revise The impact of the industrial revolution, Aneasthetics .. Simpson chloroform etc.. and I thought that wasn't alot at all - it didn't seem enough and then only the stuff on Jenner came up on the exam!
What you did sounds interesting compared to what I had to study.:(
I had 2 source/non-source (half with sources, half without) papers, which were Germany and Sport, Leisure and Tourism; and one non-source paper, which was Medicine Through Time. Overall I think they went pretty well. The hardest was (surprisingly) the Sport Leisure and Tourism paper, which had quite a few questions I wasn't sure on.
I'm gunning for an A* - I got full marks for my coursework so I need to have screwed up tremendously to get much worse than a B. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that isn't the case :P
Good luck to everyone else.