How did people run out of time? 3 hours is a long time.. Even though I had an idea as to what I was writing, I did get a little bored/tired towards the end, but I pushed myself to get around 3 to 5 pages for each question.
Did the Julio-Claudian 25 marker second after Pompeii just because I knew that was the one where most marks would be concentrated. It's quite hard to memorise not only the quotes but also who said them, so I ended up just putting the actual quote and then a random historian (usually Tacitus) next to it as the source. D:
P&H was pretty good actually, though I was probably a bit too general in the 10 marker. I talked about the CAT scan of the body but couldn't remember its name.
Minoan Crete was alright, again I may have been too general. Phaestos threw me, but I talked about the disk and a palace (hoping there was actually a Palace of Phaistos?!)
Alexander was good. For the 15 marker I talked about his successes in expanding Greek culture and the unification and hellenization of the known world as it was then, and also Alex's military prowess influencing the strategies and ability of the Macedonian army in generations to come.
Overall I think it was okay. The questions weren't that hard if you studied, though due to the amount of content, it was hard to specialise certain areas of your own knowledge and go off the chance that they'd be in the exam.