Ancient History Predictions/Thoughts (7 Viewers)

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

and its not even the two most important battles, its just two mid ones

YEAH RIGHT, first q for my section was js like id argue the most irrelevant pharaohs of the study, what is nesa doing

 

[Cute-Duckie]

yeah, i did the second q for my section, but for the first q it was like evaluate the role of post amarna pharaohs up to the death of horemheb, and w that there's only like 2 main pharaohs you can really talk about in depth (there are like 5 main pharaohs overall in the syllabus). idk why nesa r narrowing the scope of these essay qs so much

yeah like i just feel like there was way less to write on this year for the essays ngl

 

[Cute-Duckie]

YEAH RIGHT, first q for my section was js like id argue the most irrelevant pharaohs of the study, what is nesa doing

the first q was horrible but we didnt study the topics on the second q until after trials so no way was i doing that bs

 

[nitroexcalibur]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

 

[Cute-Duckie]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

i hope scaling is good, i feel like imma be on the edge of a band 6 so fingers crossed

 

[billy10101]

and its not even the two most important battles, its just two mid ones

i dont think i answered the question properly artemesium is so mid

 

[earlgreyteawithmilkfoam]

if it helps tbh I definitely think the difficulty curve has increased this year over last year for the paper so it probably will scale in our favour (even tho ancient scaling isn’t incredible to begin with)

ahhh yeah really hoping alignment is hopefully better than last yr

 

[Cute-Duckie]

i dont think i answered the question properly artemesium is so mid

samee omg, i legit said "the battles were not successful in the short-term, however in the long-term they allowed the Greeks to win the second Greco-Persian war through advantages gained from Thermopylae and Artemisium at the battle of Salamis" like bro so much yap

 

[billy10101]

samee omg, i legit said "the battles were not successful in the short-term, however in the long-term they allowed the Greeks to win the second Greco-Persian war through advantages gained from Thermopylae and Artemisium at the battle of Salamis" like bro so much yap

am i cooked if i talked about leadership and strategies in other battles, i somewhat related to question !

 

[radagastthebrown]

i hope scaling is good, i feel like imma be on the edge of a band 6 so fingers crossed

Hopefully everyone else in my cohort did well, my rank is abysmal, so despite my confidence in today's test I could get absolutely shafted.

 

[Cute-Duckie]

am i cooked if i talked about leadership and strategies in other battles, i somewhat related to question !

if your points answered the question hopefully youll be okay

 

[Cute-Duckie]

Hopefully everyone else in my cohort did well, my rank is abysmal, so despite my confidence in today's test I could get absolutely shafted.

yeah im praying that my cohort clutched up too and that they mark easy ngl, hopefully u did well today and itll push u up a bunch

 

[billy10101]

hope my cohort did good, i did not cook for the other sections other than personalities i think

 

[Gods_Spear]

That exam was hella nice, pomp and herc was sorta a lay up, and all my other ones had very easy nice questions, Im very happy

 

[Gods_Spear]

My teacher was feeling bad for the Julio Claudians, apparantly it wasnt great, my heart goes out to you Augustus was quite nice. Also all my predictions were wrong went 0/16

 

[billy10101]

That exam was hella nice, pomp and herc was sorta a lay up, and all my other ones had very easy nice questions, Im very happy

i might have been the only person that messed up this test

 

[nitroexcalibur]

My teacher was feeling bad for the Julio Claudians, apparantly it wasnt great, my heart goes out to you Augustus was quite nice. Also all my predictions were wrong went 0/16

My teacher didn’t like the Julio Claudians one either, because the death of Augustus one really was a huge trap that talks mostly about his reforms + changing role of princeps, etc

I did the other one on the success of the rulers and said Claudius, which I had an easier time doing

 

[Serenawilder]

wh


which question did you answer for greek world!!

I did second one even though it was a bit harder but I preferred Development of Athens anyway

 

[Serenawilder]

My essay probably wasn't that great. I sorta did a huge paragraph on Pericles' legislation (Payment of the Jurors, Zeigutae to Archonship, reducing power of the areopagus-->Boule, Ecclesia, etc).
Then I tried desperately to link the Delian League --> Athenian Empire to the question since I studied so much on that, so I mostly spoke about how the Delian Leagues transformation to the Athenian empire was key to the preservation of democracy in Athens, since they were facing threats not only from the Persian Empire, but also the oligarchic Peloponnese.
Third one I tried to say that Pericles' development of Athens was crucial to the increasing public participation (thus developing democracy) among the lower classes (building Parthenon required artisans and lower class labourers). The 'Golden Age' of Athens also highlighted the success of a democractic system of government, (idk if that's relevant tho).

I think the question was 'How significant were the key developments of democracy in the Greek World 500-440 BCE'

I AM GLAD SOMEONE ELSE BOUGHT IN DELIAN LEAGUE because I studied so much for it and ain’t no way was I not gonna use it

 

[Serenawilder]

i might have been the only person that messed up this test

No it’s okay I messed up too 🥹