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    fuck that was easy

    because that is how they determine the scaled mean of the EXAM.. they look at how the candidature goes overall their 10 units, do some shit with stats etc, and thats how they measure teh capability of the people doing that subject, ie people doing 4u maths would generally do pretty well overall...
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    fuck that was easy

    overall means over all of their 10 units.. *duh*
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    fuck that was easy

    the scaling of the exam has nothing to do with how easy it is.. it depends on how everyone goes overall.. the Board doesnt scale marks anyway, they align them depending on how people met the criteria for each band.. if the exam was easy, it might mean that we are just real good at modern...
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    Crime Fiction and the importance of techniques

    in crime fiction u dun have to bullshit as much abt how techniques convey meaning an shit.. more just talk abt the different techniques used in the texts, compare the changes over time etc theyre good to use when discussing film noir, different sub genres and their conventions
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    Cold War

    no that sounds pretty spot on.. i didnt know enough in detail on talks and stuff to do that, so just kinda led the question in a different direction..
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    how may pages?

    got 12 for Russia, 13 for Trotsky 13 for Cold War damn messy writing tho.. i really hope they can read it.. they really should give more room in the WW1 sections too.. like they say you only "need" that much room to answer, but its hard to think concisely when ur on the run..
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    Cold War

    yeah they were very narrow questions.. not my favourite.. i did A) and talked abt the ineffectiveness of any attempts at limitation, as nuclear weapons were the cornerstone of both US and USSR foreign policies in the war, and the success of arms limitations would depend on hte atmosphere at...
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    Revision - the failure of the NEP (Russia/Sovet Union)

    modernisation was never a leftinst economics policy, it was pretty much the central element in the ideology and politics of the CPSU... the NEP was a temporary reversion to aspects of capitalism, and it failed to produce the booming economy or modernisation that the Bolsheviks needed for the...
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    RUSSIA- groups

    talk about how Trotsky and Lenin saw terrorism and communism as invariably linked, ie "how can we succeed without the most cruel terror" and how they used the Secret Police groups to enforce the harsh policies which they saw as necessary for success of the "revolution" which is really just...
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    ww1 question

    after the Germans were stopped dead at the Marne, they started the "race to the sea" where each side tried to outflank the other, up towards the Channel Ports, by the end there were trenches from the Swiss Alps in the SOuth all the way up to the English Channel the thing is, for WW1, thers...
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    Cold war game!

    because detente ended.. Reagan came into power in the US, hyped up the anti commie rhetoric, upped the ante in propaganda and the arms race the hawkish elements in the Kremlin saw the US as weakening in their stance on containment, as the US supported Shah in Iran was outed by teh...
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    writing with blue pen

    it says u can write in blue or black pen on the front of the exam, so no, htey will not punish u for what pen u used
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    Extension 2 English Question

    its cos us Extension 2 English people are deemed skilled and intelligent enough to manage 2, 3, and 4unit english.. apparently theyve marked our 4u things already too..
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    q bout band 6

    1993?? i just did that today.. wouldnt say its hard.. the question ten was basic compared to most of hte other ones.
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    Cold war game!

    i really hope they dont ask anythign on Summit meetings.. its such a weak topic.. yeah they reduced tensions by allowing diplomatic negotiations, arms reductions, discussions and shit to take place.. argh, i hate it in modern wen they give u a question thas really not wat u wanted...
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    pages?

    dont u think itd be better to make the most of every second u have in hte exam.. write as fast and as much as u can to cover all the aspects of the rubric and question so the marker is forced to give u full marks.. and if u write 2 oe 3 words per line the marker will probably thing, great, i...
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    My exam prediction

    what do you do to study i just been reading over everything a lot.. mite do some practice essays writing notes for modern never really appealed to me
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    My exam prediction

    its pretty likely that theyll ask 2 broader questions this year though, as they are sposed to be "unpredictable" the last 2 years asking crisis questions, ppl are gonna think they dun have to study nethign else..
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    pages?

    yeah thats bad.. no one could ever write 6 typed pages out in 40 minutes.. no wonder all the exemplar samples are typed
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    pages?

    bout 12, 11, 15.. reasonably big writing tho.. like 5 words per line.. how good were the questions tho ey..
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