CSSA Ancient History Trial (2 Viewers)

[Annalisee]

Thoughts?


EPIC FAIL

 

[DaveYoung]

I thought it was a very fair exam, although I should've studied Xerxes more. I'll get either in the high 60's or low 70's. Still, anyone who did adequate study should've found it easy. I did a bit of study yesterday only and still managed to answer most questions quite confidently.

 

[Matt1120]

I liked it. Was fair. i messed up in Israel for section II forgot the names of the Women but apart from that it was good

 

[BoyNextDoor]

It was pretty fair. Apart for the questions for Section IV. The fact that its an essay and its worth 25 marks!

 

[agrxx]

What topics did everyone wish they'd studied harder for?
I found Augustan Age hard because I hardly studied it, if you do AA, what did you include in your answers?

Does anyone do Akhenaten? What did you write for your answers? I thought the questions were alright

 

[iheartpie]

What topics did everyone wish they'd studied harder for?
I found Augustan Age hard because I hardly studied it, if you do AA, what did you include in your answers?

I didn't like the Augustan Age questions, i did the one on the settlements. I didn't know much so i spoke about how he used the power he got from them to change things ... hopefully worth some marks

I didn't know anything about the forms of Julius Caesar ... made it all up, a lot of people at my school had the same problem. Hopefully I did ok in the core bit.

 

[xeuyrawp]

What were the Egyptian questions?

 

[dat202hoe]

So far in all of my exams, time management seems to be a big issue.

Ran out of time for the Hannibal question and the Rome 264-133 question.

Oh well. Aiming for 70-75%.

 

[schmani]

What topics did everyone wish they'd studied harder for?
I found Augustan Age hard because I hardly studied it, if you do AA, what did you include in your answers?

It was a fair paper but i need to memorise more sources... i made up some.. XD

I did the settlements question, and included what he got in the settlement - ie; legitimate power, so he wasn't seen as a dictator and how he managed to gain total control of the empire through his power, and his control over the armed provinces/army.

 

[agrxx]

I did settlements too, I don't think I included much lol I'll really need to work on it for the HSC
how did you find cities of V & Akhenaten anyone? I want to know what people wrote I'm getting a bit paranoid about ittt

 

[SpoonSamba]

section 1 - pomp n herc - yeh i thought that was a pretty good lot of questions, did reasonably well. LOVED the first question lol

section 2 - Athenian Society - Easy except the 8 marker, which i just didnt know and so i guessed.

section 3 - Ramesses II - the question on the building scheme was ok, the modern images thing like WTF i had no idea what to write, also i could only remember one historian and his name is Assman, and that is y i remember him. got no idea what his argument was.

section 4 - julio claudians - changing role of princeps, i did like 10 minutes of study for this topic this morning, pretty effective 10minutes i reckon i did alright in this section.

all my exams r now done

 

[xeuyrawp]

section 3 - Ramesses II - the question on the building scheme was ok, the modern images thing like WTF i had no idea what to write, also i could only remember one historian and his name is Assman, and that is y i remember him. got no idea what his argument was.

What was the picture?

 

[thommy]

section 1 - pomp n herc - yeh i thought that was a pretty good lot of questions, did reasonably well. LOVED the first question lol

section 2 - Athenian Society - Easy except the 8 marker, which i just didnt know and so i guessed.

section 3 - Ramesses II - the question on the building scheme was ok, the modern images thing like WTF i had no idea what to write, also i could only remember one historian and his name is Assman, and that is y i remember him. got no idea what his argument was.

section 4 - julio claudians - changing role of princeps, i did like 10 minutes of study for this topic this morning, pretty effective 10minutes i reckon i did alright in this section.

all my exams r now done

I literally stared at the first question for about 3 minutes straight, just imagin if the whole exam was that easy! It was ridiculous, no complaints though lol!

 

[Ramboysf5]

section 1 - pomp & herc. if i had bothered to study more, i would of answered the first 2 questions confidently, the 3rd one about conservation the teacher gave us a hint it would be about that so i studied that so i answered it adequately.

section 2 - minoans, left it too late, didn't study accordingly... i had like 5 exams in a row and couldnt study on weekend as i was studying for maths.

section 3 - hannibal, decent, coulda done more if i knew the battle orders, realised after re-reading from a text book i got some battles mixed up.

section 4 - thought i would mind blank on the essay but ended up writing 5 pages.

hoping for 75+% =/ half yearlies i did really bad as i was away the week info on exams were given out, so i hope i redeem myself this time as i have studied.

 

[DaveYoung]

section 1 - pomp & herc. if i had bothered to study more, i would of answered the first 2 questions confidently

The first question had the answer like 5cm above it!

And I'm surprised everyone does such a random group of topics.
We do Spartan society, Greek time period (500-440BC) and Xerxes. It's awesome as everything overlaps so we can use the same info/sources in all of the sections.

 

[Cam O]

Wow my first post ever!
Usually I just like reading whatever you all have to say about things, but today I thought I may as well contribute.
I don't know about other areas, but for Historical Periods the question was great and simple- "Why did Greece win the Persian Wars" didn't even have to think on that that one
Un fortunately I cancelled that good bit out for bombing on Hatshepsut, even though we just did it in class like a week before.
So not too unhappy, like I was in Maths the other day.That was a true bomb!

 

[xeuyrawp]

Wow my first post ever!
Usually I just like reading whatever you all have to say about things, but today I thought I may as well contribute.
I don't know about other areas, but for Historical Periods the question was great and simple- "Why did Greece win the Persian Wars" didn't even have to think on that that one
Un fortunately I cancelled that good bit out for bombing on Hatshepsut, even though we just did it in class like a week before.
So not too unhappy, like I was in Maths the other day.That was a true bomb!

Welcome to the forum!

You may find that you did better in the Hatshepsut section than you think.

 

[Cam O]

Hey man thanks for the encouragement we'll just see...

 

[DaveYoung]

"Why did Greece win the Persian Wars" didn't even have to think on that that one

Yeah, that was a great question. Problem is I focused on the obscure things instead of the simple facts.

For example I went into detail about how Themistocles convinced Athens to build triremes ("wooden walls"), but I don't think I even mentioned the Battle of Plataea which was the most important battle of the Persian wars...argh.

 

[candisnap]

I thought it was pretty straightforward, just like modern was
ha i kept thinking that first question for P+H was a trick question

I had a feeling that the personalities one would be on historical interpretation, lucky though.
The question on the reasons for victory was good, considering thats the only thing i studied for Greece.
should try not to do that next time....