Section III - Personality (2 Viewers)

[daponisher]

I think Pericles was a very easy set of Questions

a) His relationship with people

b) His achievements

That was straightforward just crapped on about deomcracy, bp, fo, imperialism, fleet, tribute etc, 45 mins exactly

 

[klaratiara]

woo kinship i did that! yea both a and b for hatsheptsut wouldve made great essay questions becuase i could have gone on for ages.
luckily they were my trial questions!! i had to cut down tho, i did it first and made myself stick to the 45 minute plan coz you cant get more than 25, no matter how amazing and long the response is i guess.

 

[jodi..1]

Wtf at question a) for xerxes.

relationship with persians and non-persians haha. I knew this was going to be in there. it was the one thing I didn't study thinking it wasnt going to be in there, and it was, and I knew it was. argh

Ah same. I didn't study it, just briefly read over it, then straining to remember the words I'd read.

 

[vieires]

Caesar's relationship with the senate...yes please!
Could have written all day about that, but I didnt, lol.

Caesar's military achievements

well, I thought I was doing well, then I realised I got a little sidetracked and was talking about them in terms of their importance elsewhere. Not sure I I was supposed to do that :S

 

[Jbass]

what was the agrippina question?

Um...I think they were:

a) Discuss Agrippina the Younger's relationships with Seneca, Burrus and the imperial freedmen. (10M)

b) Assess the achievements of Agrippina. (15M)


They were alright questions. The first was a bit specific, but I suppose it was alright because the 'imperial freedmen' part allowed you to talk about a range of people.
The second question was good and bad. Good = incredibly broad, so you could relate pretty much anything important she did to what she achieved. Bad = the chosen information would have to be pretty selective in order to make an 'assessment', without going too far off the question.

Despite that, I guess it wasn't too bad.

 

[manutd_rock07]

This was definately my best part, then section 4, then 1, then 2. Did Caesar, thought the questions were good, but heaps of people didn't like them. But I think I may have accidentally combined two battles into one, oops

i thought the caesar questions were a gift...
i predicted the relationship with the senate and really all u had to talk about with the military is marius, gallic wars and civil wars ---------> EASY!!

 

[Thalamic Raven]

I think Pericles was a very easy set of Questions

a) His relationship with people

b) His achievements

That was straightforward just crapped on about deomcracy, bp, fo, imperialism, fleet, tribute etc, 45 mins exactly

i didnt think this was easy because it was so vague, you could talk about the whole topic basically. i didnt really focus in on anything because i was making sure i covered as many different aspects as i could.

at first i tried to summarise achievements into democracy and creation of athenian empire but it got so blurred with all information from anything in the topic i could recall and it was just giant blocks of crap. about 8 pages though for the second part, and 3.5 for first so length was aaallllriiiiight

 

[what-for?]

Yeah that was pretty much what I wrote about, for overall success as a pharaoh I incorporated the whole political success of her reign, her administrative abilities, the way that she made an unconventional reign work etc.

same. plus, i threw in a quote from Tyldesley which summed it up nicely: "Hatshepsut's reign, characterised by economic prosperity, monumental building, and foreign exploration, seems to confirm her competence."
i had 5 broad qualities and expanded on them:
- retained stability
- glorified the gods
- increased prosperity
- potecting/defending kingdom
- hatshepsut's legacy.


the relationship with TIII was an essay i learnt before hand so i totally regurgitated that.

 

[Adam.Meads]

HATSHEPSUT....was alright.. B) was VERY broad...
a) had been asked b4 and was to long for 10 mark question!!

I was hoping for a qtn on building program.... but oh well...

3 exams to gooo...WOO...lol

I thought (a) wasnt too bad, nor was it long for a 10 mark Q. My opinion though!