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I have a history exam in the morning, done very little studying, but I seem to have a knack for remembering things from history so I'm only partially worried.

I know most of you won't care, but I would love to come on here before I go and discover this thread full of hopeful messages or pictures of hot women will do too.

Well, I suppose it will be wise to get 6-8 hours of sleep before the exam.

Cya in hell

I have a history exam in the morning, done very little studying, but I seem to have a knack for remembering things from history so I'm only partially worried.

I know most of you won't care, but I would love to come on here before I go and discover this thread full of hopeful messages or pictures of hot women will do too.

Well, I suppose it will be wise to get 6-8 hours of sleep before the exam.

Cya in hell

"Now, boys, lie low, you know, and let 'em come up close, you know, and then rise up and give 'em hell, you know."

-Major General Philip H. Sheridan, Union leader, Lookout Mountain

I never studied for history exams either. I never had below an A in it.

I LOVE History, it's my favorite subject.

School or Uni?

I found history at school rather underwhelming. When we did WWI, in the first lesson the teacher asked us what we knew about it, and I told her.
A 15 minute monologue covering more stuff than what we did in the whole time.

How much, by the way, percentagewise is non-American history taught in High School in the States? 50/50? 10/90?

School or Uni?

I found history at school rather underwhelming. When we did WWI, in the first lesson the teacher asked us what we knew about it, and I told her.
A 15 minute monologue covering more stuff than what we did in the whole time.

How much, by the way, percentagewise is non-American history taught in High School in the States? 50/50? 10/90?
Well we have US history in 8th grade, in 9th we have world geography, 10th is World History, 11th is US History agian, and I think 12 is US gov'mt. Of course other history classes are also available such as Humanities, cultures, European History, etc.

There will be no Dunkirk here boys!

School or Uni?

I found history at school rather underwhelming. When we did WWI, in the first lesson the teacher asked us what we knew about it, and I told her.
A 15 minute monologue covering more stuff than what we did in the whole time.

How much, by the way, percentagewise is non-American history taught in High School in the States? 50/50? 10/90?
Were you in Australia or Germany doing your history?

How much, by the way, percentagewise is non-American history taught in High School in the States? 50/50? 10/90?

Judging by my correspondence and my friend's homework (and what he tells me about his classes), American history is by far the biggest part of History as a whole. I'd say about 80/20.

I think it's disgusting, considering that they teach you things about people and events that really didn't matter, when you could be learning about Asian, African, and European history. IMPORTANT stuff, unlike a lot of American history.

Yeah, we really need to learn about one more fucking family that settled in the West, or one more guy who went down the Mississippi. Teach us about Chinese philosophers instead.

I have a history exam in the morning, done very little studying, but I seem to have a knack for remembering things from history so I'm only partially worried.

I know most of you won't care, but I would love to come on here before I go and discover this thread full of hopeful messages or pictures of hot women will do too.

Well, I suppose it will be wise to get 6-8 hours of sleep before the exam.

Cya in hellOnly because you asked.
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Were you in Australia or Germany doing your history?
Well, to be honest, I wasn't at a very good school in Germany. Our teachers kept getting pregnant and leaving, so we kept getting new ones and in the process my class (what a bunch of morons too) missed out on...well, almost everything. What I wouldn't have given to get one male teacher for a change.
But yes, I was in Germany at the time.

In Australia I only came in late, and I didn't choose History as a subject (I don't think it was offered, actually).

Well, to be honest, I wasn't at a very good school in Germany. Our teachers kept getting pregnant and leaving, so we kept getting new ones and in the process my class (what a bunch of morons too) missed out on...well, almost everything. What I wouldn't have given to get one male teacher for a change.
But yes, I was in Germany at the time.

In Australia I only came in late, and I didn't choose History as a subject (I don't think it was offered, actually).
I probably knew more about WWII before taking History but not by much.
I knew relativly nothing of WWI to be honest and it isn't really in the curiculum to actually teach about wars but more about the British home front.-New Zealand didn't have many authour' or publishers prepared to write or print for Schools, but things might be changing.....

I wouldn't be surprised Australia and Australians are generally uncultured.

Where are you?
*Stalks*

You must not have gone to a very good High in Oz, then, Neu. I got my good three years of History in HS in WA, went on and got my Bachelor's from University of Western Australia.

Since then I've been consistantly surprised by what each country I've been to considers important in their history. It's never what you would expect.

Only because you asked.
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just remember to always link back to the question.

begin a point, lead on from the last
substantiate it
evidence/facts
evaluate
link back to how it relates to the question, say why it's important

do that for every paragraph/point you make, and not knowing anything or not having done much revision shouldn't be a problem. got me through two years of uni never having gone to a single lecture (and only the mandatory seminars) in two of my modules :)

just don't forget to string it all together and say that you can't reach a single conclusion because there are too many factors... thats always the answer! :p (as long as you evaluate why of course)

good luck!

I also have a history exam, although on Monday. The module name is:

"Disenchantment of the early modern European world", and is about how and why people began to reject magic, superstition and old classical beliefs about science and begin to become more rational and scientific.

I've tried to study...but i've never done so before in my life, so don't know how to concentrate really. It's a university exam so bound to be quite hard, but on the other hand it's only my first year and no marks from my first year count towards my degree. I only need 40% to pass, so I don't need to get a great mark.

I've done history up to A-level

for those of you in other countries who may not know what this means i've done it up to the level before I do my degree.

up till GCSE (the level before A-level) we only did british history (and then only in a vague way) then at GCSE we did WWI, WWII, the depression, Weimar republic, Coldwar and womens lib so we did quite a lot of foreign history (mainly american and german)

At A-level I did early modern history, we had 3 modules a year and the course was 2 years, we did the otoman empire and the renaisance in italy for one module (you got a choice of which bit you did in the exam), King Charles the first and personal rule/civil war for the first year. The second year we did oliver cromwell, Religion and as a third module we did the rule by cromwell and parliament and then the restoration up to willaim and mary.

so we did a 6th of our course on forign history at A-level (unless you count island or the bits we did about the european origins of the religious split)