[shanay]

hey teachers and students, i am goin to do an edexcel unit 3 paper- life in hitler's germany. I was wondering if there is ny tips or anythin else that you can provide me with, like sites with good statistics/quotes/revision. plz let me know ASAP!!!!! THNX.....and one other thing, my teacher says i am not answering the question, so do u have any specific ideas, tips, hints etc. on how to make myself better? plz help me!!!!! i really need it, thank you teachers/students for reading this, n for ur replies...THNX!!!!!!

[Mr Thorpe]

Here is an excellent site that will help and have links, also remember BBC and others.

[fizzytink]

JohndClare like my life!! id go there to revise
also if you needed help on how to revise i woulg go to your textbook read a section a few times and then without looking at the section write down all you remember.
Hope this helps

[shanay]

Mr Thorpe, on May 2 2007, 12:08 PM, said:

Here is an excellent site that will help and have links, also remember BBC and others.

Yes i have checked this bbc n john dclare, any other options, and also any exam tips....does anyone have an idea of how the question go, like suppose part a marks 20 and tell you to judge somthing, while the 40 marks tell you to write sumthing......this is just an example, any other ideas?! plz let me know, plus tips on answering the question...thnx

[shanay]

i would just like to tell you that our school doesn't have textbooks, we have to use the net.....n we have one book, of which we photocopy, but officially we dont have a textbook.....

[Mr Thorpe]

If you want general tips go to the worksheet section of the main site and there are exceelnt sheets and powerpoints to use. Also www.historyshareforum.com has some excellent sheets and powerpoint on there too (but that is just meant for teachers so shhh!)

[shanay]

Mr Thorpe, on May 3 2007, 10:23 AM, said:

If you want general tips go to the worksheet section of the main site and there are exceelnt sheets and powerpoints to use. Also www.historyshareforum.com has some excellent sheets and powerpoint on there too (but that is just meant for teachers so shhh!)

Hey thank you very much, this looks like a very good website for me, but was i wondering if anyone knows any sites for quotes, and further more, since i have paper 3 first, anything more on that....any kind of help will be appreciated.

Furthermore, my teacher says i am not answering the question, so do u have any specific ideas, tips, hints etc. on how to make myself better?

THNX

[MrJohnDClare]

shanay, on May 3 2007, 02:58 PM, said:

Furthermore, my teacher says i am not answering the question, so do u have any specific ideas, tips, hints etc. on how to make myself better?

Have you come across 'dry stone wall'?
This is the answering technique which says that you repeat the question in the first line of the answer.

SO...
if the question is: 'Why did King William win the battle of Hastings?' you start: 'King William won the battle of Hastings because...'
if the question is: 'How useful is Source B for an historian?' you start: 'The usefulness of Source B for an historian is...'
etc.

It's all very basic KS3 SATs stuff, BUT it CAN give an pupil an edge in circumstances where their answer is very good and fact-ful, and the examiner wants to credit them, but - as your teacher says about you - they aren't really answering the question. The examnier can always look at the first sentence and say: 'But they ARE answering the question'.


The other tip I have here is 'TAKE IT THROUGH'. Make sure your explanations go right through to explicitly answer the question.
In an essay: 'How accurate is Source B?', for instance, many pupils will list the facts that are right and wrong, and explain all kinds of things about the provenance without EVER once saying whether or not this makes it accurate or not! When you are explaining, therefore, just make sure that you take your explanation RIGHT THROUGH to whether or not it is accurate.
The easiest way to do this is to make sure that the words 'therefore' and (in this question) 'accurate' occur in the last sentence of every point you make.

Again, all a bit formulaic, but if you have a problem with this, it just covers you and 'makes sure'.

[shanay]

Hey thank you very much, i have only 1 question, do teachers think inserting quotes makes an essay better? if so then i would like to know sites where i can find them....thnx

[Mr Thorpe]

shanay, on May 4 2007, 11:50 AM, said:

Hey thank you very much, i have only 1 question, do teachers think inserting quotes makes an essay better? if so then i would like to know sites where i can find them....thnx

Quotes are always good as they show that thre has been research around the topic this covers the "and your own knowledge" part. Just remember that you must know what the quote means and that it isn pertinant to the question, otherwise you will discover that meaningless quotes are a red rag to a bull.

There is no specific website that you can get quotes from. Mr DClare's website is great (of course), Sparticus.net is too, wikipedia and any other website. The key point is making sure that you cite where the quote comes from and how it fits in with the answer. Many moons ago when I took my exams, I had a key quote for each of the areas studied memorised and then used some of them.