[lfc4lyf]

Ive got my 2nd history paper on Thursday 11th June 2009
i am doing the aqa specification option b:Britain 1815-1851
i have no notes or revision guides and cant find any revision websites that contain any revision materials for this topic.
i read the aqa spec and there are 5 parts that i need to revise they are: part 1:the vote. part 2:the poor. part 3:population and migration. part 4: social reform. part 5: the railways.

any help would be appreciated as i need a good grade in history XXXXXXXXX

[MrJohnDClare]

OK
The GOOD news is that you have not left it too late!
You still have PLENTY time to get a good grade.

FIRST
immediately, you need to get hold of a copy of this book:
Britain 1815-1851: A Study in Depth (Discovering the Past for GCSE) by Dave Martin (ISBN 0719574781)

Phone up your local library now and ask if they have a copy in stock - then you can go down, join and take it out.
If they haven't, then you'll need to go into school on Monday and get one off your teacher.
I'll be am... am... amazed if there isn't a copy at school.
That book is your first step to revision.
Just sit down and read it, the whole thing, thinking about the questions/exercises as you read.
It ought to take you a day or two's work if you work hard at it.

Phone up your library NOW before it closes.

[MrJohnDClare]

SECOND
There are no good revision materials available on the web.
This document highlights the key issues.

But you will have to remember your facts and ideas from the textook.

Does your teacher not have a set of revision notes - or could you photocopy a friend's?

[MrJohnDClare]

THIRDLY
Use this webpage to look at some past papers/questions and the markschemes.
You need Unit 2B.
The past papers/questions will give you an idea of the KIND of questions that will come up.
The markschemes will then give you some kind of idea about how the examiner wants you to answer them.

Looking at the first question, it strikes me that they are mainline sourcework skills - extraction (what does it say), comparison of sources, utility (how useful) and do you agree with an interpretation.

The second question seems to be more knowledge-and-understanding - a factual knowledge question, explain why, and how important.

If you do not know how to approach any of these questions, add a post onto this thread asking and we will be able to give you guidance.

[lfc4lyf]

thanks for your help ill go n see in library
Ive asked my teacher but she said she cant give it to me to take home ...

[MrJohnDClare]

lfc4lyf, on Jun 6 2009, 01:21 PM, said:

ill go n see in library

Phone them first - you may save yourself a wasted journey.
You'll be able to get the phone number off the internet.

Quote

Ive asked my teacher but she said she cant give it to me to take home ...

She is talking nonsense.
Get your mum to phone the school and ask specifically for you to borrow a copy.
You can even offer to put a deposit on it.
But you MUST have that book.

[lfc4lyf]

the library isnt picking up
what am i going to doooooo!!!!!!

[MrJohnDClare]

lfc4lyf, on Jun 6 2009, 01:39 PM, said:

the library isnt picking up
what am i going to doooooo!!!!!!

Don't panic - keep trying.
If necessary, you'll have to go down, but it would be better to phone first.
You best bet is the school on Monday.

[lfc4lyf]

i went to the library and they didnt have that book
but the man gave me a book named the young oxford history of britain and ireland
will it help?

[MrJohnDClare]

No.
I advise you to go to school on Monday and insist that they give you a textbook to revise.
Whatever has happened in the past, you want to revise now, and they cannot expect you to achieve anything without something to revise from.
Also see if the teacher has any revision notes/guidance which you have missed.

If necessary, go to the Headteacher.

And don't worry - Monday is plenty time still to revise and do well.

Best of luck - tell us how you get along!

[lfc4lyf]

thank you xxxxxxxxxx

[lfc4lyf]

i was on the net and found a website which literally contains everything you need for the aqa spec a option b its called
http://www.victorian...tory/hist2.html
very helpful

[MrJohnDClare]

Well found and thanks for sharing it with us.