Did anyone else do weirdly good on paper 2? Paper 1 i only got a B (46/80), yet Paper 2 (Modern Britain) i managed to get 71/80!! What makes it even weirder is that in every Modern Britain mock we did, i never got above a low-mid C, and yet in the real exam i managed to get 90% and a strong A*, with sources usually being my weakness yet picking up
27/30 in the real thing!!!
i want to start using quotes/interpretations from named historians to back up and develop my points in essays, but where do i find them without reading entire books and how do i format them for revision? i was thinking using flashcards but idk
this also goes for my coursework (i do AQA) and i am using JSTOR and google scholar but i can't find anything specific - should i use different keywords or do something else?
Hi, so I'm doing smth kinda crazy and basically doing all my AS and Alevels in 9 months, and my AS exams are in October. I've been struggling with History since I'm also taking Classical Studies (and have taken my AS for it), and it's very different when it comes to sources/awnsering the questions. I don't attend a school and am wondering if anyone has any source recomadations/advice or their own past high-scoring papers to help. Any advice is greatly appreciated, I need to get an A or an A* and am so stressed :)
(russian rev is paper 1, and paper 2 is industrial rev and french rev/napoleon)
Hey there!
I'm going to be choosing my subjects soon and was wondering if and how hard A level history is (that is, compared to other humanities). Thanks!
I am trying to do my history coursework on the crusades but I cannot find any books available to me. The British Library and other university libraries won’t allow under 18 year olds to read at the institution nor borrow and no local library has academic books on the crusade because who wants to willingly read about the Crusade.
Any suggestions on what I should do?
Did anyone else got really poor marks in P1 but better in other papers? Its insane
It's great to join everyone doing A level history!
As part of our school's summer work, we have been set a Russia source question to complete (we do AQA). I have basic knowledge of the content from the other tasks we have been set, but not given any information on how to answer questions. I'm wondering if I just approach it with the GCSE formula, or if anyone can explain simply how to structure an A level response?
All help is appreciated :)
The source q for reference:
Read the source below. How valuable this source is to a historian studying Nicholas II and his rule of Russia? (This is an A-Level style question, which I will take in for marking in September). (total 30 minutes)
He merely believed what his father and Pobedonostev [his tutor] had installed into him; there would be no Russia without autocracy; Russia and the autocracy were one; he himself was the impersonation of the autocracy. So the magic circle closed. There was no way out, unless it was into disaster and void. Living in the twentieth century, he had the mentality of the Muscovite Kings. The daily work of a monarch he found intolerably boring. He could not stand listening long or seriously to ministers’ reports, or reading them. He liked such ministers as could tell an amusing story and did not weary the monarch’s attention with too much business. When it came to defending his divine right his usual indifference left him, he became cunning, obstinate and cruel, merciless at times. Taken from Alexander Kerensky’s memoirs, Crucifixion of Liberty, written in 1934. Kerensky was a lawyer who became involved in radical politics. In 1905 he spent time in prison for publishing a socialist newspaper. By 1917 he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionaries and was a member of the Provisional Government that ruled Russia following the overthrow of the Tsar. He was himself overthrown by the Bolsheviks in October 1917 and fled to France where he wrote extensively on the Russian Revolution to attempt to explain his understanding of events to the wider world
Ok so basically we have to do coursework right? Well since I don't have much to do over the summer, I decided to speedrun an entire draft in 2 weeks. I chose to do the principal cause of the outbreak of hysteria in salem, so like the witchcraft unit. Anyways one of the historians I chose was Cotton Mather. I did an entire draft and compared him with 2 other historians, one is 19th century one is modern. And then literally last night I found out that Cotton Mather doesn't count as a historian...Yikes!
Anyways I stayed up until 6am going through 5 stages of grief.
And then I got up in the morning and decided to change my historian.
So then I rewrote a good chunk of my sections, mainly the ones that had Cotton Mather.
So hopefully now I have a decent draft 😭
And I also realised smth. After finding out Mather doesn't count, I read through my coursework again and realised the problem anyway. So if ur still in the process of finding ur historians or writing, pls make sure to choose ur historians right 💀
hey guys I’m in y12 and I do britain transformedd and USA boom bust recovery and the 2026 papers come up for my mock. so if anyone could let me know the questions that came up in the exam it would be greatly appreciated thx guys 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hey, does anyone have a Cambridge International AS & A Level History (9849) coursebook in pdf form? I'm doing Modern Europe (1774–1924). If anyone has Hachette Cambridge International AS Level History then it works too. I would really appreciate it if anyone could help me get those resources? I'm looking forward to giving A-Levels next year in May/June Series.
Any book you would suggest to give it a read? Any website or youtube channel which would you recommend?
If you're doing A Levels history then I would love to connect!!
Am going to start self studying AS level history in September, I will probably go with international option but am not sure yet. I will put it about 5 hours of work per week by myself summurizing the book and later doing past papers. I would appreciate it if you guys gave me any advice from your experience. Thank you .
Hey. Just a quick question. I am one mark off an A Star in AQA History, and have requested a remark. However my teachers have told me that my mark only changes if the level of my question changes. E.g I cannot go from 17 to 18/25, as this won’t change anything, but rather only 17—21/25. Only then this would change my mark. Is this true? Thanks :)
I don’t know if I should be focusing on essay plans now bc I haven’t created the timelines I need, but they’re taking so long I just want to start the essay plans, but I feel like I don’t know enough, I’m so stuck someone pls helppp.
I’m about to enter year 13 and I haven’t revised much at all, just a little bit because of coursework (which I still have a LOT to do)
-My teacher told me I made the wrong choice in picking History near the end of yr12
-I got 20/40 for my coursework was disappointed couldn't revise whilst everyone in my class got 28+ (majority being 32-40) and my mark was equivalent to a D during the 2025 grade boundaries. I was so embarrassed and told no one
-I was getting E's and D's all yr12
-Got a D in my end of year mocks yr12 and had a meeting
-Worked my butt off from November yr13 and even harder in march staying up late nights, going to the library from 9am-7pm or 5pm depending on the time and my walk home was my break and from 7pm-2/3am continued to revise.
-Fell behind in content and was forced to learn the whole off Germany in 4 days after having to also revise for two other subjects
-For paper 1 I didn't know how to structure one question, paper 2 ran out of time and had a mental breakdown as i couldn't remember much, didn't finish my source for paper 2 and my paper 3 was decent. Right when i got my coursework my teacher told me that I didn't have the leeway that all the other students had. I was going into my exam with 20 marks meaning i couldn't even miss one question whilst others had 30+ marks and my hands would shake and cried to my tutor one morning thinking ill fail.
-Cried on the way home after each paper and didn't think I'd even get a C (which is what i was aiming for) but still pulled out my text book and worked
Would whip out my calculator and try come up with the highest marks possible knowing I'd most likely scrape a C. Results day came I got an A! Clutched during GCSE's getting 3's and 2's and ended up with a 7 and those in my class who got 16 marks more than me on coursework in alevels, had a head start I ended up getting better grades than.
Your textbook is your best friend! All I had was a laptop, Quizlet, a textbook, a couple documentaries on YouTube relating to my course and a dream! Had i preformed better during coursework i would have gotten an A* and my history teacher said she couldn't have been more proud of me i almost cried. Don't give up you got this
Hi,
I'm a 25-year-old mature student who is self-teaching herself A-levels. I'm self-teaching History A with OCR. Wondered if anyone know where I can go to get tutoring?
Hey guys. For those of you who took AS level sociology this may/June session and scored good grades, please help this potential failure out. What did you guys do to remember all the sociologists and thier arguments? Most importantly how do you actively remember which sociologists come where? We only have about 8ish weeks left for oct/Nov ses. I need to memorise all the arguments...any tips will really help me. I would also really love to know how you structured your answers, at most how many points to write.
Thank you.
Hello,
I was just wondering if anyone knows where to look or if they know anyone who is a good history tutor.
I am doing the edexcel exam board and have just finished yr12.
Thank you!
Need some advice, preparing to rewrite in Oct nov
Hello everyone, I would really appreciate if anyone had any resources, questions, or sacs on Unit 4 geography, I am finding it quite hard to find questions specifically on AOS 1 unit 4. I would really appreciate that as well as any advice on how to approach these types of questions such Malthusian theory as well as population dynamics, thanks
