History - #JC2017 - Ellen Kenny
Ellen Kenny - Meánscoil Mhuire LongfordI thought history went really well today. The mock exam was definitely a good prediction for what would come up in the real thing, like how a person living in Rome came up for both exams and the renaissance came up for both in question 6. I was a bit discouraged when Martin Luther didn't come up as a people in history question, but I was able to get enough information together to write about a factory worker. I've always really liked history so I'm glad the questions allowed me to act to the best of my ability. I have only three left now, so I'm definitely anticipating the moment when I finally walk out of my last exam! #StateExams2017
History - #JC2017 - Luke Casserly
Luke Casserly - St. Mel's CollegeHistory is by far my favourite subject, so I was looking forward to this paper.I started off with Q6 and did Social Change in the 20th Century which I feel is pretty much common sense, I just hope I wasn't too vague! Then I did International Relations in the 20th Century which was grand - it's probably my favourite part of the course.After that I answered all of the short questions, the Document question and the source question which were very straight forward. Then, I started into Q4, People in History. I was raging to find out my favourites, Martin Luther and George Washington didn't come up but I settled for picking "A person who received land in a named plantation" for A and "A person working in a factory or coal mine during the industrial revolution" for B. I regret not doing these earlier as I was running out of time and ended up having to rush them. I'm just hoping I put enough in to pick up the marks! I finished off by really quickly by doing the picture question which was straight forward like usual.Overall I'm really happy with history! I just hope I put enough into my people in history answers!!Check out more exam blogs here: http://issu.ie/the-issu-exam-blogs-2017/Want to win a €100 One4All gift card? Fill out this survey: https://docs.google.com/a/issu.ie/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffcmquGrgDKNJYdU9wnsBNSWGu8jwEHv6gGdik-y0KtcgnMw/viewform#StateExams2017
History - #JC2017 - Olivia Whelan
Olivia Whelan - Meánscoil Mhuire LongfordIn all, I really enjoy history, but like many others, coming up to a history exam I always get nervous as it's one of the more 'bulky' and 'heavy subjects. History always has me under pressure the night before studying.I was really hoping there would be a good selection of questions on this years paper.The exam began with the picture and document questions. These aren't too difficult as you're asked to refer back and get your answer from the passage or relate it to the picture. These questions were easily answered. Then followed 20 short questions where we had to answer 10, I did my best 10 with a few extra ones to be sure.Then it came to the people in history question, myself like others were hoping for Martin Luther or maybe another named person we had studied, but this year we were asked for example "a woman living in a names civilisation outside of Ireland" this is a very broad topic but I managed it well. After the two accounts , we had to read sources and answer questions , this went well and at the end we were asked to give a small account on a topic , we were very lucky to receives topics exactly to the mocks.Question 6 then my favourite section as I love Irish history , was to my favour very similar again to the mock , I was delighted with this and finished the exam with the renaissance and Irish history question. Overall I thought it was a very good paper. #StateExams2017
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Katelyn - Higher Level
History was very good this year. The first three questions were grand and handy. I was very pleased with question four, the people in history question. Martin Luther and Columbus came up and I knew them inside out. Happy out. Question five was fine. It was on the Plantations. Nothing too challenging there. For question six, the Renaissance and WW2 came up so that suited me down to the ground. Overall, a good paper. Please note: blog posts reflect the opinion of the author and not necessarily the opinion of the Irish Second-Level Students’ Union. Blogs are updated daily by 6.30 pm on scheduled examination dates.