History Examination (1 Viewer)

[maxwella]

I have a lovely, but vague historian ext teacher who hasn't yet specified what is likely to be in the hsc exam?

Does anybody know what we are likely to be examined on? How many of those source booklet articles do we need to know - because every time I read them I feel like stabbing myself in the eye.

Thanks in advance
Alice

 

[djmattyd]

Well I just had my half yearly the other day, and we were asked 2 HSC style questions but were only expected to comment on historians that we had been taught about. So I'd go over the historians you've been taught about, relating both to historiography and your case study, depending on how far you're into it.

 

[moffat]

ha! ur ext teacher sounds just like mine. my teacher's a jerk who doesnt teach us anything and then marks us really harshly in our assessments.we have our half yearly exam tomorrow

 

[Jennibeans]

HSC exam has 2 questions
Question 1) They give you an article and a question and you respond using the material from the article and the ideas of a variety of historians. Its about the historians' reponse to those 5 questions from the beginning of the unit what is history? how has it changed? etc etc. For HSC you need to know a variety of historians right through from classical to post modern. I went with Thucydides, Bede, Ranke (you're insane if you don't include Ranke), Carr, the Windschuttle/Reynolds debate, Summers and Foucault. Pull out of the provided article stuff about what history is, ideas about objectivity etc and compare these to the historians you've studied.

Question 2) Is about your case study and has more to do with the context of the historians you're writing about than the case study itself. My class did JFK & we had 3 historians, 1 being a colleague of JFK & another being the investigative journalist who exposed My Lai. The idea of this was to compare and contrast the representations of Kennedy and to examine why those differences existed.

I still have my notes from ext history if anyone wants them