The Homework Help Thread

[Guevara01]

I did that as well. Answered a question that was supposed to be on the Renaissance on something completely different

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[TabbyCool]

You did GCSE History of Medicine too? That was the only part of the course that was actually remotely interesting.

ETA: And the Indian Sun Dance, where the Sioux men would hook stuff through their skin and hang from it... though people still do that today... :?

I didn't do GCSE history of medicine, we didn't do anything as interesting as that! The medical history stuff was just something we did for a couple of weeks in year 8 or year 9 history. Didn't know you could do a GCSE in history of medicine!

[Ms Becky]

It was Investigating History officially - American West, History of Medicine, some boring Ireland stuff, oh and something about castles... I can't remember.

[Emma_B]

I'm thinking maybe they didn't actually mark that paper, but just pulled little bits of paper from a hat to assign grades. I know for a fact that I answered a really long question on the completely wrong time period, so couldn't possibly get any marks for it, yet still got an A*. How does that work?!

One of my AS-Level units was the French Revolution, a stupidly difficult topic. I studied it again this year at Uni and it wasn't as difficult as year12. But anyway, half the course was hard, half was absolutely impossible. Every year since the beginning of time, the paper had been 2 questions, one on each period, roughly. So, those of us who had another difficult exam that afternoon (Chemistry and Eng Lit, of all things, both on the same day as history ) only revised half of the sourse in huge detail. We got into the exam, opened the paper and GAAAAH both questions were on the second half of the course. Huge panic, I spent five minutes of the hour long paper (we had to write 2 essays in an hour) sitting, staring at the page, nearly in tears.

I wrote absolute rubbish, most of the dates were wrong and some of it was just completely inaccurate. The thing is, though, you pick up a lot of marks for having a strong, well-structured argument, even if the argument itself is dubious (to say the least ). I got a mid-B for that paper and still got my overall A grade for the AS-Level. History is good like that - you get marks for writing well.

But still, never rely on just learning half the stuff, you will regret it. I have come out of every history exam since GCSE in tears, but aftre that we were all hysterical, even the boys!

[MarMar]

I know what you mean. I scored very good on my lit. mid-term (got an A), and some of the feedback was that I had a good language.

[Ms Becky]

Everyone did something similar to that for psychology in January, and all of them are re-sitting.

I always thought history was more to do with accuracy than fluency, perhaps I should've taken that instead of chemistry

[Tamxxx]

Ok,this is such a simple homework but for some reason im finding it hard to do basically you have to write as many facts about alaska as you can.Thanks in advance :D

[TabbyCool]

Ok,this is such a simple homework but for some reason im finding it hard to do basically you have to write as many facts about alaska as you can.Thanks in advance :D

Have you tried doing a Google search on Alaska?

You could also try Wikipedia. I know it's not very reliable for current, trivial stuff (like H&A), but it can be quite useful for finding out other info.

Try this... Alaska facts & trivia

[Tamxxx]

Ok,this is such a simple homework but for some reason im finding it hard to do basically you have to write as many facts about alaska as you can.Thanks in advance :D

Have you tried doing a Google search on Alaska?

You could also try Wikipedia. I know it's not very reliable for current, trivial stuff (like H&A), but it can be quite useful for finding out other info.

Try this... Alaska facts & trivia

Thanks

[Cal]

I did the rest of my Calculas today. It is so hard.

I have to learn The product rule, the Qouitent rule and the Chain rule!!

I really hate maths!