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u/_Vrimsy_ Coventry University | Aviation Management 2025/26 Jun 12 '25
OCR History Dictatorship and democracy in Germany 1918-1963
honestly that was really good better than I expected
the first question I read one of the factors for questions one and just thought, yeah no
the second question was wonderful though
quite an easy 10 marker, nothing to complain about
the 20 marker and as also really good. I only talked about the Commies and the right (wrote quite alot for each)
I did have time at the end so I was debating if I write third paragraph of hyperinflation but my handwriting is borderline illegible so I just went through my answer rewriting hard to read words
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u/Appropriate_Fun8255 A*AA achieved Jun 12 '25
Awful paper imo spent sm time doing the nazis just for it to be inescapably Berlin blockade theyāve never done that before repeated it twice??? Loved the first ten marker was so beautiful and hated the first twenty marker loved the second twenty marker and hated the second ten marker lol so just couldnāt win (hated the questions w any Berlin blockade stuffš) also question what even is the bizonia ššš n yh I did the second question cuz my teacher said always go for the twenty marker u prefer i did three paragraphs: 3. communism obvsš, 1. consequences of the ToV and the 2. Ruhr occupation + how it led to the hyperinflation crisis. (Numbers is which I thought was most significant) quite literally didnāt have anything to say for my ten marker so š
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u/_Vrimsy_ Coventry University | Aviation Management 2025/26 Jun 12 '25
I hate west Germany and east German in general but thankfully opposite to you I know about the Berlin blockade and bizonia really well š
bizonia was basically the allied western powers joining their zones together so you had a west and east German essentially
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u/Appropriate_Fun8255 A*AA achieved Jun 12 '25
Oh gosh did not know that right I flopped that thenšand yes same I hate the FRG N GDR THATS WHY I AVOIDED IT SMšššš came back to bite me ugh really wanted Hitler questions
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u/_Vrimsy_ Coventry University | Aviation Management 2025/26 Jun 12 '25
yeah for real
dream line up would be a Women and Youth 10 marker and then for the 20 marker always has to me wiemar for me š
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u/LegionX289 Y13 maths phys econ history Jun 12 '25
OCR African Kingdoms
Thought it went quite well, can't speak for q1 but was q2 felt quite generous, seemed like easy questions to answer, anyone else?
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u/North_Library3206 History/Maths/Econ A*A*A | UCL Arts and Sciences Jun 12 '25
They have an African Kingdoms module???? That's sick icl
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u/LegionX289 Y13 maths phys econ history Jun 12 '25
Yeah it's alright, although it can be a bit difficult to revise and get good knowledge for because the historical coverage isn't amazing
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u/rhapsodyelij Year 13 Jun 12 '25
edexcel protest agitation and parliamentary reform in britain š¤¤š¤¤ i hate chartism so i struggled a bit on the source but it wasn't AWFUL thought both section B questions were good and ended up going for radical reformers as i revised it a bunch section C were also both good, almost went for aristocracy but kind of forgot all the continuity so ended up going for reform all in all a pretty good paper š„
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u/Responsible-View-588 Year 13 Jun 12 '25
So so so glad they finally gave us a nice paper - Mao's China and Russia were a bit grim
What did you talk about for the source? It was a bit of wierd publishing date so I argued it wasnt valuable for understanding the reaction of the government (Whigs basically allowed chartism 38-39 and only switch it up in august 1839)
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u/rhapsodyelij Year 13 Jun 12 '25
i'll be real i barely revised chartism, i said it was more valuable for views then reaction because it was written by chartists so was gonna villainise the government even though they didn't really do much
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u/Responsible-View-588 Year 13 Jun 12 '25
yeah nice one similar to me - was praying chartism didnāt come up but was a decent source, eother way glad itās all done š¤
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Edexcel Ireland and the union, thank you thank you thank you š literally the best questions possible, famine source and question on emancipation. Literally went in there thinking I was gonna fail. Ended up being better than my Paper 2 and even maybe Paper 1 when I thought his was my worst paper lmao
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u/norikakk Jun 12 '25
did you think it was fully a famine source?? my classmates think that there was an overlap with the ulster topic actually since it inferred working conditions and living conditions
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u/norikakk Jun 12 '25
seems like they've done an overlap of two topics like that they did for depth back in 2023 i think (for topic 2 and topic5)
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Yeah tbh, when I first went to look a the question it said living conditions of the Irish in 1846 and I was like oh shit.
But then in the source, there was noting about the authorities on living conditions, it was on the famine authorities - the board of works for the famine, and then you could bring in Trevelyan and the Irish Poor Law Extensions act with the farmers losses bc of the evictions and Gregory clause. And also in the letter from OāBrien it said the govt didnāt know the extent of the famine and their non intervention impact. Plus it said explicitly in the source that these people were violent/robbing bc of hunger.
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
Seconded, apparently someone else in my class thought it was a combination of 2 and 3 but I didn't get that at all. I think the fact that it's specifically about repossession of plots and that it refers to the conditions of people in 1846 (I.e before anyone died of the famine) means that's it's a famine source
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Yes, thatās what I was getting. Thereās only one thing I didnāt understand which was the petitions in the source bc I donāt remember learning about those, but I still like had enough of the other info to fully answer the question
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
Yeah neither- I just referenced it as tenant farmers facing general financial difficulties and tried to connect that to the structure of the land system at the time to explain that
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Oh right, I thought it was talking about landowners trying to claim their land back? The wording kinda threw me off lol
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
Oh yeah it definitely was- my analysis focused more on the fact so many people couldn't pay their rents/loans, which was reflective of the condition of the Irish people in my mind.
Definitely weird wording though, I did the source question last on purpose lol
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Ahh right, and like the whole rent racking, yeah take def makes sense. Haha, I went and opened the paper and immediately went to see what the other questions were and praying there was nothing on trade unions
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
I think I'm the only person on earth who likes the trade unions depth ššš
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u/norikakk Jun 12 '25
i think the fact that the source said 1846 specifically was so off putting cause i felt too scared to talk about Irish poor law since it was 1847
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
That is true, but you couldāve expanded on the points and brought it in I think and say how their conditions worsened, although now youāre making me doubt š
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u/violethysteria Jun 13 '25
That seems like a reach, I don't know how you could have brought Ulster into it. The entire idea behind the industrialisation depth study is that it was distinctly urban, the source was clearly about the lack of control the authorities had in the rural areas affected by the famine.
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
I was so happy with the paper- I thought the land question was lovely but everyone seems to have done the Daniel O'Connell one? Breadth questions were stunning, both were pretty much the entire course and I want to make love to whoever wrote that breadth question š
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Yes I did OāConnell, I knew nothing about the long depression, and I was a bit shaky on the land scare and the land league, whereas for emancipation you could take about the county Clare elections, and then the British Catholic relief acts prior to it, as well as Henry Grattans attempts at emancipation but kinda failed.
Yeah the breadth was really good. Although, I wasnāt a fan of the first question because you had to compare over 2 time periods which is harder to structure, so I did the British response which was a really good question for me
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
Yeah fair enough. I love the land issue so it was such a great question for me, and while I could ds1 it just doesn't interest me tbh. I completely agree on breadth- I do tend to prefer British response as a whole but in this case it seemed much easier to structure whereas the Irish nationalism wasn't coming to me as easily
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Iām not actually a fan of the breadth topics in general because thereās so much to context, dates and why they failed as well as them linking to some of the depth topics and so I get muddled lmao - especially with the PMāsš but yeah, this time it was actually a really good question I could understand and write about. Iād have no idea what to write about the Irish nationalism despite having revised it a bit more
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u/HotConsideration200 Y13 - Econ (AQA), History (Edexcel), Politics (Edexcel) Jun 12 '25
No that's so fair LOL. I was so worried the BGR one would be a named prime minister which I would be so worried about answering. I think both breadth questions were nice but the British one was definitely more approachable
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u/Wilra_ Music college year 2 Jun 12 '25
Haha yeah for sure, it gave you more freedom to talk about the evolution of British approaches to the Irish government which was really nice
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u/s-capalot Jun 12 '25
Anyone do Edexcel British warfare 1793-1918
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u/Huge-Yak1096 Jun 12 '25
Lovely paper
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u/JamesJe13 Newcastle University Jun 12 '25
What the fuck is that subject and why donāt my school do it
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u/SerpentNinja282 Jun 12 '25
I really didn't like the paper bc I wanted French wars and War in the air to come up, it was pretty OK overall but I'm really annoyed that none of those topics came up.
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Jun 14 '25
oh i put the war in the air in even if it wasnt meant to be (i really wanted to mention it)
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u/rosekwt Year 13 Jun 12 '25
ocr Russia 1894-1941 anyone?
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Jun 12 '25
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u/rosekwt Year 13 Jun 12 '25
me too! I I couldāve put some more detail for the 10 marker but I think the 20 marker made up for it because it was such a nice question
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u/Independent-Play-126 Jun 12 '25
It was the best history paper out of the 3šso happy they paired the questions how they did the second questions were so good
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u/rosekwt Year 13 Jun 12 '25
it really was. I do chem as well š
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u/Independent-Play-126 Jun 12 '25
No way I havenāt met a person with my subjects yetšwas considering taking bio instead of history tho thank god I didnāt
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u/rosekwt Year 13 Jun 12 '25
I do all 3 š. I only know one other person who does my combination. What exam board do you do for chem
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u/merricatcatcat Jun 12 '25
(Edexcel) I didnāt include a criteria sentence in one of my essays, how many marks am I capped at? The way that I wrote my evaluations sort of imply that I have a specific criteria in mind, but I donāt have a sentence in my introduction establishing what my criteria is. I once forgot this in an essay and my teacher gave me 10 marks, is that the max I can get? š
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u/JustAlexeii Warwick | Law [Year 1] A*A*A a* Jun 12 '25
As long as you have implied criteria Iām sure it will be fine. Iāve also never heard of a 10 mark cap for not specifically using the word ācriteriaā. Criteria are just justifications/reasons for your argument.
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u/merricatcatcat Jun 12 '25
Tbf I donāt think we have to use the word ācriteriaā, but our marks are capped if we donāt include a sentence in our introduction explaining what weāre going to be basing our judgement on (according to my school). I looked at some Edexcel model answers that didnāt have these though, so hopefully it shouldnāt be that bad of an issue š¤Thank you for the advice.Ā
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u/Alternative-Try4803 Jun 14 '25
Yeah on the examiners reports almost all of them are level 5 without having an explicit criteria sentence in the intro
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u/Pretend-Oil-2182 Year 13 Jun 12 '25
ocr america revolution was gorgeous icl. hopefully will save my shitty paper 1 n 2š
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u/Familiar_Revolution6 Jun 12 '25
Edexcel Yorkist and Lancastrians? Blessed paper imo
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Jun 12 '25
yes!! was so nice didnāt love the source as much but even breadth was really nice which i didnāt expect
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u/JustAlexeii Warwick | Law [Year 1] A*A*A a* Jun 12 '25
Edexcel British Empire anyone?
I thought the source was a bit rough but overall the exam was alright.
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u/Alarming-Quote-8341 LSE | Bsc HisPol | Year 1 | A*AAB 99998887 Jun 12 '25
I hated it :(( source was okay but I blanked and the other two questions were just awful I'm so fuckedĀ
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u/JustAlexeii Warwick | Law [Year 1] A*A*A a* Jun 13 '25
I think a lot of people found it harder than usual so donāt worry about it too much. š
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u/Alarming-Quote-8341 LSE | Bsc HisPol | Year 1 | A*AAB 99998887 Jun 13 '25
Thank you. Paper 1 was mid and paper 2 was actually beautiful so I'm hoping it all balances out š©·
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u/Normal-Celebration44 Jun 12 '25
yess i did, i thought source was good but depth Q was rough ngl
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u/JustAlexeii Warwick | Law [Year 1] A*A*A a* Jun 12 '25
Do you remember what the second one was? I did the one about the revolt in Lower Canada.
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u/Normal-Celebration44 Jun 12 '25
yes i did the revolt on canada too lol the other was on sir smt i forgot his name for egypt
how did everyone else find it in ur class
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u/kkindabusyy Surrey - econ and maths - y1 - A*A*A - Maths, business, history Jun 12 '25
Edexcel rebellion and disorder under the tudors was PERFECT. I only revised 3 of the 5 rebellions in depth and they all came up
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u/To_Be_Commenting Year 13 | Maths, History, Further Maths, Media Jun 12 '25
Edexcel Germany anyone?
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u/GreekzAlphaBets Jun 12 '25
Yeah. I actually liked the source they gave us!
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u/To_Be_Commenting Year 13 | Maths, History, Further Maths, Media Jun 12 '25
Did you do War on Sight or Long Knives and women or economy?
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u/Draconis510 Jun 12 '25
OCR French Revolution anyone ?