#history gcse

[habshihalwa]

Surviving GCSES: The Ultimate Guide

~ HOW TO REVISE ~

NB; some 'specific subjects' may not be included

WHEN:

- revision should be 'little and often' - meaning you should be revising a few hours every week, whether it's recapping the material, quizzing yourself, or doing homework. By doing little and often revision, it's more likely to become embedded in your long term memory

- if you cram the day before an exam, do effective cramming. Use this time to go over anything you don't know or understand. Blurting is a good method to use- try reading a page or a topic and writing down as much as you can remember from it. Fill in the gaps and identify your weak spots

REVISION METHODS

ACTIVE RECALL should be the main way you revise. It's forcing your brain to actively remember what it can about what you've learned, bringing it to the front of your memory

- blurting: blurting is a great way for you to find out what you know and what you don't. Write down as much as you can remember, and fill in the bits you can't with a different colour. You can repeat the process until it's embedded in your memory and until you're confident that you know everything you need to know

- flashcards: when writing flashcards, do NOT just copy notes onto there. Write questions on one side, and answers on the other then use it to quiz yourself. ALTERNATIVELY for memorising quotes, you could also write half of it on one side and half on the other. You could also write notes on one side and questions on the other, so you have to look in the text to find the answers

- past papers: I cannot stress this enough. Once you've revised and learned everything you think you've learned, test yourself by doing past papers. Research has shown that the top students do more past papers and questions than anyone else. Mark these yourself using the mark scheme so you can identify where you went wrong and how to improve it. Pay extra attention to the mark scheme so in an exam you can quit the waffle and identify where your marks are at

- pretend to 'teach' the content to someone younger or dumber than you. Try and explain it the best you can in simple words - this shows you understand it enough

- there are LOADS of videos out there about how to revise- watch them and use them!

- sleep: sleep is also a revision technique after you've learnt something, as sleeping gives your brain time to process the information and store it in your memory. but only sleep AFTER you've revised a bit

TEACHERS

- teachers are your best tool. Use them

- teachers know what they're doing, and are specialised in their subject for a REASON

- request revision materials,

- if you don't understand anything, simply ask. That's what they're there for. At the end of the day, your grades are gonna matter more than the time you bothered them

- listen in lessons!!! This is so important and many people don't realise. Pay attention in lessons like you're listening to the latest gossip or hot celeb talk or whatever you're into. Give it 110% and actively participate. It won't be embarrassing when you get those good grades.

WEBSITES

Here are some websites I like to use that are FREE and I use constantly to aid me with revision

• Quizlet

• anki

• StudySmarter

• seneca

• tassomai

• gcsepod

• hegarty maths

• Corbett maths

• maths genie

• YouTube and tiktok (they have some good shi on there ngl)

• Duolingo

SPECIFIC SUBJECT REVISION

MATHS

practice papers and questions. Memorise formulas and how to use them. Just keep doing practice questions. If you like puzzles and games, you like maths- think of it as another piece to solve, and like a game. At the end of the day, maths it's just problem solving. There's only one right answer.

ENGLISH LIT:

blurting, mind-maps, flashcards to learn quotes. Look at the AOs to figure out where your marks are, and try and do as much work as you can because at the end of the day, over the year or two years your classwork is gonna be what you've done the most. Plan essays and write them. Talk to your teachers about where to improve and where you've gone wrong. Read more to help with developing your language and writing style. Try writing something unrelated to school- maybe a story, a poem, a speech. Repeat it to help develop what you're doing. English lit is just memorising quotes and explains them- don't overthink it. Make sure you know your text back to front and know how to answer questions. Write practice essays and get your teachers to mark them, and later ask them to explain what you can do to get more marks. Especially in gcse, these examiners are marking abt 50-100 essays. What makes YOURS stand out. Why do YOU deserve that grade amongst everyone? YouTubers I like to use include Mr Bruff, Mr Salles, Mr Everything English

RS:

it depends on how you like revising. I like copying out my notes and making my mind-maps, and then using flashcards to help memorise quotes. Answer practice questions regularly and ask your teacher about the mark scheme and HOW to answer questions if you're struggling. Think of it as learning about yourself and your religion, and many others - help it bring you closer to God if you're religious

SCIENCE

science is mostly fact based and about how well you apply these facts to questions and practical examples. I very strongly recommend using flashcards and paying attention in lessons. Watch YouTube videos and actively and constantly recall your notes. Answer LOTS of past papers and practice questions - every year they use 3-4 of the exact same questions in the exam. There's only so many questions they can ask. Also, print off the specification (this can be found on the exam board's website) and use this to make sure you haven't missed any content out. Use this specification to make flashcards - also, use the questions at the end of each lesson in cgp textbooks as practice questions for flashcards!!! Science is quite flexible to revise from, you can watch videos and make notes, or make mind-maps, or do blurting. Just make sure it's active and that you're reviewing the content regularly!! I also recommend using Seneca to sort of make sure you know everything the day before an exam. Science is an explanation for everything, think of it as something interest as it can make quite a lot of interesting conversation topics.

LANGUAGES:

think of languages as something essential to your identity and helping you live in today's everchanging world. Language is a way to communicate with people - honestly just think about that for a sec. Use duolingo, Quizlet and other language apps!! Be consistent and the night before ur exam, do the biggest and fattest Quizlet you can revise. Test yourself on flashcards when memorising chunks for speaking exams. Also think of everything in ur designated language like when ur drinking water translate that. Or when ur speaking at home or to someone speak with what u know in that language.

HISTORY:

there's a lot of dates and factual knowledge in this, so your best option is to constantly review and actively recall everything. Try doing some practice questions and planning essays. Blurting is SUPER useful for this subject especially too!!! History is super interesting - we learn from the past to improve the future. History builds us and moulds us into where we are today!

HOW TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF

- find out what you want to do in life: medicine? law? art? finding a passion and knowing what you want to do after school can really help motivate you

- if you're unsure of you're career, start by listing what you like and what you're good at. Ask people what career they think you'd be suited to and why. Research these careers and about life beyond school

- a reminder that school is SO much more than just listening to teachers about useless stuff. When you think about, it's teaching you everything about the world you are living in RIGHT NOW

- knowledge is power

- make your parents and your family proud. If they can spend thousands of pounds on you and spend 15+ years raising you up, im pretty sure you can do this

- think about everyone who's ever told you you can't do it or thought you're useless. Imagine the look on their face when you make it. Prove them wrong.

- watch academia and studytok videos. As dumb as it sounds, they're quite motivating

- think of the consequences if you don't revise. while everyone will be smiling and happy with their results, you'll be sitting there knowing you could've done better if only you'd taken the opportunity. That opportunity is now

- a reminder that social media is always going to be there. There's always posts to like and videos to watch but the real world isn't here forever. Focus on your studies before your phone

- think about what you're ultimately working towards: WHY do you want these grades- money? A successful career? Revenge? Validation?

EXTRACURRICULAR BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

- don't make school your life- having a hobby or doing something you enjoy is SO important. It also makes you a more interesting person :)

- we all need downtime. find what that thing is for you

- you need to develop your brain outside of school too. Whether it's sport, music, art, writing- invest a little bit of time into that everyday

- READ. Reading is important and gives you more knowledge and develops your brain. JK Rowling once said if you hate reading, it's only because you haven't found the right book. FIND IT.

SELF CARE

- don't forget to take care of yourself. At the end of the day, a test is just a paper, a grade is just a number. As much as you want to get good grades, remember there's so much more to life

- remember this world is temporary - don't become so caught up in school you burn out. One day we're all going to die so it's important you stick to your religious faith/beliefs because everything is from god/happens for a reason. Ultimately, you may put so much effort into something but if God isn't pleased with you or decides not to make it happen, it isn't going to happen/if it's not meant to happen a certain way, it won't. Failure is inevitable and don't let it put you down. The afterlife/death is forever and when you're standing in front of God on judgement/ rotting in your grave this test is not going to matter. At all.

- hang out with friends often, and make sure they're not toxic and they're people who make you feel happy. Do things with them because you're only a teenager once so live your life and make memories with them. Just a reminder that there's a difference between fun, and stupidity+danger. Don't wreck up your future in the process

- take days off, and love yourself. Have a relaxing bath or a facial, or dress up for no reason. Remember that YOU are the most important person. Never hate yourself for putting you first

- don't overdo it so much that you burn out. Don't sit at your desk for ten hours straight trying to memorise something

- remember to get fresh air and go on regular walks and exercise. Exercise gets your blood flow pumping and can help clear your mind and help with exhaustion and mood.

I love you, and good luck to everyone doing their GCSEs :) you got this! ❤️

#gcses #studyblr #gcse studyblr #academia #motivation #how to revise #maths gcse #english lit gcse #history gcse #exams #exam season #have fun #blow this up and make me proud :') #revision #studyspo #how to study

[discoddity]

I GOT A 9 IN MY HISTORY MOCK???

#gcse #gcse mocks #gcse mock #mock #history #history gcse #gcse history #WHAT.

[a-good-defence]

I remember learning about Woodrow Wilson when I studied Weimar Germany in History GCSE and the only thing I thought was "Wow this fucker has the name of an evil animated rat"

#weimar germany #history #history gcse #woodrow wilson #usa history #american history #germany

[roxetteblack]

absolutely bodied my history exam, ask me anything and i’ll answer😫

#studying for exams #fuck exams #i hate exams #gcse exams #exams are killing me #examstress #final exams #competitive exams #exams #board exams #history gcse #history #i need followers #just felt like sharing #rox speaks

[thatlittleegyptologist]

I probably should explain that Asklepios/Asclepius was the Greek god of Medicine, and people would travel to places known as an Asklepion (or Asklepieia) where they could be treated for various ailments. People would travel there, undergo ritual purification, present a votive offering, and then spend the night within the temple walls. If they dreamed, then they'd report it to a priest and it would be interpreted and a cure for them determined based on that. So these votive objects would often take the form of whatever part of the person it was that wasn't working its best, and they'd either be given as the offering to be cured, or as an offering of thanks afterwards.

Asklepios still exists within medicine to this day, as his staff with a snake wound around it is a common medical symbol, as well as two of his daughters Hygieia and Panacea forming words we know in medicine today.

The dick votives are just a) funny and b) fascinating because they're all...sort of self portraits.

#I learnt a lot from a) my history GCSE module on medicine through time and b) a former housemates MA dissertation on this topic

[glitterslag]

Rust had popular girl handwriting

#peep the fancy little loops on 'symbology' :((( #born to be a gcse history flash card princess cursed to be a cop #letting him loose in a paperchase would cure his depression that's what i think #rust cohle

[sleeping-circle]

Women 👩🏼👩🏾‍🦰 - late 19th & early 20th century - History

In some the ways the status of women improved during the late 19th and early 20th century...

The custody of children improved after the Caroline Norton case

After Caroline (image of her🔽) separated (she wasn't allowed to divorce) from her violent husband, she was banned from seeing her children. She wrote pamphlets protesting against the unfair laws, which helped get the Marriage and Divorce Act of 1857 passed - giving women more rights when it came to children and marriage

There were more employment opportunities for women, such as nursing, clerical work, shop work, etc.

Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 & 1882 - improved married women's rights

Cooperative Women's Guild (1884) campaigned for women worker's rights, divorce reform and better schools and pensions

By 1901, some women were allowed to vote in local elections

But in some ways, the position of women in society at the time was still really bad...

Women's legal status was still limited, more so after marriage. The reforms helped, but didn't fully solve the problem

Working women were payed much less than men, conditions for factory work were awful, and women who didn't have a husband/family were exploited

Contraception (deliberate use of artificial methods/techniques to prevent pregnancy after sexual intercourse) was limited & primitive - many women spent much of their adult life pregnant

Giving birth was dangerous at the time - approximately 500 - 1000 women died per 100,000 births

Women's reform groups were seen as a threat - many articles were written against it, dubbing them as the 'New Women'

#reform #women's rights #history #study notes #1850s-1900s #gcse

[bison-appreciation-club]

i've been kinda down recently and all of a sudden this picture was the funniest shit i've ever seen

i laughed for five minutes straight at this

#gcse pod what are you talking abt #they didn't even provide a photograph for black kettle he was just a circle 😭😭 #dee rambles #dee's history stuff #i guess?

[czikpisia]

Lady Macbeth, circa 1830

I made this dress back in 2020 and day and night I weep when I remember it is no longer in my possession (must. remake.)

#my art #dress history #fashion history #vintage #1830s fashion #fashion #historical dress #historical fashion #history of fashion #history of dress #ballgown #evening gown #1830 #1830s #1830s dress #macbeth #shakespeare #william shakespeare #I guess I'm doing fanart of my GCSE exams #lady macbeth #women's wrongs #i support women's wrongs #watercolour #watercolour art #watercolor painting

[grace-the-ninth]

this time tomorrow i'll know what grades i got for my gcses i feel so ill

#gcses 2023 #gcse results #results day 2023 #edexcel if you give me an 8 or 9 in history i'll never say anything bad about you ever again

[joys-of-everyday]

So er... how does the cultivation work actually?

Firstly, a meta point on soft vs hard world building. MXTX’s novels lean more towards soft worldbuilding, building on existing tropes and leaving details to the imagination. I love soft worldbuilding. It’s fine if it doesn’t make sense! As long as its internally coherent, you can have wonderfully magical, realistic worlds that make absolutely no sense on inspection. As for SVSSS, the worldbuilding is meant to be shitty. That’s the joke.

Oh and something something, I’m not a history person, nor an economics person, no this is not thoroughly researched (this was an afternoon with too much time on my hands), take my words with a pinch of salt.

So phew, caveats aside, let me jot down some thoughts on how the cultivation world might work.

Two key questions:

Where does the food come from?

Who builds the roads?

1. Where does the food come from?

More generally, where do cultivators get goods from? Like clothes, paper, the rice LBH is making his congee with, the oil they are using for papapa, important things like this. Now either sects produce their own goods, or they procure it from outside.

In the first case, they own land. If they own lots of land, then they employ people to work this land. They have factories and manage communities and things like this. And before you say ‘sects don’t care about secular affairs!’, official sect business and getting revenue for the sect can be two different things. Look at any religious institution anywhere. As a good example, Buddhist monasteries (which is very loosely what cultivation sects are based on right???) have historically owned vast amounts of lands. They received a proportion of harvest in exchange for protection against external threats.

In the second case, there’s a cushion between the peasant and the sect – some power which organises all the goods that the peasants produce and hand them as a lump over to the sect. We have indication from this in text – i.e. the existence of prominent families.

So rich families exist. Why are families rich? Because they own resources. Usually, the form this resource takes is land. On the other hand, we don’t see those families becoming regional powers – local lords and things like this (unless you count Huan Hua Palace???), and in fact they seem to have almost no military power at all. Having resources isn’t all fun and games – this stuff needs protecting. So a reasonable system to have in place is that prominent families and sects have deals – protection in exchange for goods. (This is basically the same system as above, except with the prominent families as buffers so that sects have less boring legwork to do.) An alternative to all of this is some central power which collects taxes and redistributes goods appropriately, but we see no indication of one so lets leave that aside.

Overall, it’s probably a mix of the two and depends heavily on the sect.

Example: maybe Cang Qiong relies on a bunch of deals with local families (e.g. the Ming family and their tea fields), while Huan Hua is more heavily invested in managing their territory. A very small sect on the other hand might have its members working the land as part of sect duty.

2. Who builds the roads?

The whole point (arguably) of central power is its ability to do things on a scale that individuals cannot. This includes building works: roads, canals, flood controls, defensive walls etc. And also things like enforcing law, setting standards for trade, defend against external threats, etc. etc. all that fun jazz.

Now the world of SVSSS is fractured into regional powers, so that makes coordinating all of this quite hard.

For small things – patching up a bit of road or building a bridge or whatever – the people who own the land can probably do it themselves. Off the track sects and villages would struggle a little, but maybe they had the cultivation equivalent of GoFundMe or something. Cities seem to have their own governance (Jinlan had a city governor) so they can deal with day-to-day law. If this seems a bit laissez-faire, remember that governments being so involved in everyday life is a more modern thing.

For big things, that was probably what sect conferences were for. We see all the sects came together to defeat Tianlang-Jun, and probably for SQQ’s trial. These conferences were no doubt absolute chaos, but having four (4) major powers probably subdued it a little. So overall, all locally managed, until the issue is too big for local management, in which case it is thrown into an Endless Meeting (we’ve all been in one of those haha).

To wrap up, we have that the cultivation world is this blob of different regional powers interacting with each other, generally managing their own affairs and occasionally coming together to deal with the Big Problems.

This seems... horrendously unstable and likely to descend into a chaotic war within generations lol

Anyway, all just stray thoughts. If anyone else has other ideas, would be interested in hearing!

#svsss #svsss ideas #mxtx #worldbuilding #gcse history level economics lets go!!!!

[achromecoveredclone]

That moment when Israel got you school textbook banned for stating and educating British children on the war crimes they committed in a neutral tone (they will always look bad, no matter how much of the story you're given, so they simply took away the whole book)

[I'm doing GCSE History and this year one of our sections is the middle east and we learn about the colonisation of Palestine. It's good that we learn this stuff in depth. Israel has never once looked good. They got our textbook banned.]

#free Palestine #fuck Israel #anti israel #Palestine #israel #history #gcse #education #ukpol #uk

[duskmite]

so i had an in-class test today and i got a good score because i studied really hard and wrote over fifty pages of notes on the topics (my revision method) including copious additional personal research and i was feeling proud of myself. but then i thought wait, did i actually work hard? because i love compiling information and had an absolute blast with it so it didn't feel like work at all and if it didn't feel like work then do i have the right to pride? work is supposed to be difficult and painful or else it doesn't mean anything, right? and then it hit me how sad it is that we ascribe moral value to misery

#personal #anyway i am choosing to be proud of myself #it's big ol' fuck you to my gcse history teacher who put me down so much she almost destroyed my love of the subject #i'm getting firsts bitch how about that!!!!

[techiekittie]

English Literature speedrun notes

Tissue

“Tissue” - thin paper and human skin (fragility of humans)

“Paper that lets the light shine through, this is what could alter things” - reference to religious texts paper, light as Jesus and Allah (power of religion) - or coexistence with nature

Enjambment- freedom, lack of control of humans

Free verse- same thing

“Let the daylight break through capitals and monoliths” - power of nature, criticism of authority, weakness of humans (any idea what techniques are here??) (personification I guess)

“The sun shines through their borderlines” - nature overcomes human segregation (identity, criticism of war, power of nature) sibilance shows power

“fly our lives like paper kites” - childish metaphor, mocking control of money over life (criticism of authority)

“the back of the Koran” - non English spelling shows her holding onto her own identity,

“Transparent” - repetition, criticism of dishonesty of authority

Exposure

“Merciless iced east winds that knive us” - personification of wind shanking people (first line not about war but nature- more significant) (power of nature)

ABBAC rhyme, structure is built only to be taken down (tension of soldiers expecting fight but let down)

Pararhyme- unsatisfying for reader, reflects how the soldiers are always nervous but never get to chill

“For love of God seems dying” fukcking Lord ok

The soldier’s love of God is dying

God’s love for the soldiers is dying

To show love of God, you should die

Epistrophe “but nothing happens” cyclical structure, stuck in suffering

“a dull rumour of some other war” reference to the Bible and Armageddon, metaphorical end of the world for the soldiers bc suffering

“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence” - sibilance represents sound of bullets, jolting reader out of relative lack of noises, feel like soldiers

“forgotten dreams” - juxtaposition, loss of hope, forgotten dreams on purpose to be less sad? war made them forget?

History Boysssss (homosexuals)

“Enemy of education” war metaphor and alliteration, opposition between true understanding of literature and grades only used shallowly

“a fact of life” indisputable and unchangable, in opposition with Irwin’s views on history (truth does not matter to him until now?)

Drummer Hodge: Intertextuality, Tom Hardy (the poet) represents Hector, sympathising with the ordeal of the youth, Drummer Hodge represents the Boys, thrown into the chaos of life

“She’s my western front” war metaphor objectifies Fiona, [my] personal pronoun further expresses how women were seen as objects to be owned

“… all the other shrunken violets you people line up” [you people] segregates gay people, [shrunken violets] derogatory language

“Some of the literature says it will pass” looking to literature for solace and comfort during a sexuality crisis, sad gay energy

“All literature is consolation” Dakin changes his mind on literature symbolising him changing to Irwin’s side. No need to look for solace in literature when he is a successful bisexual

Parallels with “all knowledge is precious” from Hector

#the history boys #history boys #gcse #gcse english #eng lit

[petalsandpurity]

Good luck to anyone who’s GCSE’s started today (or start tomorrow!!). Take a deep breath - you’ll smash it!! :D

#it goes so quick before you know it you’ll be hearing the invigilator #saying your final exam is finished!! #I remember my final exam - it was history and the relief I felt when the lady said to put our pens down - knowing it was all over #was unmatched lmao #(also the summer after ur GCSE’s is the best summer!!)

[studyuwus]

exam prep!! :)

#studyblr #aesthetic #studying #studyspo #notes #study notes #studygram #bujo #bullet journal #gcses #study #study inspiration #history #exams #dark academia #english #gcse #studyinspo #ib2022 #international baccalaureate #kms