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Jun. 10th, 2004 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolWell, history went rather well, actually.
No, really.
Paper One, bless its little cotton socks, had the 'own knowledge' questions about the Putney Debates (I've done more past papers on them than I have anything else) and the loooong one was a weird one, but I was calm and collected. I actually managed to stop and think "Right. This question wants to know what happened between 1649-53. You know that. You learnt this." So I wrote it! Initial simultaneous panic of the entire class was a bit nasty though - two of the sources were on the Barebones Parliament. I had the advantage here - I knew it existed. About two other people knew that. No one knows anything about it, and we've certainly never done it. But it was a source question, and it was blaggable - those questions don't care what you know.
Paper Two provided a nasty shock - "What do you mean, it's only an hour? I thought I had longer!" Luckily, I worked that out a bit before the exam, so I timed it all correctly. Brilliant - two hugeass questions on finance (yes! yes! yes! History orgasms are real!) and then the splitting of unity within the Commons from 1640-41. That's so easy!
So I'm in a remarkably good mood, because I like it when an exam is doable. It's reminded me why I love history - I genuinely rather enjoyed doing this paper and writing down all the reasons and getting poetic. "On a cold January morning, Charles I died magnificently as he lived miserably..."
So, yes. Tomorrow I have media, which will be... odd. Money is on LOTR or POTC being on the exam. That should be a laugh.
I have lots of intelligent things to say about Ronald Reagen, the rises in interest rates and the G8 summit, but I don't think I can make my brain work politically.
However, we are on election day so I will talk about that. I really rather hope that turnout does improve - I think that postal voting is a Good Thing but mandatory postal voting is a Bad Thing. With all the extra publicity, I hope that we'll improve on the last turnout for Europe if not the councils. Frankly enough, 25% is embarassing.
I won't predict who'll win; I don't think anyone will win, overall. I think the minor parties will do well, and I think UKIP will do well but not as well as everyone is panicking about (silly Daily Mail readers have been indocrinated to think they're a bad thing; people seem to listen to the Daily Mail). I really, really hope that the Green Party do well. Environmentalism seems to come across in the EU Parliament, and that's a Good Thing. The BNP might just get some seats - ugh. As for RESPECT? I sincerely hope not.
The three main parties... ah, that's a mystery. Lib Dems will go up, Tories will slightly (they do very well in Europe) and Labour will go quite far down. They'll be equal. I think. Maybe I'll be wrong; we'll find out tomorrow.
Oh, and the Tories will sweep the board in our council. That is nothing new.
That really is all. Off to get food and tape Evo. Missed X23 the other night (damn!) and I have last nights episode to watch as well. It's just dawned on me that I've probably just cut off the rest of the episode because my video player is odd.
Damn, I'm not very good at this.
Yes. Leaving now.
~Hathy_Col~
No, really.
Paper One, bless its little cotton socks, had the 'own knowledge' questions about the Putney Debates (I've done more past papers on them than I have anything else) and the loooong one was a weird one, but I was calm and collected. I actually managed to stop and think "Right. This question wants to know what happened between 1649-53. You know that. You learnt this." So I wrote it! Initial simultaneous panic of the entire class was a bit nasty though - two of the sources were on the Barebones Parliament. I had the advantage here - I knew it existed. About two other people knew that. No one knows anything about it, and we've certainly never done it. But it was a source question, and it was blaggable - those questions don't care what you know.
Paper Two provided a nasty shock - "What do you mean, it's only an hour? I thought I had longer!" Luckily, I worked that out a bit before the exam, so I timed it all correctly. Brilliant - two hugeass questions on finance (yes! yes! yes! History orgasms are real!) and then the splitting of unity within the Commons from 1640-41. That's so easy!
So I'm in a remarkably good mood, because I like it when an exam is doable. It's reminded me why I love history - I genuinely rather enjoyed doing this paper and writing down all the reasons and getting poetic. "On a cold January morning, Charles I died magnificently as he lived miserably..."
So, yes. Tomorrow I have media, which will be... odd. Money is on LOTR or POTC being on the exam. That should be a laugh.
I have lots of intelligent things to say about Ronald Reagen, the rises in interest rates and the G8 summit, but I don't think I can make my brain work politically.
However, we are on election day so I will talk about that. I really rather hope that turnout does improve - I think that postal voting is a Good Thing but mandatory postal voting is a Bad Thing. With all the extra publicity, I hope that we'll improve on the last turnout for Europe if not the councils. Frankly enough, 25% is embarassing.
I won't predict who'll win; I don't think anyone will win, overall. I think the minor parties will do well, and I think UKIP will do well but not as well as everyone is panicking about (silly Daily Mail readers have been indocrinated to think they're a bad thing; people seem to listen to the Daily Mail). I really, really hope that the Green Party do well. Environmentalism seems to come across in the EU Parliament, and that's a Good Thing. The BNP might just get some seats - ugh. As for RESPECT? I sincerely hope not.
The three main parties... ah, that's a mystery. Lib Dems will go up, Tories will slightly (they do very well in Europe) and Labour will go quite far down. They'll be equal. I think. Maybe I'll be wrong; we'll find out tomorrow.
Oh, and the Tories will sweep the board in our council. That is nothing new.
That really is all. Off to get food and tape Evo. Missed X23 the other night (damn!) and I have last nights episode to watch as well. It's just dawned on me that I've probably just cut off the rest of the episode because my video player is odd.
Damn, I'm not very good at this.
Yes. Leaving now.
~Hathy_Col~
