xsweet16x ([info]xsweet16x) wrote in [info]ibscrewed,
@ 2008-05-01 15:54:00
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History Paper 3

Hi, I'm really confused about paper 3 of the exam...My teacher told me that we'll only get our regional option, but I heard from an 2006 grad that they give you all five regions and while you're only taught one, you're allowed to write on any of them. Which one is true? Could it vary by school?

Thanks so much. Good luck everyone!


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[info]akindofpastry
2008-05-01 11:59 pm UTC (link)
I don't take History, but I assume Paper 3 isn't that different in the other subjects. Paper 3 is usually the different options offered to each school, so there are a lot of different questions depending on your option. My teacher told me that, yes, you are allowed to write for any one of them if you feel up to it, ut she strongly encouraged us not to answer anything we hadn't been through. The people who correct your paper won't know which option you were taught, so it's all the same to them.

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[info]apothegma
2008-05-02 01:26 am UTC (link)
Paper 3 isn't reall OPTIONS because history doesn't have options. However, because there an abundance of topics and you are supposed to answer only 3 of i think 40 potential questions you have the OPTION to choose which questions you answer. There are 7 or so topics on paper 3, they are the same every year. Cold War is a big one btw, it's on all three papers. Typically you're teacher's covered a few topics really well and you wanna try to choose your questions from those topics for obvious reasons. But any questions you feel qualified to answer you can answer. You won't be penalized just for choosing one outside of the topics your school chose to cover. The three questions you choose have to each be from different topics.

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[info]xsweet16x
2008-05-02 04:50 am UTC (link)
Wait, whattt? From the practice papers we got, I thought we had to choose 2 topics out of 6 for paper 2, while paper 3 had 25 questions per region that weren't separated by topic.

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[info]apothegma
2008-05-02 04:55 am UTC (link)
ah you're right, my mistake. It's 25 Qs and they're not divided by topic. I mixed paper 2 with 3

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[info]xsweet16x
2008-05-02 05:02 am UTC (link)
Whew, you had me panicking for a moment, hahah

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[info]photopsia
2008-05-02 04:27 am UTC (link)
the exam is the same at every school. after all, it's the international baccalaureate. the person above me did a good job on answering your question. good luck next week! i'm so nervous!

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[info]yh_tac
2008-05-02 09:36 am UTC (link)
I'm pretty sure it's 25 questions from your region. For example, we're doing the Asia-Pacific, studying Tokugawa and Meiji Japan and China from the Opium Wars till 1911. On our papers are questions relating to those topics and also stuff about Australian and New Zealand history and other Asia-Pacific questions. So we won't be getting any questions about Europe, but I'm almost certain we can answer whichever questions we want. So there are options, in a way, but they're all regional. I hope that made some sense.

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[info]longmonologue
2008-05-13 04:35 am UTC (link)
However that exam was set up - History Paper 3 Asia was a piece of... (fill in blanks ^_^)

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