by wrestler1ump on Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:19 pm
History is like Math, English and French- you either are good at it or you're not. I was always bad at remembering people and events. History is a lot about what happened, rather than the theory behind it. I have a few pieces of advice for the essay questions:
1) Learn as much as you can on the three possible topics. Wikipedia it. Even if some of wikipedia's facts might not always be correct, the majority of them are, so it's a quick way to get some info.
2) BS a lot of the essay. Connect the events that you write about to morals and trends of the time period. Even if you don't know what those morals and trends are, unless the place and time period are explicitely known for them, the teacher will just assume that you know what you are talking about.
3) Do not finish the essay. In fact do not even finish the conclusion. At the end of your essay, write TIME. This will make the teacher feel sorry for you that you didn't have enough time to write the test.
But more than anything, fill up the entire paper and don't be afraid to go off on a tangent if you don't know what you're doing. The teacher will appreciate your being overenthusiastic and not be so hard on you if you don't prove your thesis.
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