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Hardly anyone does convict women in NSW and it's not as dull as it sounds. Make sure you read 'Real Matilda' and 'Damned whores and gods police'

This is not entirely accurate. The marking criteria in the past have had references to "other evidence" and sources get 21/25 - may also evaluate source. (for historical periods). The same is said for the last section of the personalities. Look here for criteria from last years paper...

Re: Section IV - Historical Periods Tiberius wasn't asked last year. The question was on reforms and policies of one ruler and most students did Claudius.

According to the syllabus (p80) Question 3 will require students to refer to sources and apply their own knowledge to issues of investigating, reconstructing and preserving the past and related ethical issues. This is part 3 of the syllabus. Also, HSC trial Foreign Cults, public...

This is because the BOS has to write a paper that 11000+ students can access to varying degrees and so that the questions are of equal difficulty regardless of the section. So, a Amenhotep -Ramses question should be of equal difficulty to an Augustan question.

I find this difficult to believe as you don't ever find out your unadjusted mark. And, scaling is year group dependent. It depends on how the cohort does. Also, in theory and according to the criteria we are given, a band 6 is 21/25. Last year for instance, the Historical Period average was...

I mark the Historical period section, which is the last section of the exam. We find that students tend to not write a great deal for this section as they do it last and have either run out of steam, or run out of time. I would suggest that you don't answer the paper in the order that it is...

I agree. And, for goodness sake, don't make ridiculous comments like 'it's a primary source and is therefore reliable' - that's rubbish. Perspective is very important and making vague comments about usefulness/reliability will not help your response. The sources given to you will be...

You should quote too. It's always nice to read an essay at 8pm at night where the student a) knows what they're talking about b) answers the question and doesn't just tell us everything they know and c) has read widely on the topic - eg has comments from historians on the topic.

CNN has a cold war website which has some info, as well as a video series. There's also a cold war museum website which is good too.

This is a bit vague. What exactly are you after?

Yes, the quote should be a major theme in your essay. Although you won't be asked about FDR in the HSC (He isn't an HSC personality) there's a good chance you'll have to write about him in some context in the USA National Study. This section really isn't a biography, tell us everything you...

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We don't do Augustus, but he has been asked in the last few years' HSC papers. It's in the 2 Historical period sections. The period used to be called 'Augustus and the Julio -Claudians' although it won't cover 44BC-27BC. Have a look at the Board of Studies website.

There was a piece on 60 minutes in 2004 where Tara Brown interviewed Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and Robert Harris in Pompeii and Herculauneum. There was an interesting section on some skeletons in Herculaneum that haven't been treated properly. Ethical issues aren't just about whether it's ok to...

The text Egypt in the Ramesside Society by McCorquodale is pretty good. It's organised by bullet point. You need to make sure that you cover both 19th and 20th dynasty. Most students will do 19th well (Ramses II), but are a bit vague on 20th. Ramses III (20th) is pretty straightforward.

It was altered slightly when the new syllabus was done in 2004. That is the most up to date version.

The summary pages at the end of Antiquity are organised by theme and then princeps.

Are you doing a Julio - Claudian personality too? (Agrippina II?) There is a lot of cross over between the two and your could cut some notes/study that way. It's probably easiest to organise your notes by theme: Senate/Admin, Army/Foreign policy, significant individuals etc. That way, even if...

Opposition to Augustus comes under point 2 of the syllabus on the Augustan Age (The Augustan Principate). The opposition can take the form of family (Julia and the morality laws), Senate (opposition to decreasing numbers and opposition to 'first among equals'), the poetry of Ovid... hope...