Find your future in your roots (History)

Name: Vemsy

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Product:	History
Date:	15/05/01 (16 review reads)
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Advantages: Very good to study, An Insight to the past helps us with the future

Disadvantages: Heavy workload, Hard to get a decent grade

I'm just about to complete my 2 year A-level course in History and it has definitely been my favourite subject, even if it has been a heavy workload.

I've studied the period 1815-70 in both Britian and Europe (although the British part of the course focused mainly on 1820 - 1850) and I have to say I feel that studying this period has definitely made me understand the events of the 20th Century and today much better.

History always manages to carry with it a stigma of being boring, and occasionally it is, but isn't every subject? I have found it to be both interesting and fulfilling, giving me the ability to grasp modern day situations and events using information from the past.
I do believe that it does all depend on who is teaching the course, without the right teaching or enthusiaism, it could quickly become a vey dull experience, but
thankfully it didn't.

The course itself focusses more on the political aspects of the period studied (for there are many different periods on the history syllabus) and there is great emphasises on anaylsis on the historical period covered rather than just narrative. A big feature of the course is being able to take other historarian's opinions and use them in the context of the essay you are writing. This skill is essential to get the top grade.

I feel History has given me much more than any other subject, I enjoy it, I like to study it and hopefully I will do well in the exam, but it certainly is a heavy subject full of dates and quotes, not for people who feel they have a poor memory :-)

If you enjoyed History at GCSE then definitely consider History at A-level.

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