No more history, ever. I had my Abitur/matriculation examination. Some nice questions and EDIT
Lordling Send a noteboard - 26/03/2010 02:40:49 PM
And since I have no intention of ever studying history at university, it means: no more history lessons, ever. Pretty damn great, IMO.
There were ten questions, 6 that needed to be answered and 6 hours to answer them. We had to attend the exam for three hours.
I have a glow around me. I feel it went pretty awesomely. Here are a few of the questions:
1. The Roman empire was at its largest in 117 after the death of the Emperor Trajanus (Trajan in English?). What factors enabled the size of the empire?
This was the easy first question.
4. There were two World Wars in Europe in the 20th century and nations underwent several internal conflicts. According to the interpretation of the British historian Paul Preston "the Spanish civil war was just one episode in the larger European civil war that ended in the 1945". How well can the events of the beginning of the 20th century be described as European civil war?
Not very well, I hope. Because that was my point. If you accept that a continent with nations that have made multiple alliances but are still all independent can undergo a civil war, then the First World War probably could be described as a civil war. The Second, however, was a lot more global. I'd hazard a guess that Americans wouldn't appreciate the opinion that the Second WW was a European civil war. Considering that Japan had a rather large part in it. A nice question.
OMG. This one sucked:
8. Conflicts that are claimed to be ethnic generally have political and economic reasons behind them and actually are not so much related to relationships between ethnic groups. Judge the accurateness of the claim on an area/country of your choosing that lies outside of Europe. From the 1950s to the present day.
Umm..What? *reads again* No, still don't get this. The war between some Nigerians and those who declared Biafra independent probably could qualify, but I could never write 2-3 pages of that.
10.
a) Read the following quotes by Eduard Sevardnadzen, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. Compare their opinions on the reunification of Germany.
b) What factors enabled the reunification of Germany, and what have been the effects of the reunification in Germany and Europe?
That was my favourite question. Thatcher was against, apparently partly because she was worried that German would become too powerful in the EEC. Kohl was for it, of course, provided that the DDR would be democratic. The Soviet guy was pessimistic.
No more history
And in case you wonder, I have no point in posting this. Just think it's interesting.
Keine Geschichte.
It's not certain yet, and won't be for a while, but my teacher was pretty certain that I would get an E from history. Now you're thinking, what an idiot... It's actually the second best grade, 15% get it every year. E stands for eximia (cum laude approbatur) meaning "he is accepted with excellent acknowledgements" or something like that. The matriculation examination grades are weird like that.
Apparently I got the best grade, Laudatur, from Health Education. Yay me! I'm awesome :
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Chemistry and German in October, I believe. And after a year, Finnish, Maths, English and Biology.
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Stupid Rand's heads. I'd write more but I'm not sure that I'm not slightly drunk atm. I've no tolerance at all.
There were ten questions, 6 that needed to be answered and 6 hours to answer them. We had to attend the exam for three hours.
I have a glow around me. I feel it went pretty awesomely. Here are a few of the questions:
1. The Roman empire was at its largest in 117 after the death of the Emperor Trajanus (Trajan in English?). What factors enabled the size of the empire?
This was the easy first question.
4. There were two World Wars in Europe in the 20th century and nations underwent several internal conflicts. According to the interpretation of the British historian Paul Preston "the Spanish civil war was just one episode in the larger European civil war that ended in the 1945". How well can the events of the beginning of the 20th century be described as European civil war?
Not very well, I hope. Because that was my point. If you accept that a continent with nations that have made multiple alliances but are still all independent can undergo a civil war, then the First World War probably could be described as a civil war. The Second, however, was a lot more global. I'd hazard a guess that Americans wouldn't appreciate the opinion that the Second WW was a European civil war. Considering that Japan had a rather large part in it. A nice question.
OMG. This one sucked:
8. Conflicts that are claimed to be ethnic generally have political and economic reasons behind them and actually are not so much related to relationships between ethnic groups. Judge the accurateness of the claim on an area/country of your choosing that lies outside of Europe. From the 1950s to the present day.
Umm..What? *reads again* No, still don't get this. The war between some Nigerians and those who declared Biafra independent probably could qualify, but I could never write 2-3 pages of that.
10.
a) Read the following quotes by Eduard Sevardnadzen, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl. Compare their opinions on the reunification of Germany.
b) What factors enabled the reunification of Germany, and what have been the effects of the reunification in Germany and Europe?
That was my favourite question. Thatcher was against, apparently partly because she was worried that German would become too powerful in the EEC. Kohl was for it, of course, provided that the DDR would be democratic. The Soviet guy was pessimistic.
No more history

Keine Geschichte.

It's not certain yet, and won't be for a while, but my teacher was pretty certain that I would get an E from history. Now you're thinking, what an idiot... It's actually the second best grade, 15% get it every year. E stands for eximia (cum laude approbatur) meaning "he is accepted with excellent acknowledgements" or something like that. The matriculation examination grades are weird like that.
Apparently I got the best grade, Laudatur, from Health Education. Yay me! I'm awesome :










Chemistry and German in October, I believe. And after a year, Finnish, Maths, English and Biology.
:










Stupid Rand's heads. I'd write more but I'm not sure that I'm not slightly drunk atm. I've no tolerance at all.
This message last edited by Lordling on 30/03/2010 at 06:16:14 PM
No more history, ever. I had my Abitur/matriculation examination. Some nice questions and EDIT
26/03/2010 02:40:49 PM
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Wow
26/03/2010 05:11:50 PM
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It's two/three years of school and six books/courses
26/03/2010 05:36:46 PM
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On a side note ... we have SAT's
26/03/2010 05:48:47 PM
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Showing your age; the SAT has an additional 800 point section now.
27/03/2010 07:31:59 AM
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Re: No more history, ever. I had my Abitur/matriculation examination. Some nice questions
26/03/2010 06:29:52 PM
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good, history sucks. now for some decent physics instead...
26/03/2010 08:36:15 PM
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Come on Jonte, I expected a much more difficult question from you
26/03/2010 09:31:27 PM
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Re: No more history, ever. I had my Abitur/matriculation examination. Some nice questions
27/03/2010 07:12:14 AM
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Congrats and well done; giving up on history is missing out though, IMHO.
27/03/2010 07:34:36 AM
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