Stacy Stout

Or again, you could do one dictatorship, one United States, one pursuit of sovereignty.

So the Leaving Cert History course can be overwhelming for a lot of students.

It's huge.

Each of your essay topics has three case studies, right?

So if you are doing two essay topics, that means you have six case studies.

If you're doing the three essay topics, you have nine case studies.

I would always, always, always encourage students to start off by learning those case studies, because when you go back over past exam papers, you will struggle to find a year that doesn't have an essay on at least one of those case studies.

Now, doing the case studies alone is probably not going to be enough to get you a H1, a H2, a H3.

But it is a nice kind of manageable place to start because each of those case studies is probably about two pages each.

And then you can broaden out from there.

So, for example, if your case study is the Nuremberg rallies, then you could broaden out and look at, you know, other forms of propaganda.

If your case study is Johnson and the Vietnam War, then you could broaden out and have a little look at, you know, the rest of US foreign policy.

So I would say start with the case studies, go from there and go back over all the past exam papers and make sure you can spot the case studies.

Because sometimes they're there by name, which is great, but sometimes like...

They might talk about, say, I don't know, the civil rights movement as opposed to the Montgomery bus boycott, which would be the case study.

So just make sure you can spot where the case studies would fit in and belong.

So you are only required to do either two or three of those topics.

And that's what like the teacher will have been doing with you for, they probably spend about four or five months on each of those.

And then with the four essays that come up, usually there's one that's just hideous.

So no one will want to do it.