What can VCAA ask on the exam

[Ninjamagics]

So I've checked out the study design and it mentions some very key events however my no means represents all the events I've studied, so the question I pose is this, will VCAA only ask about ideas/topics  physically listed on the study design, I wanna make sure I will know whatever event is on the exam in detail so if not, what should I do to ensure Ill know everything or at least go over it in my exam revision

[Hala119]

Hi,

So, I based all of my notes around the study design, and got an A+ in the exam. They will only ever ask you what they put in the study design. I spent about two weeks writing notes and memorising the information, then I spent most of my time in the weeks coming to the exam doing practise exams, first open book, then gradually closed book, to affirm what knowledge I do not have and improve my writing skills (getting it marked by the teacher).

If you know what's on the study design, you'll be fine. Any other knowledge is just extra -- but they don't expect you to know EVERYTHING in as much detail as you did for the SACs (except you need to know more detail for the extended response questions, but if you do past extended response practises you'll find that they ask similar questions).

This is an example of my study notes for History:

New Regime Challenges (in consolidating power)
•   The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly
•   Political opposition
•   The creation of the Sovnarkom
•   Land redistribution
•   The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
•   State Capitalism
•   The Civil War
•   War Communism
•   The Red Terror
•   The Polish Soviet War
•   The 1921 Famine
•   The Kronstadt Revolt
•   New Economic Policy

And this is how detailed my notes were:

The Kronstadt Revolt
Cause
(Late Feb 1921) workers strikes
   Martial law
   War communism
   Guirella fighters (Winter 1921) like Makhno & Antonov
Sent delegation Petro: “…were not factories but the forced labour camps of tsarist times.”
Effect
Revolt: (1 March 1921)
   Thousands
   Kronstadt Anchoirs Square
   Kalinin failed speech
      Endorsed demands – Stepan Petrichenko – only peasants, workers, socialists
Battle: (7 March 1921)
   50,000 RA Soldiers
   General Tuckachovsky
300 Delegates congress vs 16,000 sailors = “the bloody field marshal Trotsky opened fire on revolutionary Kronstadt.” ~ Stepan Petrichenko
End: (18 Dec 1921)
   Retake naval base
      2300 dead; thousands evaded to finland
   Casualites
      10,000 RA & 5,000 sailors
         “the beginning of a ghastly fratricide.” ~ Victor Sergei
Significance
~ Lenin show respond to challenge w/ brutality
~ Accept current eco system needed to be replaced - NEP

As you can see, I did 'cause, effect, significance' for all key events -- it prepared me well.