Hello, #Vivers! The subject of History of Spain is one of the subjects that students in our selectivity preparation courses usually find most difficult to study. It is a mainly theoretical subject, in which there are a large number of dates and data to memorize. But to help you prepare for the exams, whether they are Selectivity EvAU/EBAU/PAU or PCE UNED, today we bring you a video in which our History of Spain teacher, Ángel, shows us the 7 keys to a correct learning of The subject.
The 7 keys to preparing the EvAU/EBAU/PAU or PCE UNED Selectivity exams in History of Spain
1. Reading comprehension
History of Spain is a fundamentally theoretical subject and therefore requires a lot of reading. When reading the topics, the most important thing is to understand the process and the events that occur. We have to think of the subject as a movie, in which we are going to see a series of characters that are intertwined with some events. This will make it easier for us to understand when we read it and thus we will avoid falling into memorizing the subject without understanding what he wanted to tell us.
2. Outlining
As the subject of History is very extensive, in order to be able to specify the concepts and clarify ourselves, it is very convenient to resort to outlining, that is, making outlines of each section to help us synthesize the content. We can have this scheme in our head even when we take the exam and thus maintain order in the development of the question.
3. Internal structure:
The themes of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries have an internal structure, that is, all these themes have an introduction or preamble that places us in the action, they are followed by the causes of the events, then the process itself (normally they are processes politicians who are going to change the course of events) and finally some consequences (these are linked to a political group opposed to the process that has occurred). If we take this into account we acquire a global vision of the events and these themes, since they are repeated in everyone.
4. Delete our opinion
It is inevitable in History to make political judgments about what happened in the past and even position ourselves on one side. This is something that always needs to be eliminated from our exams. There is no need to make value judgments or give our political impression, since History must be analyzed objectively. Furthermore, the person reading our test may not share our opinion and may not like what he reads. So, our opinion is our own and understand that an exam is not a time for debate or confrontation.
5. Basics
The contents to prepare for the EvAU History exam, like the others, have a series of basic concepts and technicalities that must be handled to develop an appropriate language for the subject. There are not too many of them and they are also repeated, but you have to be very clear about them so as not to confuse them, because in conversations outside the historical scope that they can hear, but they do not have the same meaning or they are not even being used appropriately, such as, for example: Liberalism or Old Regime.
6. Memorize
In the first key I commented that you should not memorize the subject and “let go” of what you have read like an automaton, that is a bad study habit. First it is always to understand/understand what we read, but next, we do not have to learn them and for that we have to “memorize” it and then translate it. But we must keep in mind that here the term memorize is not a purpose but a tool.
7. Use of chronological axes
In History there are many dates that place events. You do NOT have to learn all the dates, not all of them are necessary, but they are important to organize the concepts. For this, it is best to make some chronological axes at home with the basic ideas and thus we can see the succession of facts and ideas. They will help us a lot to situate ourselves and to be able to later develop our scheme.
We hope that you can get the most out of it when preparing your EvAU, EBAU or PCE UNEDasiss Selectivity exams in Spanish History. If you want to practice with real exams, visit our page exam models, and if you want to be aware of the latest news about our school and the activities we carry out, visit our profile of Insta.
