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Well we don’t have World History- for Leaving Cert history (solely looking at the Later Period 1815-1993), you answer either one or two questions (it changes every year) on Irish history so that could be relations with the British government pre- and post Famine (1815 to 1870), the planning of fighting for independence from Britain and the general bitter relationships that some of the Irish population had with Westminster (1870 to 1914), the initial fights for freedom, the eventual formation of the Republic and the baby country’s first steps (1912-1949), the Irish diaspora which is more social history but anti-Irish stigma in the US and the UK, the impact of Irish film and music blah blah (1840-1966), and finally everyone’s least favourite module…*drum roll*, Northern Ireland, how it developed pre-Troubles, the Troubles, and down with Thatcher (1949-1993, it doesn’t even do the Good Friday Agreement- shameful).

The other questions are European and US-based, shamefully there’s no South American, African, Asian or Australian history on it but our ties with them are relatively slim compared to the US and Europe so it’s probably not “worth it” from an Irish educator’s perspective.

Those questions deal with nationalism and state formation in Europe (1815 to 1871, a lot of Bismarck), Nation States and International Tensions (1871-1920, WW1, Imperalist Russia etc. etc.), Dictatorship and Democracy in Europe (1920-1945, DON’T MENTION ZE WAR!!!!!), Division and Realignment in Europe (1945-1992, Soviet Union, Hungarian uprising and the best bit of all John is a person you can write an essay about if he comes up, he normally isn’t on the more ‘advanced’ paper and is on the ordinary paper but a question like this has come up before ‘How did two of the following challenge widely?held views: Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Simone de Beauvoir; John Lennon ?’, guaranteed at least half marks for that question lads), the break-up of the British, French and Portugese empires (1945-1990), and finally as previously mentioned the US part. 

As you can see it’s A LOT to learn, each section has its own book and you study 4 books (each book is about 200 pages long). You also have to do a separate own research project which is worth 20% of your overall grade. 

Now whether you were actually asking for questions that affect you seeing as you’re not in the Irish educational system, a quick Google gives me some sample AP World History exam questions here (I love how ye have MCQs, that must be so nice, it’s all essays here, no guessing 🙁 )

Accidentally applied for a job where the salary is a whopping €21,000. I bet I’ll get a bloody interview for this one though- you can shove it if you think I’d work 40 hours a week in a busy office for €21,000 when I can loll around in a shop for the same hours for just under €20,000 or better yet go on unemployment and get a load of free benefits and almost €11,000 a year. I can stay at home, read books, watch telly, up-skill myself at home and go out and cycle on my bike. Top life.

The cheek of wanting to pay a PERSON WITH A DEGREE €21,000 and these jobs were in cities like Paris, London and Dublin. Enjoy being homeless or if you’re lucky, sleeping in your car although I don’t know if you’d be able to keep one running at €21,000.