You will find below your marks for the module "rappel des fondamentaux". They are made up, half and half, of the two marks from the two classroom tests.
The main weakness in the essay part is that many students did not distinguish between 1) British public opinion 2) the British government and 3) different organized minorities.
Remember the basic fact of studying British civilization: almost all sentences beginning "British people thought" are not useful, because you need to say which British people. This is particularly true of controversial questions. When Enoch Powell made his speech in 1968, *some* British people supported him - some dockers and civil servants even went on strike to support him, which is extremely rare on this kind of question. Other British people thought he was quite wrong. We don't have precise measures, but if the Prime Minister felt it necessary to sack him, it is a fairly good sign that the Prime minister thought a *lot* of votes could be lost by not sacking him.
Concerning the scripts for this exam, I will keep them in my office and you can have them back. Having said that, the scripts for the commentaire are much more important. My comments on the rappel des fondamentaux exam are along the lines of "No, it was a century before" and so on, which are not very enlightening. But on the Commentaire scripts there are many annotations which you need to spend hours studying.
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