wen looking at the low scores in us history plz consider that this years paper was very diferent from the trend in the subject that mcqs are repeated and long questions cvome from some 15 odd topics. many students prepare keeping in mind the past trend. most who went to academies wud have stuck to those few topics and therefore they suffered this time around as few mcqs from past papers were repeated and there were barely 3 questions that are part of the trend in the past.

that does not mean that marking is strict.