Steady revision the week before does the night before a good meal and quality sleep works best though while at uni I sat one exam for a course I hadnt bothered to attend lectures for I got someones course notes 18 hours before the exam, studied all night and managed to get 60%.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.