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How much do you study?

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    #32
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    surely you can forgive that mistake. Thats like my user name being "086 girl".
    Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.


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    #33
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.

    Ah yeah you give advice and you mock:pac: Tank god there are people like you on forums like this:rolleyes: I suggest that you stop the childish digs and help other posters or else stay very quiet.


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    #34
    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    It's ok, I'm on my laptop, so the keys don't make very much noise.


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    #35
    Cost Boy!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭Cost Boy!!


    xxGalwayGirlxx wrote: »
    I'm not going to go to school anymore either so I can spend that time studying.
    I think its a good idea only if you have all your courses finished, I'd like to stay at home from now on to study but I dont want to miss maths so I have to go in but at least we're finished in 2 weeks.


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    #36
    Peleus
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Peleus


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.

    lol


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    #37
    bazaamo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭bazaamo


    We have nothing to lose and absolutely everything to gain!!!!!!:)


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    #38
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
    I don't see the point in staying home from school. You might be missing out on something useful, and it's not like if you stay home from school you're going to be studying for 9 hours a day or anything. I mean, if you finish school at 4, you still have a lot of time left in the day to study.

    In my experience, no one I know who stayed home for the last few weeks of school did any better than I expected them to, and no one who got high points stayed home from school during this period.

    Im staying at home but im doing 10 hours a day.I was doing 8 hours after school but it was leaving me wrecked and because the courses are finished my way of studying is suited to 3 hour block periods were i can do a past paper in each subject.If you are motivated you will do the work,if you are staying home because everybody else is you wont get ANY work done.Also,anyone i know who has done this and had this attidude got very high points.Luckily,im just looking for 400 points and with the studying im putting in i hope ill get a little more.


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    #39
    Noodleworm
    Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Noodleworm


    I absolutely detest study but that's probably a combination of my total lack of motivation and ADD.
    I think I know now that I'm not going to get those 410 points I wanted...
    It wouldn't be so bad if I was off socialising, but I spend most my time in my house trying to study! I have a brain like a sieve...


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    #40
    titan18
    Registered Users Posts: 12,005 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    I do my homework and do about an hour extra study at the most.Usually get fed up.I only need 400 points,providing it doesnt go up,and I got 430 in the pre with only the night before spent studying


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    #41
    bazaamo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭bazaamo


    Try doing 15hr days of study for 600pts!Than you'll know how brutal study can be!


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    #42
    mattfender
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mattfender


    Most of my study time is spent looking out the window ranting at boy racers..
    or playing guitar, or typing this right now..
    Only need two honours for my course so its making me kinda lazy when I know I should be studying hard!! ARGGHH! :pac: Only got 225 or something in mocks so I hope for somewhere mid 300's for the real thing!!


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    #43
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    mattfender wrote: »
    Most of my study time is spent looking out the window ranting at boy racers..
    or playing guitar, or typing this right now..
    Only need two honours for my course so its making me kinda lazy when I know I should be studying hard!! ARGGHH! :pac: Only got 225 or something in mocks so I hope for somewhere mid 300's for the real thing!!

    Yeah i was along your train of thought, I only need mid-300s with two honours(doing 6 higher) but about a month ago it hit me that i dont want to do this again next year and will i ever look back and think i could have done better.At the moment i think of it like this, you have a month and a half to do your best and hopefully it's good enough.

    The amount of study you put in all depends on what you want to get and what you think you will get.If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.Basically you get what you put in.


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    #44
    Cokehead Mother
    Closed Accounts Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Cokehead Mother


    random chatbox wrote: »
    If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.

    wtf?


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    #45
    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    Cokehead Mother wrote: »
    wtf?
    look up to bazzamo


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    #46
    orangetictac
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭orangetictac


    bazzamo???? Thats not healthy, or is it? i dunno, if you can do it fair play
    Have you been doing that much all year?
    I was thinking about 600 pts but i only need 465, but still think i ave a chance if i do 5 or so hrs on days off(soon everday) and a bit more startin next wednesday.


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    #47
    mattfender
    Closed Accounts Posts: 602 ✭✭✭mattfender


    random chatbox wrote: »
    Yeah i was along your train of thought, I only need mid-300s with two honours(doing 6 higher) but about a month ago it hit me that i dont want to do this again next year and will i ever look back and think i could have done better.At the moment i think of it like this, you have a month and a half to do your best and hopefully it's good enough.

    The amount of study you put in all depends on what you want to get and what you think you will get.If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.Basically you get what you put in.

    I'm only doing 3 higher now so basically honours should be in music and geog.
    Thank god I dont need points or i'd be screwed then!!! Yeah the whole idea of repeating doesnt sound nice..especially after getting an stomach ulcer i dont wanna get another next year!!
    I'n being really lazy these days but its not until closer to exams I really start getting into it, thats what happened for mocks...time to wake up matt:eek: hehe!!


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    #48
    boobookitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭boobookitty


    bazaamo wrote: »
    Try doing 15hr days of study for 600pts!Than you'll know how brutal study can be!

    Good luck in your study. I hope the work pays off.

    May I ask how you study subjects like say English & Irish? Apart from the obvious "do the exam papers".

    Do you write everything out or are you able to read and retain? :P


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    #49
    Casserine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 59 ✭✭Casserine


    I'd say the best piece of advice to give anyone is not to freak out and tailor their own study routine in response to this thread. If you're totally slacking off and haven't done a pip, well then that's a different story, but if you feel you're doing what works for you, then just keep it up.

    For some people, studying 6 hours a day is necessary, for others it isn't. I usually do 4 hours Monday-Thursday, Irsh grinds on Friday and a few hours at the weekend. I should do more at weekends, I know, but I'm always exhausted after the school week! I'll up that from now on, though. With this amount, I got 520 in the Mocks, and I'll probably only need mid 400s. Different strokes for different folks.

    Random question: I always read about people lamenting the fact they had to give up hobbies during the LC. Not necessarily sport, which everyone encourages anyway, but stuff like watching films, reading etc. I get through about 2 or 3 non-school books a week and watch films regularly. I didn't find it necessary to give up these - should I have?


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    #50
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Hobbies are necessary to stop going insane, I think. If you do nothing but schoolwork, the LC consumes your life and turns into a lumbering, terrifying monster. Doing other things is an enjoyable distraction which allows you to realise that the LC isn't the be all and end all of the world.
    Of course, being in sixth year has meant I can't stay up until the middle of the night every night playing computer games, because I would die of the exhaustion.


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    #51
    Jayeire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Jayeire


    Totally agree with the mod above ^ :D
    Never forget that there is indeed life after the leaving.. A whole summer of relaxation
    Nothing beats the feeling of sealing up the answer booklet of your last LC exam and handing it to the supervisor
    Roll on Summer
    Put in the effort now , its never too late!!


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