How much midterm study are you going to do?

ironclaw

I'm just relaxing. Like its still 8 months away. If you've been studying 4 -6 hours at this stage you are not going to be able to sustain that. You just can't and thats fact. (The rents Psychology book beside my study desk told me... )

LivingDeadGirl

Okay I've made a plan for the rest of the holidays!


English(H) - Revise Macbeth, write out a personal response to Montague

Irish(H) - Revise Pass Poetry Course, learn SOME sort of grammar rules(my main fault)

Maths(H) - Integration (c) parts to do, Differentiation revision(only thing I've started)

French(H) - Learn at least 6 basic verbs in every tense PERFECTLY, possibly a comprehension from papers, I had a 'french day' with my friends where we did oral questions and the 2003 listening paper, with lots of french food!

Geography(H) - Revise Sub-Continental Region(Brazil) + first 3 chapters of physical

Art(H) - Revise Bronze Age

Music(H) - Revise Berlioz, do a melody and rewrite 2 essays to get them up to A1 level





Sound achievable in 4 days? :(

K4t

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

I had a 'french day' with my friends where we did oral questions and the 2003 listening paper, with lots of french food!

You are cool. Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise.

LivingDeadGirl

Or maybe I just have my head screwed on and give a shit about my education?

bythewoods

ironclaw wrote: »

I'm just relaxing. Like its still 8 months away. If you've been studying 4 -6 hours at this stage you are not going to be able to sustain that. You just can't and thats fact. (The rents Psychology book beside my study desk told me... )

I'm warning you from experience that that's not the right kind of mentality. Seriously.
I was exactly the same last year, putting the study off, making myself believe it was ages away. And then June came like a big slap across the face. Then there was August- you don't want to open your results and see grades below what you need/ could have gotten.

Even if you don't want to sit down and study properly, writing out essays/ notes/ oral exam answers etc should be done now! That way, you can revise them closer to the time and won't have to start from scratch.

bythewoods

bythewoods wrote: »

I'm warning you from experience that that's not the right kind of mentality. Seriously.
I was exactly the same last year, putting the study off, making myself believe it was ages away. And then June came like a big slap across the face. Then there was August- you don't want to open your results and see grades below what you need/ could have gotten.

Even if you don't want to sit down and study properly, writing out essays/ notes/ oral exam answers etc should be done now! That way, you can revise them closer to the time and won't have to start from scratch.

Yah you're exactly right. I'm repeating this year, and it really really isn't too early to start. It's scary how fast June will come, now's the time to do it.

ironclaw

Oh, believe me I amn't doing nothing! I am studying, I just don't agree with 4 -6 hours. You do need a break. I average 4 hours on a weeknight during the term. Relax! Slowly build, unless you've been doing 4 - 6 hours regularly.

You can't run a marathon without training

I did the same at JC, slowly built up and I did fine. 7 A's, 2 B's and 2 C's.

xOxSinéadxOx

I brought home a few books but now I've realised I'm going to do absolutely nothing

macroman

I was shocked when none of the teachers (bar Accounting, History & English) set out homework for the mid-term, I've done very little study TBH (been busy doing driving lessons), will get stuck into Accounting and History today, will leave English Essay and Mahon revision till tomorrow

Gavin "shels"

I got the courage to do 3 Maths paper questions, in the middle of doing another now. Then doing an English essay in a bit, the short questions on 2008 Paper in Business and aload of French and Irish oral work tomorrow. If I get all this done I'll be happy.

Piste

Ok now, fess up everybody, how much study did you ACTUALLY do?


I studied:
2 Irish Poems
3 Chapters of Biology
Seachanges
The HPAT (totally counts as study >_>)


The rest of the time I slept, ate, was online, or watched House. Fail.

Davidius

I've done some of the maths homework we were given. 5 out of 8 exam questions.

Now for the weekend I have work in every other subject.

At least I tried. :pac:

EDIT: Hey, 1000 posts.

...

That was disappointing.

Pigwidgeon

i did 15 pages of biology exam questions that we were given..
haven't quite got around to doing much else.
going to study economics bio and irish tomorrow.. .tests on monday eep.

LivingDeadGirl

Is it too late to start now?

Niamh-17

My study mojo has dissappeared! Did a good bit Sat, sun and monday. A little on tue and nothing since.....well there is only this evening and tomorrow left so i might so just finish up homework and then wait for Monday to get going again!

Cokehead Mother

LivingDeadGirl wrote: »

Is it too late to start now?

No!

bythewoods

Did way less than I'd hoped!

I did:
4 questions for an Triail (Quite proud of them actually, those 3 page each masterpieces..)
Revision and 2 questions each for "Dá m'bhéidir arís dár gcumann" & "an chéad dráma"
2 maths paper 1s (Old mock papers as I did all the actual ones last year)
Revision for Regional Geography and a few sample questions
Revised Mahon & Montague and did an essay on the latter.

No Chemistry. No Biology. No French.
Sigh.

-ME-

Well so much for my good intentions.. My study schedule didn't really go to plan What a waste of a week.. the hang overs didn't help either! Some severe cramming is in order tomorrow i think.

wexhurdler

some say they study for x amount of hours but how much do you get done in this time? i could spend hours and not get anywhere at all any ideas for getting most from your time??

Piste

There are a couple of threads on the forum for getting the most out of your study time. There's one on the first page of the forum: "how to cop on" or something like that.

ironclaw

bythewoods wrote: »

aper 1s (Old mock papers as I did all the actual ones last year)

Are you serious? When did you finish the course? What are you planning on studying for the next 8 months? I've started on all the papers, but I'm pacing myself. Could do two a day but I dont want to as I'll run out of papers.

ironictoaster

He probably didn't finish the entire course yet. Maybe he completed all the questions on paper 1. I think I'm done with paper 1 as well...Don't remember anything though

Cokehead Mother

ironclaw wrote: »

Are you serious? When did you finish the course? What are you planning on studying for the next 8 months? I've started on all the papers, but I'm pacing myself. Could do two a day but I dont want to as I'll run out of papers.

He's repeating.

ironclaw

Ah, I see. Simular to me then French language podcasts really lively up my iPhone.

ironictoaster

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

He's repeating.

Oh yeah never realised that!

Jay P

I did most of my french homework, just have some essay thing to do now. I also did Applied maths study which I'm delighted with. And I did my geography homework and most of my project. I wanted to do more, but I did way more than anyone else I know.

zonEEE

I did a total of 0 homework and 0 study, got work now so will have a lot to do later on tonight

Jiggidy

Nothing. I had my mid-term exams just last week so I'm all studied out I've only just started 5th year but I'm feeling the work piling up already. As from tomorrow I'm gonna do study everynight instead of leaving it till the last night like I've always done.

~Candy~

~Candy~ wrote: »

:(i have so much to do...:D

accounting ; 3questions, and revision for two topics
business; 2exam Qs and revision for unit 1
french; go over all the vocabs from unit 1-6
maths; 2004-2007 paper 2, Q4 partCs
ag ec; project thingy
applied maths; 2exam Qs
home ec ; two exam Qs and revision for somethingy on the revision sheet
and kindly enuff have no other hw from the other teachers.

personally i am gonna catch up some study,i have to catch up maths fundamentals, go over home ec social studies,if i don't do it now, i will never get it ..that will take a good bit of time



the above post was my plan and the corssed offs are what i have actually done..ummm

Fad

*Conor rushes back up stairs*

Irish debate to finish.
English essay to write.
French opinion piece to do.
FÚCK!

Alas the heating in the attic barely works, and the radiator in my room is on full blast and the armchair in here is right beside it. Feck it, warmth is my new priority