christmas study

frog.girl! · 18-12-2009 12:59am #1

well,how much are you all planning to do?what have the teachers been recommending?I'm taking Christmas eve,day and Stephen's day off and probably new years day!how many hours are you planning?I'm thinking about six a day!

TheCandystripes · 18-12-2009 3:11am

22nd to the 2nd im taking a break. im kinda finding this year easy but some serious work will occur after january.

theowen · 18-12-2009 2:10pm

TheCandystripes wrote: »

22nd to the 2nd im taking a break. im kinda finding this year easy but some serious work will occur after january.

Nice break, enjoy!:). I'm just taking this weekend off, crimbo and new years eve. Seriously need to revise wooo:rolleyes:

Lawliet · 18-12-2009 3:05pm

My Chemistry teacher advised waiting until January to start revising. But I'll have to start earlier than that considering the work load the rest of my teachers have piled on.

clartharlear · 18-12-2009 3:30pm

frog.girl! wrote: »

well,how much are you all planning to do?what have the teachers been recommending?I'm taking Christmas eve,day and Stephen's day off and probably new years day!how many hours are you planning?I'm thinking about six a day!

I hope your plan is a little more detailed than that? A certain number of hours per subject, further divided into time devoted to some sub topics, etc...
Unstructured study goals are a recipe for Christmas misery!

frog.girl! · 18-12-2009 3:47pm

haha well I would hope so too.I'm hardly going to post up my whole study plan up now am I?:) Just wondering what everyone else is planning to do,in the hope that I will be inspired and stick to my colour coded,alphabetical and highlighted study plan

clartharlear · 18-12-2009 5:21pm

lol sometimes study plans take more time and effort than study!

Halla Basin · 18-12-2009 5:48pm

frog.girl! wrote: »

well,how much are you all planning to do?what have the teachers been recommending?I'm taking Christmas eve,day and Stephen's day off and probably new years day!how many hours are you planning?I'm thinking about six a day!

Wow, I'm so impressed

Why can't I be you...?

DancingQueen:) · 18-12-2009 7:16pm

Not sure but i have tons of work to do so i plan on getting it all done and studying each subject a bit each day and hopefully get a good bit done. The years flying by though!

KnifeWRENCH · 18-12-2009 7:19pm

Halla Basin wrote: »

Wow, I'm so impressed

Why can't I be you...?

You were warned only yesterday about posting pointless and unhelpful comments. For taking an unnecessary sarcastic dig at another user, have another infraction and a month off.

monaghanmissus · 18-12-2009 7:25pm

DancingQueen:) wrote: »

Not sure but i have tons of work to do so i plan on getting it all done and studying each subject a bit each day and hopefully get a good bit done. The years flying by though!

Isn't it flying??

These last 3 months have been a total blur!

RD77 · 18-12-2009 7:26pm

Take it from someone who did their leaving last year, enjoy the holidays and don't worry about exams! I did a lot of studying last christmas and it ruined the whole holiday. To be honest I had forgotten most of the stuff and ended up having to doing it again later on. Life is too short to be worrying about exams so just enjoy yourself!

Johnny Giles · 18-12-2009 11:26pm

RD77 wrote: »

Take it from someone who did their leaving last year, enjoy the holidays and don't worry about exams! I did a lot of studying last christmas and it ruined the whole holiday. To be honest I had forgotten most of the stuff and ended up having to doing it again later on. Life is too short to be worrying about exams so just enjoy yourself!

That's right. Get out and have a kick around. Kids these days spend too much time studying. In my day we were out mopping up our skills in the park. Kids these days should do the same or else the breed of young talent will die out.

highlydebased · 18-12-2009 11:34pm

Planning on doing something anyway.....probably try and revise the music set works.....and the microeconomics in economics..I need those A's..

TheCandystripes · 18-12-2009 11:38pm

actually im doing economics on my own how do you recommend i study for it?

i'm gonna study economics and maths over the christmas. france is an automatic a1, history, geog and business i'm fine and i'll manag a high c or low b in english.

Daragh101 · 19-12-2009 12:02am

frog.girl! wrote: »

well,how much are you all planning to do?what have the teachers been recommending?I'm taking Christmas eve,day and Stephen's day off and probably new years day!how many hours are you planning?I'm thinking about six a day!

lol...are you serious???..
im planning piss ups rather than study tbh..:D

GLUEY · 20-12-2009 2:33am

Sweet feck all!

Never studied in my life until the day before an exam and not gonna start now.

Take Christmas off, plenty of time to study after, sure you'll just forget it all anyway.

irish-anabel · 22-12-2009 11:53am

I'm gonna spend at least one hour a day contemplating study and the rest of that day contemplating what the f*** I did last night.

yenoBAYUB · 22-12-2009 2:30pm

i wish i knew. i finished up today, took loadsa my books home, havent done a tap and just dont know where to start. I only got biology homework for the holidays, so im thinking get that out of the way forst, then just start revising on chapter one in every subject and take it from there, it has to be done, I'm absolutly terrified at this stage, but i just dont know how to study!! Im thinking making notes and then doing sample exam questions...? Is this a good idea?

Keen2win · 22-12-2009 2:57pm

It's christmas! Don't study ffs:D

yenoBAYUB · 22-12-2009 3:24pm

that seems to be alot of my friends attitudes, but honestly, i was away for the october break, and couldnt do anything, so i think christmas is the perfect time to catch up as much as i can, lifes just so hectic at the mo, school, work, friends, boyfriend, alcohol etc., just gonna have to cut back and study my tushie off.

pfannkuchen · 22-12-2009 4:52pm

My teachers recommended a week off and week of study but who knows how that one will turn out...

yenoBAYUB · 22-12-2009 7:36pm

My teachers didnt really say anything about it, just one said to do a bit of work for our mocks over the christmas, that was it. We need advice, lol

KnifeWRENCH · 22-12-2009 7:46pm

I would strongly advise everyone not to go stressing themselves out over Christmas. You still have over 5 months until the exams; that's plenty of time left to study and revise. You all need some time off, so enjoy your holidays and don't spoil them by getting bogged down in study or getting worked up about the thought of exams.

yenoBAYUB · 22-12-2009 8:33pm

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I would strongly advise everyone not to go stressing themselves out over Christmas. You still have over 5 months until the exams; that's plenty of time left to study and revise. You all need some time off, so enjoy your holidays and don't spoil them by getting bogged down in study or getting worked up about the thought of exams.

I dunno...like i know theres five months left, but its a two year course!

KnifeWRENCH · 22-12-2009 10:25pm

yenoBAYUB wrote: »

I dunno...like i know theres five months left, but its a two year course!

Well, if you're thinking about it that way....what difference does two weeks make to a two year course in the grand scheme of things?
I'm not saying do no study (although if you don't, it's not the end of the world) I'm just saying don't go overdoing it and ruining your Christmas holidays. You can afford to take it easy for two weeks.

GLUEY · 23-12-2009 7:35pm

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Well, if you're thinking about it that way....what difference does two weeks make to a two year course in the grand scheme of things?
I'm not saying do no study (although if you don't, it's not the end of the world) I'm just saying don't go overdoing it and ruining your Christmas holidays. You can afford to take it easy for two weeks.

Amen to that brother!

free gaff? · 23-12-2009 7:41pm

yenoBAYUB wrote: »

I dunno...like i know theres five months left, but its a two year course!

hardly. teachers waste so much time. i mean if it was me the leaving cert cycle would be 3 years but the course itself could be done in a year.

Making It Bad · 23-12-2009 8:31pm

free gaff? wrote: »

hardly. teachers waste so much time. i mean if it was me the leaving cert cycle would be 3 years but the course itself could be done in a year.

Indeed. The majority of teachers don't push you at all either.

peanuthead · 23-12-2009 8:39pm

Hi Guys

From a teacher's perspective, I never give extra work during the Christmas break.

And I don't think you should be doing too much either!! This is your last break of 2009. You only have the Feb mid-term (which will be eaten up with oral prep) and the Easter break - during that one I would advise to do as much as you can.

The problem with this break is the following:

While you have a lot of the year done, you have a lot to go yet. You are only exactly half way through the year - so you have all the same to go again.

If you do not take this break you will find yourself needing it badly in January and there will be so much pressure on with the mocks by then that you will seriously burn out.

If you must do work over the Christmas, I would suggest light, but meaningful stuff like the following:

Organise your notes - get them all together and know where everything is.
Clean up your room permanently; ie: throw out all the crap, and get your study area manageable.
Create/design posters for your walls that contain the English quotes, French/Span/German/Irish/Whatever vocab. grammar, Maths/Physics formulae. That way you will have them around you, in your way for 6 months - bound to help you remember them (Just don't put up too much - alternate between posters)

Don't overdo it at Christmas!!

DC09 · 23-12-2009 10:49pm

TheCandystripes wrote: »

actually im doing economics on my own how do you recommend i study for it?

Im in the same boat..

I just highlight the main points in the ch and just keep going over them,
aswell its good to remember about 3/4 points for each thing (like 4 types of economy/diseconomy of scale, 4 assumptions of monopoly,oligopoly etc.. maybe 5 incase ya forget one)

http://www.youtube.com/user/pajholden This fella is handy for explaining the curves and stuff:pac:

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