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bluejaymraz's Study Log.
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27-01-2013 12:20am#1So where to begin? An introduction I suppose. Aine, 17 (6 and a half weeks away from 18), Westmeath, still not entirely sure what I want to do after the mountain that is the LC, but the way I'm headed it's looking like I'll be hoppin' on the Arts train so I'll probably do English and geography along with something else.
Subjects are all higher (for now anyway):
English
Irish
Maths
French
Biology
Accounting
Geography
Hoping to get as many points as I can, aiming for roughly 525ish. Anything over that would be aaaamazing. Fingers crossed
Hoping this will give me some motivaton to get going if I have to write everything down and be shamed if I dont do it.
Mocks start Tuesday!
So what I did today:
Maths: Statistics, Line, Circle
English: Hopkins in a kind of a way, half of Bishop
Accounting: Incomplete records question
Plans for tomorrow:
English: finish Bishop, Mahon, possibly Plath aswell
Biology: majority of genetics
Geography: revise biome, secondary activities in Dublin and West
Hopefully I'll actually do something tomorrow.0
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Today's mocks:
Irish Paper 1 - wasn' t actually too bad all things considered. Decided to write an article despite having never written one in my life, only went for it because it was on the one thing I had actually half studied. Aural was fairly alright aswell, still had 2 blanks at the end though. Seriously hate only getting to hear everything twice.
Maths Paper 2 was a thousand times better than I ever imgined it would have been considering the train wreck that was papet 1 yesterday. Manged to do most of the questions, hopefully. Whoever set those papers seems to have some fascination with the planets and such......
Today's study achievements:
Biology - a good bit of plant biology, few short questions, few experiment questions and 3 longs. Still have some experiments, dna and ecology to do when I get in the the morning aswell.
Finished at 12 tomorrow and then Monday off so I'm pretty happy right now 0 -
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Today's achievements:
Accounting - Tabs, published, marginal. These were fairly handy apart from a few silly mistakes.
Geography - tertiary in P.B. and Mezzo. and read over manufacturing in Dublin and West. Still have so much to do though and I won't he out of my misery until Friday
Irish - read over sample answers for most of the poems/pros from last year's dreimire and some sheets, had a quick look over Geibheann and Colscaradh from the book, read over the summaries of Chapters 3,4,5 in A Thig na Tit Orm
Took me far longer to do than I thought it would seeing as I did everything apart from the accounting in the sitting room while watching the Irish match, half the English match and then the United match.
Might not get a whole lot of work done tomorrow either because I might go to the Westmeath/Louth match in the afternoon.......possibly......we'll see........maybe.....0 -
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I thought that's what you were doing in like 3 hours after school! Although I still wouldn't get that done in a day. Maybe you will motivate me to do morebluejaymraz wrote: »Have a half day every day this week with the mocks so I've been home since 1 and started around 2.
After the midterm there will be no doubt be waaaaay less study done seeing as homework will take up most of my time and I'll probably probably only get an hour/hour and a half study in.
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Accounting wasn't too bad, I practically made up the majority of the ratios though for the interpretation question. I learned them last night but they were all so similar, pretty sure I got at least 2 of them wrong.....apart from that the rest was alright
French tomorrow, I've barely done anything for it. What can you do? All I've done is:
-gone over tenses
-diary phrases
-opinion question phrases
-environment vocab
-alcohol vocab
We'll just have to hope and pray that the questions are nice to me. Hope and pray.
I think I've spent more time playing the piano this evening than I did studying......and I only managed to learn like 2 bars0 -
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Thank youBrownBear11 wrote: »You'll never know just how jealous I am of that A1 in Irish, i would do anything for one in the real thing!
Well done by the way!
I have no idea how it happened really. Both papers just seemed to fall in my favour, complete fluke if you ask me. Hopefully now I can go into the oral and do the same thing.
I was no way expecting to do that well so it's kind of given me a bit of a boost to know that I can do that well if I put a bit of work into it.
I'm sure you will get that A1 if you really put enough work into it. We both will 0 -
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Not too bad a day today on the work front:
English - homework question on Shakespeare's use of sonnet form in sonnets 18 and 29, learned quotes for both sonnets
Geography - two 30 mark questions on problems of rapid urban growth that we've had since Wednesday
French - learned half of my document for Tuesday
Biology - notes on human reproduction. Why the chapter has to be so long and complicated I'll never know.
Plan for tomorrow:
-Finish learning French document
-Finish maths homework
-Learn reproduction notes
Finished for the night, now to watch Ant and Dec with a bitta pizza. 0 -
bluejaymraz wrote: »Thank you
I have no idea how it happened really. Both papers just seemed to fall in my favour, complete fluke if you ask me. Hopefully now I can go into the oral and do the same thing.
I was no way expecting to do that well so it's kind of given me a bit of a boost to know that I can do that well if I put a bit of work into it.
I'm sure you will get that A1 if you really put enough work into it. We both will
Ah now, you earn your luck and all that. You're too modest
I'm still licking my wounds over the Irish paper, got a B when I needed an A. The worrying thing is that was pretty much my best shot at it as well. I've decided I'm just gonna absolutely plague my Irish teacher from now 'till June with stuff to correct, see where that gets me
Loving the optimism
How 'bout this; I'll swap you every point I get in August for that 1 A1? i don't care if it is counterproductive for getting into college, I want that A1 :pac: 0 -
Optimism's my new thing.BrownBear11 wrote: »
Ah now, you earn your luck and all that. You're too modest
I'm still licking my wounds over the Irish paper, got a B when I needed an A. The worrying thing is that was pretty much my best shot at it as well. I've decided I'm just gonna absolutely plague my Irish teacher from now 'till June with stuff to correct, see where that gets me
Loving the optimism How 'bout this; I'll swap you every point I get in August for that 1 A1? i don't care if it is counterproductive for getting into college, I want that A1 :pac:
As much as I'd love all of you points, I'd love the A1 myself even more if I'm honest.
We should have some kind of a bet to motivate us to get those A1s.0 -
bluejaymraz wrote: »Optimism's my new thing.
As much as I'd love all of you points, I'd love the A1 myself even more if I'm honest.
We should have some kind of a bet to motivate us to get those A1s.
I'm 1001% sure you'll put me to shame but ,oohhhh it's on
The loser dies... their hair :pac: Extreme? Me? Never!0 -
B.b.b.but I love my hair colour!BrownBear11 wrote: »
I'm 1001% sure you'll put me to shame but ,oohhhh it's on
The loser dies... their hair :pac: Extreme? Me? Never!
Something less drastic and we have ourselves a deal.0 -
bluejaymraz wrote: »B.b.b.but I love my hair colour!
Something less drastic and we have ourselves a deal.
So, a tenner it is then? 0 -
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It's a photo from my sister's wedding 2 years ago when I was the only bridesmaid.What're you doing for your French document? I really need to start getting one ready but I'm so stuck for ideas. :pac: Nothing too wild or exciting but still slightly different from everyone else's holiday/gaeltacht/debs photos.
We've had them done for ages. We had to hand up the photo at the end of September and then got them back with a list of questions which we had to hand up the responses to at October midterm. Then we had to correct and learn them over the Christmas break. I corrected it, I just didn't learn it.0 -
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Yeah I was going to do something more exciting than the wedding but I completely forgot that we had to hand it up and the night before my brain just went "Ahhhhh I'll be murdered if I don't hand it up on time! Gimme a photo quick!" Don't know what I would have used though if I had given myself time to think about it. It's really hard to think of something that I wouldn't be talking about anyway during the oral.....I could have done great things.I was a bridesmaid at my sister's wedding! Haha, I probably won't do that though, I dunno, might get some dull topic like the environment or something and learn enough about it to keep me going for a few minutes. Or I might just go in and hope that I won't get asked how to describe radioactivity in French or something. :pac: And yeah, saying my French teacher is terrible genuinely does her justice, though in fairness I really could've started this sooner. :pac:
But aaaaaanyhoo, what I conquered today:
- finished learning French document
- learned reproduction and about 1 quarter of ecology (another of those incredibly long chapters, yawn)
- wrote out a heap of geography noted and learned the bits that I answered the question on yesterday, yes it would have made far more sense to learn it and then answer the question rather then the opposite way around which I did :L
- went back over sraiths 1,2,6,10 that I learned last week/end and learned no. 3. 5 down......15 to go.
Roll on tomorrow and the pile of mock results that are going to come rolling in. 0 -
So much for the pile of mock results rolling in - only got the one back.....It wasn't great either 65% S'alright though, no result was higher than a C in any of the 3 higher level classes. Seemingly whoever marked them was really harsh on anyone who got over 55%, for no apparent reason. The teachers have no idea how it was marked either because they used no codes or anything while they were at it. Even though my result is still one of the best and I was pre-warned on Friday, I'm still just a little bit gutted on the inside. Serious English head here :P
Biology was corrected really strangely too. The corrector seemed to give out 0s for a whole load of answers if they weren't on the marking scheme, even if they were perfectly valid. The marking scheme just wasn't as comprehensive as it should be. Hoping that by the time we've finished correcting it tomorrow that I can get my self another 20ish marks that'l bump me up a grade.
Study done for today:
- wrote out 2 and a half copy pages in Irish on unemployment/ recession/ that kind of thing for homework. Might use it in an essay on the economy that's due for Monday
- wrote out phrases from chapter 3 in dreimire
- had a quick run back over my French document in my head (seeing as I brought home the wrong copy.....)
- learned about 3/4 of sraith 8 in Irish, getting there slowly but surely
- first chapter of algebra0 -
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Oh hai there study log, long time no see. I suppose I should get back into updating you now that I have a few minutes to spare.
Most of the study that I've done over the week has been oral work, Irish and French, seeing as the mock orals are upon me. I really shouls have started sooner.......it's not like they were sprung on me without any warning or anything.
Managed to finish off learning the first 10 sraith pictiur in Irish for tomorrow after school. Now I need to get cracking on the next half for Wednesday If I manage to learn them all I think I'll call myself superwoman.
French has been a bit all over the place. I've tried to learn off old stuff that I have done from last year but new stuff just keep building up so I gave up on learning last years stuff for now. I'll just have to blitz through it in a night or too before the 13th of March.
That's practically all I've done all week. It feels like barely anything. Can't wait for the orals to be over with, or at least the first round of mock orals, so I can get back to some proper effective study.0 -
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Final mock result came back on Friday, Accounting. I somehow managed to get 80%! Got full marks for the depreciation question, delighted. One was marked out of 80 instead of 60, silly corrector. Interpretation and marginal questions were dodgy enough in places, although I knew that. Still delighted overall.
So mocks overall:
English 65%
Maths 63%
French 70%
Geography 81%
Irish 90%
Biology 85%
Accounting 80%
Gives me a points total of 525, which is right on target for the NUIM Scholarship. Still plenty of work to be done though, hoping to turn the majority of those results into As by the time the leaving comes. 0 -
Study for the weekend hasn't been half as productive as I'd hoped it would be
But what can ya do. I did manage to do:
-Geography: land use zones in cities, applied to Dublin
-Biology: Finally finished ecology, revised the nervous system which we did last week
Irish oral: me fein, mo theaghlach, mo theach, obair ti, an seomra is fearr liom, mo cheantar agus na haiseanna, fadhbanna sa cheantar, abhar scoile, na haiseanna scoile, an idirbhliain
French oral: revised moi meme, la famille, ma maison, le dernier film que j'ai vu, learned la ville, les taches menagers, ma meilleur copine, le weekend in three tenses
Still so much oral work to do in both languages. Mock Irish oral in full is on Tuesday after school and then mock French one is Wednesday. Looks like I'm going to be making the majority of them up on the spot. There just aren't enough hours in the day. Probably won't get a whole lot done tomorrow evening either. First I have a walk home because my sister, her husband and my niece are coming home from England. Then I've to go to piano and some serious practising needs to be done because I haven't even taken the sheets out of my bag from last week. Although the piece is "On My Own" from Les Mis so I think I'm going to love the practising! 0 -
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As far as I know you just have to get at least 525 points to get it. It's €1000 and if you've applied for on campus accommodation you're automatically given a place.Hey just wondering, what are the requirements for the 525 NUIM grant you mentioned? It's my second choice but I had been thinking of making it my first and a scholarship would definitely tip me towards it?
It just gives me something to aim for. I've only applied for Arts which is 370 which I think I could get in my sleep tbh. I need some kind of motivation to keep me going.0 -
bluejaymraz wrote: »As far as I know you just have to get at least 525 points to get it. It's €1000 and if you've applied for on campus accommodation you're automatically given a place.
It just gives me something to aim for. I've only applied for Arts which is 370 which I think I could get in my sleep tbh. I need some kind of motivation to keep me going.
Aw sweet, thanks for the info. Gives me something to work towards 0 -
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