Ciara95's study/procrastination log

ciara95

In an attempt to get myself back on track I've decided to log my study in my attempt to remain sane on the way to June.

Intro: I'm Ciara, I'm 17, from Dublin and I want to study Business and Management in D.I.T. The course is 400 points, but theres a €2000 scholarship if I get 500 points, plus €500 from my parents. So I'm hoping for anything over 500.

I got 510 points in my Christmas exams, with not a lot of study.

Subjects:
English
Irish
Maths
French
Geography
Business
Economics

All at higher level. I average a D in maths, A/B1 in business and economics, mostly Bs in everything.

ciara95

Friday 25th Jan:

• One hour maths grind- focusing on paper two and the exam

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English P1:

• read notes on the exam structure and tips.

• Wrote a bulletpoint answer for the 2012 comprehension, text 1.

• Made notes on the composition section.

English P2:
Revised the comparative, made notes on:

• cultural context

• quotes

Saturday 26th
No study! I got a freakish 14 hour sleep, then I went to Nandos with two of my girls in 5th year, who are unstressed out. Talked about my debs for FOREVER (eek excitement), then we went to Starbucks afterwards. Such a nice day off!

Sunday 27th
I made mindmaps for 3 of the poets, with points on theme and language techniques, with relevant quotes and brief explanations for each:
Bishop
Shakespeare
Mahon

Prodigious

I don't suppose you'd be interested in uploading said mind maps ?

ciara95

Methememb wrote: »

I don't suppose you'd be interested in uploading said mind maps ?

I haven't got time to scan and upload them now but I would over midterm if anyone would like.
They're nothing fancy, one page per poet

ciara95

-Plath mind map
-Learnt Macbeth quotes, the ones I use most which are relevant for characters and themes
-Did bits of questions from Maths Paper 2 2013 and 2012.
-Felt like crying because why is maths so hard and my exam is on Thursday. I feel like I might fail and I've never failed an exam before.

ciara95

I revised all of Statistics and Probability (4chapters), made brief notes
did two and a half exam q's on stats/prob and one on trig functions

ciara95

Maths Paper 2 (we're only sitting a mock in this paper)
-3 25mark questions
-half a 75 mark question.
I'm really going to struggle with the 75mark questions, they're IMPOSSIBLE to me

After a twitter break, now to revise English Paper 2 for tomorrow.
Then watch Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents

ciara95

English Paper 2:
-Made a mind map for Macbeth on characters, theme and language
-Learned quotes for the comparative on my two texts and read my old essays

My hand will be dead tomorrow omg.
That's all the studying for today thankfully.

cba

ciara95 wrote: »

English Paper 2:
-Made a mind map for Macbeth on characters, theme and language
-Learned quotes for the comparative on my two texts and read my old essays

My hand will be dead tomorrow omg.
That's all the studying for today thankfully.

well done!

ciara95

cba wrote: »

well done!

thanks very much

ciara95

Maths Paper 2:
-did 2 25mark questions and half a 75 mark question.
Im fúcked for that exam tomorrow. Completely

Now for dinner and then to study geography, the teacher gave us lots of hints but I don't have my essays learnt!
not looking forward to tomorrow.

ciara95

Maths P2: WAS A DREAM!
Im so happy, I can never do the long questions but I think I got one right. I didnt leave any blanks and I didn't get stressed out. Practising past papers really does help!
prediction: C3/ D1 (if all went as well as I thought)

Geography:
The short questions were lovely, possibly got full marks. I didn't revise the long questions in depth but I think they mostly worked out fine.
prediction: B2/B3

I have Irish paper 1 tomorrow. I'm going to take it easy on the study tonight, revise listening vocab, debate vocab, essay phrases and an coras oideachais.