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Eimear's study log
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06-10-2013 5:08pm#1Hey my fellow 6th years!
I've decided to start one of these for a bit of motivation I suppose. Or maybe I'm just procrastinating because I should be studying atm.
Anyway, the aim is veterinary so about 575/580 roughly. I'm not sure if I'm being realistic or not tbh. But it's worth a shot
If not I'm looking at physiotherapy or veterinary nursing I'm UCD! If I get any of those ill be chuffed but obviously veterinary medicine is the dream
Here are my goals:
English: A1 (definitely achievable, my best subject by far)
Irish: A2 ( my teacher is the biggest pushover and we get nothing done in class but I find Irish fairly easy so I think this is realistic)
French: A1 ( I'm finding my French is really coming together this year. It helps that I love the language itself. I'm also going to France next summer with my best friend. BUZZING
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Biology: A1 ( I'm basically teaching myself because my teacher is an absolute idiot. Lucky enough I love biology so I should be ok I hope )
Chemistry: A2 ( I'm not enjoying chemistry this year as much as I used to but it's fairly manageable)
Geography: A1 ( Teacher is amazing :O )
Maths : Don't even get me started...:L
LCVP: Aiming for a distinction anyway. Hopefully I won't have to count it
All higher level at the moment. Although I can't see that lasting with my atrocious maths skills :L
So I'll try my best to post here everyday Remember everyone to keep here heads up. This time next year we'll have forgotten about the LC hopefully Au revoir, x Tagged:1
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Ok so yesterday I got a good bit of work done; French: Opinion piece on speaking English over French and a reading comprehension. Learned some idioms.
Biology: Looked over ecology definitions and completed all ecology questions.
Geography: Looked over definitions for test on population density and overpopulation on Tuesday.
Doesn't seem like a lot but it is for me since I've been slacking off lately. Off to do some more geography, Irish, Maths and chemistry.
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Do you mind if I ask how you study for Irish? I find it impossible to learn words off by heart and just rely on whatever words actually enter my head
Sure no problem!:) I usually write any words/ phrases that I find useful on a sticky note and stick it where I'm sure to see it like at my desk/mirrors/wardrobe etc. I also write words in my homework journal where I'm bound to see them. By doing this you're guaranteed to come across the words on a daily basis. You'll see them so often that they'll just stick in your head
Also some of the vocab that comes up in the aural and written comprehensions tends to be repeated so its worth noting any new words that you come across.
In regards to poetry and pros you just have to know them inside out. The easiest thing I find is to know what you want to say in English then try your best to know how to say it in irish. Also make sure you know lots of descriptive adjectives for the pros and an triail characters. Once again you can use the sticky note idea to learn these words.
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Thanks! I'll try these methods and see how it goeseimearo124 wrote: »Sure no problem!:) I usually write any words/ phrases that I find useful on a sticky note and stick it where I'm sure to see it like at my desk/mirrors/wardrobe etc. I also write words in my homework journal where I'm bound to see them. By doing this you're guaranteed to come across the words on a daily basis. You'll see them so often that they'll just stick in your head
Also some of the vocab that comes up in the aural and written comprehensions tends to be repeated so its worth noting any new words that you come across.
In regards to poetry and pros you just have to know them inside out. The easiest thing I find is to know what you want to say in English then try your best to know how to say it in irish. Also make sure you know lots of descriptive adjectives for the pros and an triail characters. Once again you can use the sticky note idea to learn these words.
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Didn't get much in study from 4-6 Im having a fight with two of my friends so I couldn't concentrate. Lol only other 16 year old girls would understand. Anyway I managed to get a little bit done:
French: Started preparing notes on my document.
Chemistry: Wrote up two oxidation reduction experiments. Started notes on the atom.
Aaaaand.. That's about it lol
Off to learn for my geography test tomorrow on population distribution, overpopulation and migration. Hoping for an A1
Might learn some of my an triail notes aswell. Ugh I have so little motivation today
Just remembered that I have an ecology test on Friday so ill have to do a bit for that!0 -
Haven't posted here in about three days :O Didn't do a lot in the past few days I had a geography test on Tuesday. It went really well hoping for an A Can't remember what I've done in the line of studying in the past few days lol. This is what I've done today.
Maths: Questions on stem leaf plots and histograms ( I can't believe I actually done my maths homework lol)
French: Preparing notes on le document
Biology: Notes on sexual reproduction in flowering plants ( possibly the most boring chapter ever )
I have an ecology test tomorrow so I'm going to go over that now. And I have to learn notes on máilí from on triail. Other than that I don't have much else to do for today
I have maths grinds tomorrow evening from 6.30 to 8.00 :O Fingers crossed it all goes well Lets hope this grind teacher is a miracle worker 0 -
I spent nearly 3 hours at maths grinds on Friday I think it completely drained me because I did very little this weekend. I have grinds again next Friday. Hopefully they'll help. My grinds teacher done probability with me on Friday and I feel fairly confident with it now so all going well my maths grades might improve abit:) I just want a bloody D3!!
Maths: Grinds. Questions on stem and leaf plots and histograms.
LCVP: 2010 Q6. 2006 Q3
Biology: Can ye actually believe this? For homework my biology teacher gave us a crossword and a wordsearch on sexual reproduction in flowering plants. Like seriously? That woman really puzzles me. She's an absolute idiot. I think she'd be better off teaching a preschool class than a 6th year biology class. Obviously I didn't do the 'homework' she assigned. I just made notes and done exam questions instead. Lol #rantover
That's all I've done. I'm actually getting so lazy. It's nearly midnight and I still have loads to do. I have a Macbeth test tomorrow but I think I'll be fine for that. I can never really study Macbeth, Ill just look over some key quotes. Be graaand I also have to learn a few paragraphs on Seanín An Mhótair from An Triail. Effort!:/ And I have to learn two 2 page geo essays on migration. Wish me luck. I could be here half the night. Oh and I almost forgot I also have the 'small' task of writing notes for ten questions that might be asked on my document for French. Remind me in future to not leave all my homework until late Sunday night and into Monday morning This needs to stop.
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English: Had a Macbeth test today, in the process of recovering from that Got a comparative essay back. I got 51/70, I'm quite disappointed with that tbh
French: Still doing le document
Chemistry: Volumetric analysis question. Revised atomic theory
Biology: I got my ecology test back today. I got about 63% and I'm really mad with myself for that. I think I was over confident going into it because I had done all the past questions and I really didn't know it all as much as I thought I did. That result definitely isn't acceptable, especially since I'm aiming for an A1. I need to cop on. Big time! Besides that, I made a few flashcards on plant reproduction and learned some of the theory.
Irish: Learned paragraph on Seanín An Mhótair for the test tomorrow.
Geography: Ireland's immigration policy long question.0 -
Sorry that I haven't posted here for the past few days. I've been getting horrible headaches the past couple of days. The wierdest thing is I never get them A friend reckons it's from stress:L does anyone know if stress can cause headaches? God help me if I'm stressed and it's only October :P
So the past few days I've done;
Irish: Learned Bean Uí Chinsealaigh. That's it. Wow I really need to cop on with Irish. This weekend I'm going over all the notes I have on each character in an triail. I don't know about everyone else but my irish teacher hasn't done any grammar with us so far this year or for all of fifth year? So this weekend I'm just going to go over all the basic irregular verbs. The last time I've done irish grammar was in 3rd year. That actually sounds terrible :L
English: We're revising Bishop in class atm so I've just been making notes and learning off quotes for her. I don't really enjoy her poetry if I'm honest. #sylviaalltheway. For the weekend Im just going to learn more bishop quotes and I might plan some past questions on her, time permitting.
French: We've been writing up a lot of answers for questions that could be asked on le document so that we'll have it all prepared. We're also doing vocab and phrases on les personnes ageés so for the weekend ill be learning new vocab for that topic. I had an oral with my teacher on Wednesday. I just talked about myself, my family and my area. She said that my vocab and pronunciation was good but that I needed to develop my points more. I'm pretty happy with that because its the dirt time I've probably had a French conversation. Still lots of improvements to be made Next week were doing school and subjects so ill look over that vocabulary. Also, I was thinking of recording myself speaking French and downloading some podcasts that I could listen to while walking to school. Anyway I should stop ranting lol.
Geography: I got my test back on population etc. 71% Im so disappointed with myself. I made the most stupid mistake. Like I got 17/20 on the graph question, which I probably should be getting full marks in. So I instantly lost 3 marks there just for not labelling the axis. But I know I won't make the same mistake again. I also lost marks for reading from the graph because I said 4% instead of saying 4% of the total population. So they really were silly errors. I suppose it's not a terrible result but I know I can do better. Have to learn 2 long questions for the weekend- impacts of migration on receiver and donor regions & comment on the effect of rural to urban migration in a developed and developing region.
Maths: Teacher was at an in service today and she just gave us some work to do so I done that today. Grinds again tomorrow evening I do feel I benifited from it last week but I was there for 2 and half hours straight with no break and I had minimal energy left after it. I barely got any study done last weekend because I was so wrecked after it Anyway, I'm planning on revising logs during my grinds and maybe get some help with a worksheet that I have due for Monday.
Chemistry: Ahhhhh! I have a huge revision test on Tuesday and I'm so scared It's basically on all ye titrations- acid base, redox and oxidation reduction, the atom, electrons in the atom, the periodic table, stichiometty and the gas laws. I literally feel so unprepared like I don't know what to do. I've been making notes and attempting to learn stuff but nothing's going in. I've no problem doing the calculations and stuff but I always mess up when I go to to them in a test. I'm stressing myself out thinking of it :L
Biology: I'm actually cracking up here. I hate my teacher so much. I can't stand her. There are five biology classes in my year and I ended up with the most annoying and irrelevant teacher ever. Wow I sound like a total bitch but here's an example of her stupidness :L - She was giving an example of a food chain and her is what she said: Cabbage leaf- ladybird- sparrow hawk. Seriously. Wtf? Since when do sparrow hawks eat ladybirds. Since when does any bird of prey eat a bloody LADYBIRD? I just don't have the words. Dare I say any more. I'm so sorry I'm ranting but she just angers me so much lol. I used to have a genuine passion for biology but lately, I don't even want to go to the class because I find it so un appealing, not very challenging, thought provoking or stimulating whatsoever. Anyway, I made notes on sexual reproduction of flowering plants and I plan on doing all the past exam questions over the weekend.
LCVP (yes we get homework haha): Learned all theory regarding work experience/ shadowing ( common sense tbh)0 -
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Maths: Worked on probability in my grinds this evening . Feel fairly confident with it
I've nothing to do for the rest of the night so I might as well study. I'm going coursing tomorrow and on Sunday so ill have little time this weekend. So I'm going to do as much as I can tonight. Sure what else would you be doing on a Friday evening :L #leavingcertproblems0 -
Completely forget about this study log. My bad :O The past few days have been hectic. It was my birthday on Monday. Finally 17! I don't feel so young anymore And our musical Jesus Christ Superstar has being going on for the last few days and our camogie team one the All Ireland 7's Final so our school has been so busy and I'm getting the distracted by all the happenings :P
Most of the homework I've been doing isn't due until after midterm but I've made a start on a lot of it:
Irish: 2013 Prós Question- Oisín I dTír na nÓg. I've half of the 2013 An Triail Question done so ill finish that tomorrow
Chemistry: Started organic chemistry. Made notes on alkenes, alkenes and alkyenes.
English: Started 2011 comprenhension Text 1 part (a). I have to do part (b) and part (a) of Text 3 over the midterm.
French: Done the two reading comprehensions from 2011. Journal into me 2007 for over the midterm.
Geography: O.S. Map questions 2012 and 2010.
Biology: 2013, 2011 plant reproduction and photosynthesis exam questions.
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Journal into me. Lollll good one. *Journal Intime* I really need to stop posting from my phone. Predictive text is not a good idea. There's so many other typos there but I'm too lazy to correct them. The journal Intime one was annoying me though :L 0
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Wow I have really neglected this :L Time to get back into it. Our school doesn't have Christmas tests but these are my averages for my Christmas Report..They're kind of giving me an indication of what I need to do (a lot)
English- A2
Irish- B2
Maths - D3 wooooop
French- A2
Biology- A2
Geography- A1
Chemistry- B1
LCVP- Distinction
Thats about 535 points if im right. So, im still way off veterinary. But tbh, I feel this is my optimum so idk I'd be just scraping physiotherapy in Trinity with these results if Im lucky. I didnt do too bad I guess, but I need to work way harder if Im going to get veterinary.
So this weekend I done;
•Biology: Revised food and done all oat exam papers on it. Learned transpiration in plants. Different plant tissues & The TS of a root.
•French: Revised faire in all tenses. Learned vocab and phrases on sport for test on Wednesday.
•Chemistry: Notes on chapter 21 and 22 (organic)
•Maths: Worksheet (could hardly do any of the questions :L)
•Geography: Question on central place theory.
Still have to learn 2 other geo long questions and a paragraph about an meain chumarsaide in Irish. Productive enough weekend but I still have to push myself a bit harder. On a positive note, I've no school on Friday because of Pt meetings (ahhhh) and Monday. So thats a four day weekend to look forward too. Yaaaay and only 24 days until Christmas. So excited!! 0 -
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I'm so happy that the Christmas holidays have arrived The past couple of weeks have been pretty hectic in school with all the different activities: Christmas mass, Carol service evening, our school talent competition, teacher v students Christmas debate, Christmas fashion show & selling raffle tickets for the Christmas hampers :O Pheww its been a hectic few days. I haven't had much time for any extra studying so I've just been doing my homework. Plan on getting loads done over Christmas. Only 5 weeks until the Mocks when we return to school Obviously Im taking the 24th, 25th, 31st and the 1st of Jan off;) Also I have a New Years Resolution. Im going to make an extra effort to eat healthily. I was doing so good at it over the summer and my energy levels were sky high from eating plenty of fruits and natural fiber. But as soon as sixth year came along it was back to the junk food. Im sure many of you will agree that its so much easier to grab the packet of crisps, instant noodles or a cup of tea with all the studying and stress. But its really taking its toll on my energy levels so Im really hoping to get back into the healthy eating thing in the New Year. Lots of fruit, veggies, wholegrains and green tea:) Plan on getting back into my jogging too:D I hope some of you can join me in my new plan. Trust me, a healthy diet and exercise can and will make a difference your results. A healthy body is a healthy mind!:) Lol sorry for the big rant everyone. I talk a lot :L 0
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French: Reading Comprehensions.
Geo: Revised convergent and divergent plates. Learned urban problems question on Rio/São Paulo.
Biology: Learned all experiments on microscope/cell and done all exam questions on them. Notes on blood chapter.
Irish: Learned Spailpín Fánach notes.
It doesnt seem like much but I feel I got a good bit done. Off to my friends house now to get ready for tonight. Vodkaaaaaa:P Happy New Year everyone and enjoy yereselves if yere going out tonight 0 -
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I've basically being doing Biology the whole day. I have a test tomorrow on all the experiments and I've literally spent hours and hours studying them. I done every single exam question on ALL the experiments which has taken forever. Knowing my luck my teacher will forget about the test or it will end up being really easy or something. All I know is if I dont get an A, I'll give up. Atleast I have all the practicals revised fairly well for the mocks! It better be worth it seeing as I've sacraficed all my other subjects today. Might force myself to study some Geo and French. Im really wrecked though.
My school is having study from 9-5 every Saturday until June. Looks like my weekends are going to be sacraficed too. This better be worth it Also I've decided to dedicate an hour each to practicing for the Irish and French orals every Friday.. 0 -
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