Schols Schols Schols, information and venting thread.

I'm disgusted with how my Christmas went. I was hoping Christmas Day would be a bit of a break so I could relax and recharge my batteries but I became horrendously ill. Feeling better today but still quite weak and tired so I feel more in need of a break than ever but I can't afford to waste any more time Think this could really have affected my chances, as if they weren't low enough already!

Yeah, I'm fine now. Thanks Definitely slowed me down a lot in terms of study but I'm just going to try to use the time left wisely!

Everyone I've spoken to seems quite disappointed with what they've gotten done over the last week or so. How have boardsies been getting on?

Hollzy wrote: »

Yeah, I'm fine now. Thanks Definitely slowed me down a lot in terms of study but I'm just going to try to use the time left wisely!

Everyone I've spoken to seems quite disappointed with what they've gotten done over the last week or so. How have boardsies been getting on?

Disappointed with what i've done this last fortnight, but in too deep to quit now. Just make it end.

The problem is, for some people "unproductive" means 2 hours of study a day, for some it means no study at all in 2-3 days :P

Libraries reopened today, highlight of my social calendar so far this year. No, really.

I'd just like to say good luck to all you guys going for schols, and to take heart from the fact you're in the metaphorical home straight now, and soon it'll be over which, regardless of how it's going, should be something to look forward to.

The best advice I can give you for next week is to just always keep positive about it and not despair about the things you get wrong or don't know in each exam and just focus on the next one all the time. Leave postmortems until all of the exams are over, if you must carry out postmortems at all (which I know I had to, it's impossible for me to resist).

I think at this rate I'll be happy to survive Schols Studying has gone so badly but whatever I do get done, I think of how it'll benefit me for the final exams (competition for the moderatorship I want will be tough).

If I pass I'll be happy. I think I'm ok for one of my exams (4 of 6 questions should be answered confidently enough), the other two exam outcomes are extremely uncertain at the moment.

Best of luck to everyone sitting Schols next week. As European Son said, try to stay positive and know that you're nearly at the end now; also, I second his advice to avoid post-mortems wherever possible!!

Most of the time you won't have any of idea of how the exams have gone; I had one paper where one question was fine and the other complete sh*te, but I still got schols in the end as apparently the first question was good enough to outweigh the second and get me over the 70 line in that paper. So try not to over-analyse next week, keep your head down, & power through them; once you've got the first one out of the way I find you get into the 'exam groove' and the rest of the week will fly. Plus you'll be miles ahead in preparing for the summer exams, be proud of that!

Even if you don't get it, it still shows an incredible determination & strength of character to apply for & sit the exams, so be proud of your dedication and of getting this far

No. Brain died. So many informations. Too many.

Ah, I see. Best of luck anyway! I want to do zoology which has about thirty places. The popularity fluctuates from year to year but should definitely be safe with a 2.1 in summer.

My brain has stopped working as well. It's getting confused about day to day life now, nevermind biochemistry :S

Cheers for all the advice/good wishes people! Sorta hard to believe this'll all be over in a week o,o. Even weirder to think that some people have begun exams already.

Sometimes I actually feel like my head is heavy and full and nothing else is going to fit in there. But if I eat some chocolate, that feeling clears and I get a lot more productive. Hmmm, it appears if I want schols, I'm also going to have to give myself diabetes.

There's so much to learn for geology... I'm hoping that seeing as there are no past papers for the petrology section, one of the questions will be the same as one on the sample paper they gave us, or at least very similar. But I'm not sure how likely that is. If something like that autobiography of a calcium atom came up, there's no way I'd do it though. I don't know how to go about an essay like that!

Terrible day of study. Blah.

Also, just realised today that one of my examiners sent out a finicky technical not-very-useful research paper by accident, instead of the nice relevant general review paper on the actual reading list. I neglected to read in detail the 5 titles on said list, naively assuming that they would correlate to the 5 papers he sent out. I was only 80% correct.

Not a big deal. Just very annoying, that review would have made my initial study much easier to get around, and I wasted time on the useless one instead...

Best of luck everyone!