Study????

disney

Honestly, how many af ye have started studyin'? Anyone revise neting over the hols?! I kinda feel bad 4 not doin neting!!!!

And if u havent started, wen r ya goin to???!!!:rolleyes:

Thanxx!!:D

yourpetzombie

I did a little bit of Music and Science. Like maybe three hours altogether. Which is really crap. I'm supposed to be doing my homework right now, but here I am...

I'll start tomorrow. I should've done loads during the break, but I get so easily distracted.

Piste

I have a Maths Paper and Four History Essays due in tomorrow. I only have half the paper done and one essay done.

And yet I care not

I will pay for this come June.

Killaqueen!!!

Study? HA HA HA HA HA! Haven't done ANY. All I've been doing is doing the homework...which is written stuff. Like we were set 3 full past maths exam papers and 2 science ones. I kinda had to do them cos my teacher would've killed me if I didn't. And yet, on the maths I skip like every question..I can't really do it. And thats about it....

lilmissprincess

Over the holidays we were given: an entire Maths exam( like Papers 1 and 2, HL), a religion paper, sections of the business book to learn, an irish prose to study for exam without teacher going through it, and then science defention things. And expected by every other teacher to study. Well, I did teh Maths (I'm afraid of the teacher), will ebing doing the Religion tommorrow night, I looked over the irish and wrote out the science on the one day it rained and there was nothing on tv. Me gonna suffer in June.

Twinkle-star15

Meep. I still haven't started studying....or finished my art project yet....which is bad, because it's due in a week.... which isn't very nice....I'm screwed, aren't I? Oh well. Maybe if I close my eyes, it'll go away....

Piste

I'm surfing the internet now, this says lots about my application.

philologos

yourpetzombie wrote:

I'll start tomorrow. I should've done loads during the break, but I get so easily distracted.

thats what I used to say, then I didn't study much in the end, still did ok its not the end of the world

PurpleFistMixer

I was on the internet every night DURING my JC. >.>

DonaldDuck

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

I was on the internet every night DURING my JC. >.>

I was guilty of that as well Nothing like a few hours of computer after every exam

lilmissprincess

Well, they say relax...something tells me I won't be allowed...

PurpleFistMixer

Luckily for me, my sister was doing her Leaving Cert at the time, and thus, nobody cared what I was doing. Or not doing for that matter.

Crania

I've yet to properly start studying, I've done bits and pieces here and there, I should've done a lot of study over the holidays and I should be doing an hour or two study a night but to be honest I'm not really bothered, I barely studied for the mocks and I did quite good. Its amazing the amount of stuff you can study in the final week and the night before the exam. Anyway its only the JC, it doesnt matter, so dont be worrying your little selves!

macroman

ive yet to do ANYTHING studywise! I did okay in the Mocks....nearly all honours! Which come September if that comes out I will be the proud owner of a brand new Laptop
I will finish my Junior Cert 3 days before it's over! Just an extra 3 days lie-in!

lilmissprincess

I was an idiot who decided "Oh, I'm useless at drawing and Home Ec, why don't I keep on music?". Hated the subject due to a recorder for two years. And now realise that I get two lovely days of lie ins and have to go in on the Wednesday for a music exam. Bah humbug.

yourpetzombie

lilmissprincess wrote:

I was an idiot who decided "Oh, I'm useless at drawing and Home Ec, why don't I keep on music?". Hated the subject due to a recorder for two years. And now realise that I get two lovely days of lie ins and have to go in on the Wednesday for a music exam. Bah humbug.

I feel your pain! I don't think I'm going to do any study for Music really until those few days though.

I have yet to break the news to my parents that I'll be going out during the Junior Cert. Yay... Everyone else will be finished their exams except for us Music kids so we've (about half the year) all decided to go out the weekend before the Music. I'm excited about it already, seeing as I'm not going to be out again before the Junior. Blah.

Twinkle-star15

I get 3 lovely days of lie-ins before my music exam. But I love music- it's my favourite subject. I just wish I hadn't ****ed up my practical.... But I can make up for that. I hope.

Did the art exam- trés easy, I was so happy. I still haven't started studying, but I'm just not thinking about the exams. Denial always works :cool:

(^_^)~Shaz.

N05H3AD

Twinkle-star15 wrote:

I get 3 lovely days of lie-ins before my music exam. But I love music- it's my favourite subject. I just wish I hadn't ****ed up my practical.... But I can make up for that. I hope.

Did the art exam- trés easy, I was so happy. I still haven't started studying, but I'm just not thinking about the exams. Denial always works :cool:

(^_^)~Shaz.

haven't start either, i keep planning 2 but it just never happens! i brought in a pineapple for the art exam like the hard b****** i am, whilst every other lad in the school just took off their shoe and drew it

lilmissprincess

I loved musicv in first year, then to discover that the teacher is actually useless, she's out the whole time, and we're not given a teacher who will continue with the curriculum until she's out for more than 3 weeks. Today she went on the first year school tour to Bunratty, so we had two free classes. Not that I don't like having free classes, but I'm not so great at Music and I think it'd be better if we could at least revise.
Our Geography teacher is a star for revision, but they won't let him teach us history ( another subject we're all fecked in taught by herself).
Study at home? I've done Science, Maths and History.

Ratch

havnt opened a book! at all , but most of my hw is revision qs, so hope fully thatl b ok, im gona b soooo streased b4 th exams!!!!!!!!!!

PurpleFistMixer

Please less of the text speak... there is a limit on the length of a post, but I assure you, you're highly unlikely to ever encounter it.

peachesxcream

I've been doing all the sort-answer Home Ec questions, and some science too. I know it's not much but it's better than nothing!

oRlyYaRly

I just started yesterday. Bit by bit.

lilmissprincess

Science revision book has met highlighter. 3 of. History teacher has finally copped on and is using proper notes from other revision book instead of her useless "KEYWORDS". Geography teacher is the bomb, he goes through every detail, we're practically saying the classes for him he so good. Maths. Well, theres always tomorrow. Basically, thats it, I do have an entire extra week to study music...

sseanpatterson

iv studied everytin except history and geography (and cspe obviously!!) cos im not keeping them on for leaving cert...wats d point in studyin for someting u dont need???

lilmissprincess

To say.."I got loads of honours!!"..duh..

disney

ya I FINALLY started 2day. Had been doin little bits (very little!!) but I got stuck in 2day. Done ok in da mocks, i was more stressed b4 them than I am now. Good or a bad thing??!!:cool:

philologos

well you will still do okay regardless of the amount of study you do, its all there somewhere from the last three years you have been working in school...

singingstranger

Just thought I'd pop along to give you guys some relaxing words: really, if you've been anyway attentive in your classes since Xmas of 2nd year you'll fly through it. Like you guys I had the Junior Cert right in the middle of the World Cup (yeah, I think it mighta been worse for me because I'm a football nut and Ireland had qualified that time!) and I can recall finishing school on the Friday, being in my job for the weekend, and taking the Monday and Tuesday off to study. I covered the Physics chunk of Science on the Wednesday and Chemistry on the Thursday. That Friday morning I tried to do Biology with the tournament starting, but Senegal beat France, and I was lost.

I didn't get to start studying properly at all until the Bank Holiday Monday (yes, that's still a week away, so you've plenty of time!) and just revised stuff the evenings before exam - not the nights before: if there's any study tips I'd give you it'd be to study from about 6:30pm or 7pm until 10:30pm at latest, you'll be glad of the sleep the next day and it'll also help to digest the stuff you've learned the night before - and I came out the other end with 8 A's and a B, all in HL subjects.

Now I'm used to hearing "ah, but you're a smart guy" stuff from people but it's really all about not destroying yourself with panic. I know too many people, even now in college, who know things perfectly the evening before the exam but who get short memory blanks in the exams themselves. Then because they panic they get agitated, and can't settle themselves to remember stuff - material they actually know! - and some have actually failed individual exams as a result.

The most important thing is just to keep taking deep breaths, don't at all panic, and look after your body for the next month or so. Eat Weetabix the morning of exams (slow release of carbohyrates for the day, yadda yadda), if you have bad butterflies then avoid fruit juices, especially orange - take milk or just water instead, and make sure you're well rested. Just remember not to press yourself too much and to keep in mind what the JC is really worth in the bigger scheme of things.

I might come back here with more general lifestyle tips for around the exams themselves but tbh it's probably nothing that most of you haven't already heard at this stage. Best of luck to all you guys, take it easy for the next month and enjoy your summer!

Oh, and lilmissprincess: don't bother studying for music for the entire week, go out a night or something. Music's an absolute doddle.