Anyone started studying yet?

ninebeanrows

With just under 1 month to go (-2 days) until English Paper 1, have people started into their studies yet?

I'm just launching into mine, lots of Biology, Geography and Physics to cover. Also French and Maths..

So have you started yet?

snapjiggyfluff

Yeah, started on Sunday. Made out a list of absolutely everything I have to cover in every subject. Kinda scared myself and then got stuck into it. 6 hours sunday, 6 hours yesterday. Stayed at home today, done 2 hours, I''l do another 2 hours at 2.30. German grind from 5-6 and then 7-9. That'll be 7 hours, seems like a lot but I still hav a lot to do!!!!

doria gray

I did 8 hours saturday, 5 hours sunday and 6 hours yesterday. just got home from school and im pretty exhausted:( have to work from now until twelve. grrr

Haven't a Clue

I've been studying for the last couple of weeks at this stage. Though it has taken a step up this week...

cson

doria gray wrote:

I did 8 hours saturday, 5 hours sunday and 6 hours yesterday. just got home from school and im pretty exhausted:( have to work from now until twelve. grrr

Know what happens when you run a car in a low gear at high speed? Its bad for the engine, very bad for the engine. Same applies to that study routine and your body. You are gonna burn out by the time June 6th rolls on.

As for the OP's question......the night before will do fine!

Rozabeez

Study til 12? That's a bit mad. I haven't been in school since last Tuesday (sick not mitching!) and got a few things covered, its hard to study when you're not well though, I'm completely worn out!

Selphie

doria gray wrote:

I did 8 hours saturday, 5 hours sunday and 6 hours yesterday. just got home from school and im pretty exhausted:( have to work from now until twelve. grrr

Twelve, really?? Wow, you must be exhausted. I can generally do until ten - eleven when I'm feeling very alert, but anything after that and I can feel my eyes shutting. You need really high points??
I started studying a few weeks ago, and I did really intensive study leading up to the mocks. I'd be screwed if I started any later. I think most people would have started doing something now, no?

Poor Rozabeez, get well soon !

Enemy Of Fate

What the hell?I made this EXACT same topic yesterday and it has no replies!And yet this one has 6+?Madness.

PurpleFistMixer

Your thread title was too long. : )

Rozabeez

Enemy Of Fate wrote:

What the hell?I made this EXACT same topic yesterday and it has no replies!And yet this one has 6+?Madness.

¬_¬ spammer n00b !

Nah I dunno, just didn't read yours, you asked too many questions.

Limerick Dude

Ive been doing bits and pieces with no consistency over the past few weeks but it is this week where it will be full steam ahead from here on in.

Corruptedmorals

Sick of making notes, getting stuck into cramming, exam papers, memorising old notes etc...I refuse to burn myself out, I don't ever go past half 9

ninebeanrows

A few things are running through my head at the moment,

1) I have a glut of exams until the first Tuesday and then a 6 day gap until my last exam the following Monday which is Physics, my question is, what would people think of leaving Physics cram time for those 5 days:D ??

2) How the hell do i study French? the comprehensions can just be so random, how can one prepare for them? And the written questions can be random too! ( i hate French!!)

Biology, Geography, English is straightforward.

Maths is going to be difficult but i feel i am coming on, i will be hitting the proofs in the coming days before tackling Differentiation and Integration.

Haven't a Clue

I'm leaving Physics for a 5 day cramming session as it's my weakest subject by far. The points I get off it probably won't do me any good and I only scraped a pass in ordinary physics in my mocks.

Donald-Duck

Weathercheck wrote:

A few things are running through my head at the moment,

1) I have a glut of exams until the first Tuesday and then a 6 day gap until my last exam the following Monday which is Physics, my question is, what would people think of leaving Physics cram time for those 5 days:D ??

It can easily be done

mp3guy

Time means nothing when it comes to study. Quality & Quantity is all that matters. I started at the beginning of march, but will really be getting into gear tomorrow, the 4 week mark.

adamcp

Weathercheck wrote:

A few things are running through my head at the moment,

1) I have a glut of exams until the first Tuesday and then a 6 day gap until my last exam the following Monday which is Physics, my question is, what would people think of leaving Physics cram time for those 5 days:D ??

2) How the hell do i study French? the comprehensions can just be so random, how can one prepare for them? And the written questions can be random too! ( i hate French!!)

Biology, Geography, English is straightforward.

Maths is going to be difficult but i feel i am coming on, i will be hitting the proofs in the coming days before tackling Differentiation and Integration.

Yeah in the same boat with Chemistry, bot Biology and then like a week or so until Chemistry. I'm going over some chemistry around now

Selphie

Weathercheck wrote:

1) I have a glut of exams until the first Tuesday and then a 6 day gap until my last exam the following Monday which is Physics, my question is, what would people think of leaving Physics cram time for those 5 days:D ??

Yep, I've a week between Bio and Latin. If I concentrate in Latin class atm, the course can be easily revised in a week.

Weathercheck wrote:

2) How the hell do i study French? the comprehensions can just be so random, how can one prepare for them? And the written questions can be random too! ( i hate French!!)

That always annoys me too. I said this somewhere before but just answer them in basic French. Try and learn off some handy phrases and see if you can stick them in somewhere? that might work. Other than that, just keep learning words and phrases!

Enemy Of Fate

I've 4 and a half days between my 2nd last exam (German) and last exam (Economics).Of course that 4 day gap would have to be before the only ****ing exam that barely requires any study on my part.Not only is it the easiest and the smallest subject i'm doing for the leaving, its also the one i'm best at.Hell I could do the exam now without any real preparation whatsoever and get a B3 easily.Whoever desgned the Leaving Cert timetable needs to be shot (business and history on the same day.....What the **** is that about it?!).

Naikon

I started studying.....sometime in a distant future.
I will really plough into it from here on in.

lilmizzme

Yeah, the timetable is messed...I have all my done by the first 6 days...if you did home ec biology and geography you'd be finished by the tuesday!!Im dreading that week, i just phisically won't be up for cramming the night before...maybe some early morning sessions instead! :)And none of my friends are finished with me..Ill be celebrating on my own!!

Corruptedmorals

Yeah, finished June 13th..hist, bio, geog. Geog, bio and home ec is an impossible combination here..

Limerick Dude

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Yeah, finished June 13th..hist, bio, geog. Geog, bio and home ec is an impossible combination here..

Ouch finished exactly 7 days after you, sure you know your guna do well cat!

Assez Bien

I'v wished lately i could study more than i'v ever wished i would win d lotto its jus not in me i'v a memory span of 8 secs, i live in a built up area wher der r kids out playin all evenin, screamin etc so dat jus breaks my concentration 2!! Ah i feel lik cryin....n d late nites studyin is doin nothin 4 my beauty!! ha ha ........ne ideas on how 2 control concentration n actually remember d stuf ur studyin?!

cson

Assez Bien wrote:

I'v wished lately i could study more than i'v ever wished i would win d lotto its jus not in me i'v a memory span of 8 secs, i live in a built up area wher der r kids out playin all evenin, screamin etc so dat jus breaks my concentration 2!! Ah i feel lik cryin....n d late nites studyin is doin nothin 4 my beauty!! ha ha ........ne ideas on how 2 control concentration n actually remember d stuf ur studyin?!

Well you live in preggy park like!

Anyway if its bothering ya that much ya can come out to my house, ta se amuigh faoin tuath.

For the rest of you, just don't bother studying, you can like do the leaving cert 5/6 times if ya want. You'll only push up the points if you do.

Haven't a Clue

cson wrote:

Well you live in preggy park like!

Anyway if its bothering ya that much ya can come out to my house, ta se amuigh faoin tuath.

For the rest of you, just don't bother studying, you can like do the leaving cert 5/6 times if ya want. You'll only push up the points if you do.

Haha. Living in culchieland has its advantages I suppose...

Agri_trust

Im going to start properly today. Im going to write all my English notes today. I'm only going to learn four poets and thats Plath, Bishop , Kavanagh and Frost. Im going to write four personal response essays about their poetry, learn them off and then twist them to what ever way I need to in June. Going to write one general theme/issue essay and one cultural context essay for the comparative and Ive yet to figure out what I'm going to do with Macbeth. All I can think about in English is structure.. haha...

Economics, is a week after all my other exams.. Might just give it all a quick read and then cram like a fecker when Im finished everything else.

Pass French.. Eh not worth bothering with, get a B with no study no bother.

History.. Lord save us... Going to learn the case studys into the ground. With all of Germany and the last section of the dictator ship book. Irish History learn the treaty and civil war and independence off to a song with the whole of the last section and most of Fianna Fail , Cummna na Gealheal. In that nations state book going to learn the last two sections and all of Bismarck and Wilhelm. My dream History exam would be Nazi Propaganda, Setting up a new irish state and medical and scientific advances 1871 to 1920 . With the lock out coming up on the documents.

Maths... Just hoping for a pass, worst teacher in school or maybe the country only two people passed the mocks. Only one person in the class not getting grinds. Hmmm maybe i should study a lot of that.. meh...

Art.. Grand..


Irish.. haha I couldnt give a **** about the poems..

Rozabeez

Assez Bien wrote:

I'v wished lately i could study more than i'v ever wished i would win d lotto its jus not in me i'v a memory span of 8 secs, i live in a built up area wher der r kids out playin all evenin, screamin etc so dat jus breaks my concentration 2!! Ah i feel lik cryin....n d late nites studyin is doin nothin 4 my beauty!! ha ha ........ne ideas on how 2 control concentration n actually remember d stuf ur studyin?!

Any libraries nearby? even college ones?

doria gray

I need 475* at least to get my course, Is anyone starting to get very irritable if they dont have a book in front of them? I know my timetable is pretty harsh but i figure il sleep when im dead. Ive got to give it my best shot.:o Im worried about.. well pretty much everything except business studies.

Rozabeez

I'm finding it hard to study because its not a habit I'm used to, but lately I have been getting stuff done. I'm still very relaxed.

lilmizzme

Rozabeez wrote:

I'm still very relaxed.

Me too...and its scaary!

shazzyshaz

im finished tues 13th!!!
Alot of exams crammed into one week!

shazzyshaz

doria gray wrote:

I need 475* at least to get my course, Is anyone starting to get very irritable if they dont have a book in front of them? I know my timetable is pretty harsh but i figure il sleep when im dead. Ive got to give it my best shot.:o Im worried about.. well pretty much everything except business studies.

doria,,,in the exact same boat!!re: business and 475*. im more worried about english and geog i think! not worried about hmec as i enjoy it!

md99

Assez Bien wrote:

I'v wished lately i could study more than i'v ever wished i would win d lotto its jus not in me i'v a memory span of 8 secs, i live in a built up area wher der r kids out playin all evenin, screamin etc so dat jus breaks my concentration 2!! Ah i feel lik cryin....n d late nites studyin is doin nothin 4 my beauty!! ha ha ........ne ideas on how 2 control concentration n actually remember d stuf ur studyin?!

Stop crying, sympathy while it's great to get will not get you anywhere. How about school study? Libraries? Or... if kids playing is a noise problem, use ear plugs maybe? Surely there is somewhere you can go with more privacy? The other thing is, you may adapt to the noise, and start not to notice it. I go crazy if there's any noise, but my two brothers aren't affected at all... Two other things, one... If late nights are the only time you can study properly, then use them.... You could always study during school in the day when there will probably be less noise outside?

dan719

md99 wrote:

Stop crying, sympathy while it's great to get will not get you anywhere. How about school study? Libraries? Or... if kids playing is a noise problem, use ear plugs maybe? Surely there is somewhere you can go with more privacy? The other thing is, you may adapt to the noise, and start not to notice it. I go crazy if there's any noise, but my two brothers aren't affected at all... Two other things, one... If late nights are the only time you can study properly, then use them.... You could always study during school in the day when there will probably be less noise outside?

I love the way we all get narky(myself included) at around this time of sixth year.;)

shazzyshaz

yeah i use earplugs ASSEZBIEN- at home at the weekend as kids live nearme also!quite alot of them
and the new trend in school seems to be earplugs also-not cos its noisy as such.

dan719-completely agree...im in such a mood and gone reaaaaly quiet for the last couple of weeks and will be till the exams are over!

cson

Lads you really should go and live where she lives before you pass judgement. And our library doubles up as the town creche so its not much use.

ZorbaTehZ

Haven't a Clue wrote:

Haha. Living in culchieland has its advantages I suppose...

Not when there's bloody cows in surrounding fields, that won't STFU

OT, pissed cause I'm the only one doing App. Maths in the year, which means I finish on my owny own - methink'ing about going out getting "fackin-mouldy" after physics - still debating it though.(3 days in-between iirc)

shazzyshaz

take a break from the stress zorbatehz...........go cow tipping.

Assez Bien

cson wrote:

Lads you really should go and live where she lives before you pass judgement. And our library doubles up as the town creche so its not much use.

Shush u will ya you'd swear i lived in d ghetto r somewher!!

Rozabeez

shazzyshaz wrote:

take a break from the stress zorbatehz...........go cow tipping.

But...but then his shoes won't be shiny any more!

shazzyshaz

Rozabeez wrote:

But...but then his shoes won't be shiny any more!

who needs shiny shoes jus now!! theyre always under a desk!!!

Shaner-B

anyone else think that now the courses are long finished that we're better off staying at home 2 study?? 4 sum reason i feel i get more done at home when i can focus on d same subject 4 a couple of hours rather than 40min classes of each subject in school!:rolleyes:

cson

Each to their own I guess.

Some people won't do anything at home hence school is the better option, others will work very well at home. I'd suggest if your having any problems in any areas to go into school and get the teacher to help you in that area.

Marshy

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Yeah, finished June 13th..hist, bio, geog. Geog, bio and home ec is an impossible combination here..

Our maths teacher claims that everyone should chose their subjects based on the LC timetable so they dont have all exams on successive days.

doria gray

Agree totally with Shaner-B, i get much more done at home, at the moment in school there is fundays and sports day and end of year partys, i just cant sit still and enjoy myself when the lc is looming in the background. I come home from a day of wandering zombie-like and fearful from repetitive class to class, come home exhausted and just want to sleep. I can get a really full days work done in the comfort of my own home... and i get a break to watch oprah... what could be any better:rolleyes: