Study

conormurphy

I done relatively well in the Mocks with only night before study (4 A's, 3 B's, 2 C's, 1 D, 1 E) The D was in one of my best subjects, German, but our paper was terribly hard, our teacher said that there is no chance it will be that hard in June. Anyway, if I start studying now for 2 and a half hours a night, will I be ok?

Thanks for any replies

spurious

2 and a half hours a night just on German?

Ask your teacher where you lost the marks on your mock. Look at the paper honestly - see which answers you could have improved on, see which questions you left out or did not complete (this is actually the main reason for poor JC marks, not 'not knowing stuff').

Re-do the questions you did badly. Ask your teacher to mark them or re-mark them yourself. Make sure you know exactly what the optional parts of the paper are and familiarise yourself with papers from the last few years.

The Junior Cert. as an assessment tool is DESIGNED for candidates to do as well as possible. The way questions are set and marked maximises marks. This is to encourage students. It is not the same when you get to Leaving Cert., but don't worry about that now. You will be fine.

conormurphy

No I mean for every subject will 2 and a half a night be ok? German I will have learned in about 5 hours if I do it properly, something i didnt do for the mocks

PurpleFistMixer

The success of your study depends on how you study, rather than for how long. You could easily study for 2 and a half hours a night and achieve nothing, yet feel like you're doing wonderfully, then be disappointed with your results.

It also depends on how well you want to do. What you could do is take each of your subjects, assess what you don't know/need to brush up on, and make out a timetable for learning these things from now until the exams. Remember you don't need to know everything exactly word for word off by heart, so don't set yourself ridiculous targets that you can't achieve. You'll know yourself how long it'll take to do tasks (ie, "Revise the French Revolution"), so from then you'll see how many hours.

Though to be honest, 2 and a half hours a night seems almost excessive to me, I'd estimate I'm doing 3ish hours a night, and I'm doing my Leaving Cert.
That said, it all depends on the person and their ability/how the want to do, etc.
I just say, don't kill yourself with the studying. Learning a good study ethic is a useful thing to gain from the Junior Cert, but don't stress yourself out by studying all the time.

highlydebased

we should make a "common misconceptions about the junior cert and study" thread...

PurpleFistMixer

Then the board would be redundant. : p

Jay P

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

...Though to be honest, 2 and a half hours a night seems almost excessive to me, I'd estimate I'm doing 3ish hours a night, and I'm doing my Leaving Cert...

I don't think it is too much, when i was in third year, I went to study for three hours most nights and I did fairly well in my JC. I wasn't always doing work in those three hours, I doubt the OP would be either, but it's still very worthwhile because even if you're glazing over your books, notes, etc., it's going to be that bit easier when you come around to learning it. Also, I did some of the earlier exam papers, which definately helped, especially for maths and french.