How much do you study?

peachesxcream

I dont think Im doing enough, usually when i go to study i'll do my homework, and one of everything else I have in my bag (eg maths question, irish question..) the only thing I really study is biology...I do the exam papers back to front...but thats the very last thing!
Do people go and learn entire chapters or do full papers when they sit down to study?! Or am i being paranoid??:o

PurpleFistMixer

Oh yes, every time I study I memorise a book.

I do 2 hours of supervised study after school, and do my homework when I get home. At study currently I'm doing things such as: reading the Irish literature (well finished that today), writing out notes on french grammar (ie ye olde subjonctif), exam papers for maths/applied maths, writing out physics definitions, doing out notes on set works for music/the irish music topics...

How you study is a question of personal preference, though. Things will work differently for different people.

KeyLimePie

3 hours a night on top of my homework
but i never do it so it doesn't add up to alot

1huge1

Ya I know the biology is brutal so sorry I chose it.

Still though in terms of study im fairly happy with what im doing but its going to increase more soon.

2hrs after school supervised study followed by 1hr-2hrs when I get home.
Then on the weekend I study from 9-4 in tutorial in limerick with a break from 1-2 with more study on the sunday.

Cost Boy!!

I do all my studying at home I can't bear to be in the same room as someone else when i'm studying. I usually do 5hrs in the evening monday to friday and 8 hours on both saturday and sunday. I find the best way to study, is to revise a topic like heat for physics then pick out every heat question on the exam papers and do them.

daggy

how do you find the energy for 5hours:eek:
? that's impossible. I do homework alone,but that usually takes about 3 hours. Dont need points though!

gosh..

Cost Boy!!

The 5 hours includes homework. I need the points though I'm hoping to do radiation therapy in trinity.

xxGemmaxx

OMG:eek: How do you possibly do that much study, i give up after an hour i get so bored with it! You must really have no time to do anything else. I couldn't hack that, Id feel like I'd have no life. I won't let my leaving control my life, I cant believe how people get so stressed out over it. It really isn't that important, there is plenty of other ways to get around it.

Mark200

Cost Boy!! wrote: »

The 5 hours includes homework. I need the points though I'm hoping to do radiation therapy in trinity.

Well done. I'd never be able to motivate myself enough to do that much.
Hope you get the course.

orangetictac

Just to say to anyone else, you don't HAVE to do that much study. 3 hrs a day is loads, with a bit more on weekends. Obviously now we have to do a bit more......thank god for maths and applied maths(minimal study to be done)

K4t

Are you guys in 6th year yeah?

I'm in 5th and don't really do much.

I read my histoy in bed and do my english homework in bed.

I do my french, maths, business and irish after school and read coming up to tests.

I do a good bit of Economics as its easy and I hope to ace it.

So, about 2hrs an evening for me, including my english essays in bed and reading about Ho Chi Minh and that class beard of his.

peachesxcream

Cost Boy!! wrote: »

I do all my studying at home I can't bear to be in the same room as someone else when i'm studying. I usually do 5hrs in the evening monday to friday and 8 hours on both saturday and sunday. I find the best way to study, is to revise a topic like heat for physics then pick out every heat question on the exam papers and do them.

:O wow fair play, hope u get the course ya want:D
yeah thats what i do for biology, helps to get it in yer head!
Still cant do maths though...got the wee revisewise books but they dont really explain much...awwh it'll be fine!:rolleyes:

Cost Boy!!

xxGemmaxx wrote: »

OMG:eek: How do you possibly do that much study, i give up after an hour i get so bored with it! You must really have no time to do anything else. I couldn't hack that, Id feel like I'd have no life.

Well I have a study timetable made out and I just follow that its not that hard to motivate yourself if you really want to do well at something, and I do have a life apart from studying thanks, i'm just very determined to do well in my leaving and get the points I need.

JC 2K3

xxGemmaxx wrote: »

OMG:eek: How do you possibly do that much study, i give up after an hour i get so bored with it! You must really have no time to do anything else. I couldn't hack that, Id feel like I'd have no life. I won't let my leaving control my life, I cant believe how people get so stressed out over it. It really isn't that important, there is plenty of other ways to get around it.

Lol, that post oozes of jealousy and stress.

And unless you're going out on weekdays, I don't see how that much study would affect your social life in the slightest.

xxGalwayGirlxx

I just can't get my head around this whole studying thing, I try and set time to do it, but i just get bored!
I've hardly any time anyway, because I'm working most days.
At most I mite get an hour done a day, thats if I'm lucky!

My study is done just the day before the exam, and I think that technique must work for me because I got 290points in my mocks.

So I duno everyones different!

JC 2K3

Why are you working during 6th year??

xxGalwayGirlxx

I have always worked, how else would I have money.
I Have to pay rent at home and pay for my car and everything.
I'd hate not to work, I'd hate sponging off my parents!!

JC 2K3

Well, personally I worked summers in 4th and 5th year and that got me through 5th and 6th year ok.

You have to prioritise. You should at least take May and half of June off work, or at least try to cut down the amount of hours you're working if having to work so much is affecting how much you can study.

As for sponging off your parents, I think it's fair enough if you're under 18 and/or in 6th year.

boobookitty

I'm in school 8am-8pm weekdays and everytime I get a free chance I try to read a revision book/textbook as much as I can. I recently found supervised study to be distracting due to my friends talking/whispering and making distractions. Our study starts at 3:55pm and some people start messing around at 4:05pm >_< So I stay outside by the lockers/outside the school to study. My house is always noisy

I also do sat study in school 9-1. Sundays is my day off / do homework at 11pm XD

By the way, do not be judgemental on people who do so much study. There are different methods to studying! For me, I have to write EVERYTHING again and again. It took me 1 hour to write a chapter on Sexual Reproduction in plants (diagrams, experiements etc) where as someone else could have it learned in 30minutes. So if I was to do 5 chapters, that'd be 5 hours study. People are different.

Can anyone help me make a study timetable?
I'm doing: Art, History, Bio, French, Eng, Irish and Maths.

I don't know whether to do the easier stuff first (english) and the hard stuff last (history) or vice versa?

I usually find myself only studying bio, history and irish >_<

Thanks for the help.

mozil

Ah **** haven started yet ha ha

PurpleFistMixer

Do the harder stuff first, while you still have energy.

gaybitch

May is the month I start studying. I promise.


Getting down and starting is the hardest, once you're down it's fine and you just power away. I do listen to my iPod though.

Fad

i have a plan, summer exams in two weeks, catch up this week, study the entire next week and done !


next year i ll try and work from the begining though, i want quite high points

xxGalwayGirlxx

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Well, personally I worked summers in 4th and 5th year and that got me through 5th and 6th year ok.

You have to prioritise. You should at least take May and half of June off work, or at least try to cut down the amount of hours you're working if having to work so much is affecting how much you can study.

As for sponging off your parents, I think it's fair enough if you're under 18 and/or in 6th year.

Ya I'm trying now to ask for time off, I'm going to take the last 2weeks in may and June off of course!! I have to cop on now!
Well Ive stopped goin out at the weekends so I can try and study instead!!
This weekend, I've done loads of study so i'm so proud of myself, and I'm not going to go to school anymore either so I can spend that time studying.

Mikeyt086

How does Cost Boy do that much study? He needs big points so he puts the work in.

I need 300 points to do what i want, where i want. And without studying i got 275 in the mocks. I do 3 hours supervised study Monday to Friday, including homework and messing about, nothing on Friday, nothing on Saturday and then 3 hours on Sunday.

I will seriously up my workload in the remaining weeks though. But one thing i wont do is panic.

An Citeog

xxGalwayGirlxx wrote: »

Ya I'm trying now to ask for time off, I'm going to take the last 2weeks in may and June off of course!! I have to cop on now!
Well Ive stopped goin out at the weekends so I can try and study instead!!
This weekend, I've done loads of study so i'm so proud of myself, and I'm not going to go to school anymore either so I can spend that time studying.

I really hope you're taking the piss about the bolded bit. This is the time when everything you do in class is 100% focused on the exams. Not going and staying at home to "study" defeats the purpose imo. Go to school, keep an open mind and give it your full attention and you'll definitely reap the rewards. I'd give up the job now until after the LC aswell. It's only a month and a half and it'll really help you in the end. Best of luck anyway.

Cokehead Mother

I'm not going in either. This way I can study in a way that suits me, and not one devised by a teacher to suit 20 people as best as possible. Plus I don't have to waste time on subjects I'm good at.

JC 2K3

I don't see the point in staying home from school. You might be missing out on something useful, and it's not like if you stay home from school you're going to be studying for 9 hours a day or anything. I mean, if you finish school at 4, you still have a lot of time left in the day to study.

In my experience, no one I know who stayed home for the last few weeks of school did any better than I expected them to, and no one who got high points stayed home from school during this period.

Peleus

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

How does Cost Boy do that much study? He needs big points so he puts the work in.

Cost Boy's a she. (and don't ask about her username) lol

Mikeyt086

Peleus wrote: »

Cost Boy's a she. (and don't ask about her username) lol

surely you can forgive that mistake. Thats like my user name being "086 girl".

The Walsho

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

surely you can forgive that mistake. Thats like my user name being "086 girl".

Ah see, there was a big brouhaha about this username on another thread.

Finally, a chance to use the word 'brouhaha'.

JC 2K3

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

surely you can forgive that mistake. Thats like my user name being "086 girl".

Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.

Badabing

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.

Ah yeah you give advice and you mock:pac: Tank god there are people like you on forums like this:rolleyes: I suggest that you stop the childish digs and help other posters or else stay very quiet.

JC 2K3

It's ok, I'm on my laptop, so the keys don't make very much noise.

Cost Boy!!

xxGalwayGirlxx wrote: »

I'm not going to go to school anymore either so I can spend that time studying.

I think its a good idea only if you have all your courses finished, I'd like to stay at home from now on to study but I dont want to miss maths so I have to go in but at least we're finished in 2 weeks.

Peleus

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Ah now, surely it's obvious that it is because of what her friend calls her boyfriend.

lol

bazaamo

We have nothing to lose and absolutely everything to gain!!!!!!:)

cHaTbOx

JC 2K3 wrote: »

I don't see the point in staying home from school. You might be missing out on something useful, and it's not like if you stay home from school you're going to be studying for 9 hours a day or anything. I mean, if you finish school at 4, you still have a lot of time left in the day to study.

In my experience, no one I know who stayed home for the last few weeks of school did any better than I expected them to, and no one who got high points stayed home from school during this period.

Im staying at home but im doing 10 hours a day.I was doing 8 hours after school but it was leaving me wrecked and because the courses are finished my way of studying is suited to 3 hour block periods were i can do a past paper in each subject.If you are motivated you will do the work,if you are staying home because everybody else is you wont get ANY work done.Also,anyone i know who has done this and had this attidude got very high points.Luckily,im just looking for 400 points and with the studying im putting in i hope ill get a little more.

Noodleworm

I absolutely detest study but that's probably a combination of my total lack of motivation and ADD.
I think I know now that I'm not going to get those 410 points I wanted...
It wouldn't be so bad if I was off socialising, but I spend most my time in my house trying to study! I have a brain like a sieve...

titan18

I do my homework and do about an hour extra study at the most.Usually get fed up.I only need 400 points,providing it doesnt go up,and I got 430 in the pre with only the night before spent studying

bazaamo

Try doing 15hr days of study for 600pts!Than you'll know how brutal study can be!

mattfender

Most of my study time is spent looking out the window ranting at boy racers..
or playing guitar, or typing this right now..
Only need two honours for my course so its making me kinda lazy when I know I should be studying hard!! ARGGHH! :pac: Only got 225 or something in mocks so I hope for somewhere mid 300's for the real thing!!

cHaTbOx

mattfender wrote: »

Most of my study time is spent looking out the window ranting at boy racers..
or playing guitar, or typing this right now..
Only need two honours for my course so its making me kinda lazy when I know I should be studying hard!! ARGGHH! :pac: Only got 225 or something in mocks so I hope for somewhere mid 300's for the real thing!!

Yeah i was along your train of thought, I only need mid-300s with two honours(doing 6 higher) but about a month ago it hit me that i dont want to do this again next year and will i ever look back and think i could have done better.At the moment i think of it like this, you have a month and a half to do your best and hopefully it's good enough.

The amount of study you put in all depends on what you want to get and what you think you will get.If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.Basically you get what you put in.

Cokehead Mother

random chatbox wrote: »

If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.

wtf?

cHaTbOx

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

wtf?

look up to bazzamo

orangetictac

bazzamo???? Thats not healthy, or is it? i dunno, if you can do it fair play
Have you been doing that much all year?
I was thinking about 600 pts but i only need 465, but still think i ave a chance if i do 5 or so hrs on days off(soon everday) and a bit more startin next wednesday.

mattfender

random chatbox wrote: »

Yeah i was along your train of thought, I only need mid-300s with two honours(doing 6 higher) but about a month ago it hit me that i dont want to do this again next year and will i ever look back and think i could have done better.At the moment i think of it like this, you have a month and a half to do your best and hopefully it's good enough.

The amount of study you put in all depends on what you want to get and what you think you will get.If you need to get 600 you will do 15 hours a day if you think you will get less.If you need mid-300 you will do 3-4 or so hours a day if you think youll get less.Basically you get what you put in.

I'm only doing 3 higher now so basically honours should be in music and geog.
Thank god I dont need points or i'd be screwed then!!! Yeah the whole idea of repeating doesnt sound nice..especially after getting an stomach ulcer i dont wanna get another next year!!
I'n being really lazy these days but its not until closer to exams I really start getting into it, thats what happened for mocks...time to wake up matt:eek: hehe!!

boobookitty

bazaamo wrote: »

Try doing 15hr days of study for 600pts!Than you'll know how brutal study can be!

Good luck in your study. I hope the work pays off.

May I ask how you study subjects like say English & Irish? Apart from the obvious "do the exam papers".

Do you write everything out or are you able to read and retain? :P

Casserine

I'd say the best piece of advice to give anyone is not to freak out and tailor their own study routine in response to this thread. If you're totally slacking off and haven't done a pip, well then that's a different story, but if you feel you're doing what works for you, then just keep it up.

For some people, studying 6 hours a day is necessary, for others it isn't. I usually do 4 hours Monday-Thursday, Irsh grinds on Friday and a few hours at the weekend. I should do more at weekends, I know, but I'm always exhausted after the school week! I'll up that from now on, though. With this amount, I got 520 in the Mocks, and I'll probably only need mid 400s. Different strokes for different folks.

Random question: I always read about people lamenting the fact they had to give up hobbies during the LC. Not necessarily sport, which everyone encourages anyway, but stuff like watching films, reading etc. I get through about 2 or 3 non-school books a week and watch films regularly. I didn't find it necessary to give up these - should I have?

PurpleFistMixer

Hobbies are necessary to stop going insane, I think. If you do nothing but schoolwork, the LC consumes your life and turns into a lumbering, terrifying monster. Doing other things is an enjoyable distraction which allows you to realise that the LC isn't the be all and end all of the world.
Of course, being in sixth year has meant I can't stay up until the middle of the night every night playing computer games, because I would die of the exhaustion.

Jayeire

Totally agree with the mod above ^
Never forget that there is indeed life after the leaving.. A whole summer of relaxation
Nothing beats the feeling of sealing up the answer booklet of your last LC exam and handing it to the supervisor
Roll on Summer
Put in the effort now , its never too late!!