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Niamh-17 · 12-09-2008 5:20pm #1

How long are you spending roughly each evening on study and homework?

I would say it usually takes me about 2 hours to 2 and a half hours on my homework, then an extra hour revising back over 5th year work - i do one subject a night.

Just interesting to hearing how other fellow leavin certs are getting on in this early stage?

K4t · 12-09-2008 5:26pm

I just do my homework which takes around 2-3 hours on average. Doing history (while having spent half of last year just doing the bloody documents question) kind of rules out any study time for other subjects :pac:

I'll get down to the study during and after hallo'ween :eek:

Niamh-17 · 12-09-2008 5:32pm

There seems to be an awful lot of work involved in History?
There isnt any leaving cert history in our school as only one person wanted to take it, but from what i have been reading on here, it seems quite a tough subject?!

K4t · 12-09-2008 5:44pm

Niamh-17 wrote: »

There seems to be an awful lot of work involved in History?
There isnt any leaving cert history in our school as only one person wanted to take it, but from what i have been reading on here, it seems quite a tough subject?!

You'd be right in that assumption considering there are four books (each over 200 pages long) to be studied, with many different case studies in each, and on top of all that we have to do a reasrch project aswell. It's not too bad if you like history, which I do.

Fad · 12-09-2008 9:46pm

Depends Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday i have nightstudy so i get about 4 hours done, havent really found a routine for other days yet. I have just evening study on Friday so i ll try and just get my homework done and leave it at that. (I am struggling to type this coherently, i should sleep soon

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GA361 · 12-09-2008 10:24pm

I do about two hours on homework on weekdays(average)

Then another 45 mins study on a subject.Then I do another 45 mins on a dif subject.History and maths are too damn time consuming!

phasers · 13-09-2008 8:15am

I just do my homework right now...

but I'll be starting night study fairly soon so I'll be doing about 3 hours a night then.

Piste · 13-09-2008 11:57am

I do about 2 hours of homework a night. Haven't really started any proper study though!

LivingDeadGirl · 13-09-2008 12:22pm

Piste wrote: »

I do about 2 hours of homework a night. Haven't really started any proper study though!

+1

Gavin "shels" · 13-09-2008 1:22pm

Bout 2 hours homework myself. Not going to start study for a month I'd say (at least after my 18th), just getting Irish and French sorted between now and then all my oral stuff, etc...

Davidius · 13-09-2008 9:13pm

About 2 hours worth of homework and have yet to do anything on top of that.

I am not going to like the lack of free time I'll have during this year. Not at all.

K-Bowie · 13-09-2008 10:14pm

Around 3-4 hours a night 1hour on Maths and 1hour on Physics and I break the other subjects up, thats study not homework btw ^^

postalservice · 14-09-2008 12:05am

!!!!!!
I did the LC last year.
How do you have time to do ANY study at this time of the year?

Well done though.:pac:

crunchycorner · 14-09-2008 7:19pm

homework is taking about 3 hours atm
studying about half an hour on top of that for biology tests and that....
gonna start revising 5th year stuff this week. (hopefully)

how d'ye make yourselves study and do homework? Somedays i dread it and leave till really late:( that has to stop this week!

How much of the 5th year stuff d'ye think ye will have revised for the x-mas tests?

Piste · 14-09-2008 8:00pm

Yeah I tend to leave mine to tile last minute too.

Like this week I built two bookcases to put off doing homework, but ended up having to stay late to do it

ConmanTheKiller · 14-09-2008 8:00pm

It takes about 3 hours to do my homework (including technical drawing) so I really dont have the willpower to do any more study, hopefully i`ll start in a few weeks when i start night study.

K-Bowie · 14-09-2008 9:09pm

crunchycorner wrote: »

homework is taking about 3 hours atm
studying about half an hour on top of that for biology tests and that....
gonna start revising 5th year stuff this week. (hopefully)

how d'ye make yourselves study and do homework? Somedays i dread it and leave till really late:( that has to stop this week!

How much of the 5th year stuff d'ye think ye will have revised for the x-mas tests?

I make myself study that length of time by thinking what I will be doing in the Uni of my choice and everything that comes with it, new friends, good laughs and generally a new beginning for me its a great motivator some of the simplst things such as watching friends go off to college etc...

By X-Mas I will have revised the whole Physics course and all but theroms in Maths, other subjects like Business and English I'm pritty good at so I have already read over everything and made sure I understood everything.

K-Bowie · 14-09-2008 9:10pm

ConmanTheKiller wrote: »

It takes about 3 hours to do my homework (including technical drawing) so I really dont have the willpower to do any more study, hopefully i`ll start in a few weeks when i start night study.

At the moment thats a pritty good start tbh atleast you do your homework and night study is great aslong as you don't talk to your friends the whole time your there!

Fad · 14-09-2008 9:38pm

GARGH I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO FOR TOMORROW ARGH.

LC Gaeilge reading comprehensions take freakin ages!

From now on i do my homework the day i get it.

Eternaldream · 14-09-2008 9:51pm

Fad wrote: »

GARGH I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO FOR TOMORROW ARGH.

LC Gaeilge reading comprehensions take freakin ages!

From now on i do my homework the day i get it.

lol you should really stop replying on threads about how long its taking you to do your homework and study, and get and do your homework!

:p

lilmissprincess · 14-09-2008 11:29pm

French Comprehensions should really die.
I have tomorrow off school.
I'm spending it copying out Economics Notes and learning as I do, doing most of a four page essay on Elisabeth Bishop, Doing a hell of a lot of history and whatever else is in my bag.
I did an hour of Economics this morning. I tend to get up on Sundays and study to make up for not doing anything Saturday.
Evening Study for two hours after school is the best thing ever

Fad · 14-09-2008 11:29pm

Eternaldream wrote: »

lol you should really stop replying on threads about how long its taking you to do your homework and study, and get and do your homework! :p

At that stage i had given up, i was sick all weekend and thats my excuse and im sticking to it

*

*I was in fact sick, but too sick to do any work? questionable.

Pegmin · 15-09-2008 7:35pm

Since I've started 5th year,I've really been doing the bare minumum...homework roughly takes about nearly 2 hours.

Me no like 5th year....:(

phasers · 15-09-2008 7:56pm

My mam offered to write me a note along the lines of "due to eyesight problems, *phasers* will be unable to do her homework for ten days whilst awaiting the delivery of her glasses."

I'm really thinking of taking her up on it :pac:

degausserxo · 15-09-2008 8:35pm

I've started doing an exam paper a night. Hopefully it'll be more in a coupla weeks!

Niamh-17 · 16-09-2008 4:55pm

An exam paper a night? woah fair play!

Have been getting a good bit of homework these nights......essays are a killer! Though they are mostly for weekends. We get Irish words to learn everynight.....some nights we get somthing like 65 words to learn for the next day for a spelling test.....that takes up a good bit of time.

In Home Ec we are moving on to new material but once a week we get a test in 5th year stuff, today it was proteins, next week Carbohydrates..which i think is a good idea, and we get a lot more done.

Maths test tomorrow though....uh oh...

Piste · 16-09-2008 4:58pm

Phasers is a girl?!

Maths takes me aaaaaages to do, last night we had 7 questions to do (from book, not exam questions!) and I swear the last few took me half an hour each. It was frustrating as each question has loads of little bits to it and I kept getting tiny bits wrong early on which made my final answer totally wrong and made me very frustrated! Then by the time maths is out of the way I'm drained and have lost the will to work.

I've started using online dictionaries for French and German instead of paper dictionaries because it takes so much less time looking up words. Unfortunately I usually just end up on boards for ages totally cancelling out any time I may have saved.

PurpleFistMixer · 16-09-2008 5:03pm

The first few weeks back of 6th year were absolutely killer for me. So ridiculously much homework. Couldn't even think about studying. It got less as the year went on though, definitely. So don't panic. : p

K4t · 16-09-2008 5:03pm

Piste wrote: »

I've started using online dictionaries for French and German instead of paper dictionaries because it takes so much less time looking up words.

Oh dear.

Piste · 16-09-2008 5:04pm

Yep. Started my German homewok full of good intentions an hour and a half ago >.<

K4t · 16-09-2008 5:09pm

Piste wrote: »

Yep. Started my German homewok full of good intentions an hour and a half ago >.<

I love my french dictionary. It's quite old and battered but it's got character. I can't imagine my school life without it, not necessarily for looking up words, but more the companionship and that something you can look to when you're feeling down that will raise your spirits.

Make sure you don't use the online translators though Piste:

phasers · 16-09-2008 5:10pm

Piste wrote: »

Phasers is a girl?!

:pac: I could say the same about you!

K4t · 16-09-2008 5:10pm

Girls eh?

how you doin :cool:

Davidius · 16-09-2008 6:22pm

There are no girls on the internet, why doesn't anybody understand that?

PurpleFistMixer · 16-09-2008 6:40pm

Yup we're all she-men. On a good day.

Piste · 16-09-2008 8:18pm

K4t wrote: »

I love my french dictionary. It's quite old and battered but it's got character. I can't imagine my school life without it, not necessarily for looking up words, but more the companionship and that something you can look to when you're feeling down that will raise your spirits.

Make sure you don't use the online translators though Piste:

Heh yeah online translators are sooo dodgy, my friend used one last year instead of doing her French homework adn the things they came out with!

I use a really good site called www.wordreference.com which does English-French, French-English and German-English, English-German.

Fad · 16-09-2008 10:16pm

Piste wrote: »

I've started using online dictionaries for French and German instead of paper dictionaries because it takes so much less time looking up words. Unfortunately I usually just end up on boards for ages totally cancelling out any time I may have saved.

The Irish one is horrendous!

(and yes no matter how good youre intention is, it always descends into mindless wandering of the interner, hell not even the internet, we have Physics last class on a friday in one of the computer rooms, and i just play solitare rather than even try and pay attention)

Aisling(",) · 16-09-2008 11:21pm

i do about 2 hours and even by the end of it im compleatly stir crazy!

spent 6 hours on homework one day.damn near killed me

i generally dont spend long on my work.

did my first draft of my history topic in 2 hours and got a c on it and did a b grade honoros english essay on adrienne rich in an hour.

PurpleFistMixer · 17-09-2008 1:24am

Fad wrote: »

The Irish one is horrendous!

www.focal.ie is a legend. LEGEND. Not too great for your every-day words though.

Fad · 17-09-2008 3:33pm

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

www.focal.ie is a legend. LEGEND. Not too great for your every-day words though.

It certainly seems to be, i was using a different one

K4t · 17-09-2008 4:50pm

My new french teacher claims that most french people don't actually use proper grammar, so I'd be quite vary of using an online translator. :pac:

e.g. 'I am well' translates as 'Je suis bien' instead of 'Je vais bien'. The translators just put words together instead of the correct grammar or phrasing.

blue-army · 17-09-2008 5:45pm

K4t wrote: »

My new french teacher claims that most french people don't actually use proper grammar, so I'd be quite vary of using an online translator. :pac:

e.g. 'I am well' translates as 'Je suis bien' instead of 'Je vais bien'. The translators just put words together instead of the correct grammar or phrasing.

http://imtranslator.com/ Not this website! It's very accurate to be fair. I used it a lot last year instead of my dictionary. It's good for writing complicated paragraphs to learn off for the oral exam. My teacher looked over everything and found very little, if any, mistakes. I got a B2 in the end!:o

Fad · 17-09-2008 7:21pm

Ive also decided that trying to type up notes is futile, damn you boards*

*boards=my complete lack of willpower.

cautioner · 11-10-2008 11:07pm

Reading about people doing an exam paper a night is strangely motivating.

Reeeeally must start kicking revision ass next week *sigh*

Fresh Breeze · 12-10-2008 1:06am

4 weeks into the LC and don't have much done.
I really really need to start doing something.

I should do it. I did all the partying and stuff last year. It'll be worth it now, to study, get the points I want for the course in college.

Yeah, starting Monday, I'll do the whole "one exam paper a night". Or I prefer choosing a topic per night, say the heart in biology and going through all the exam papers and answer every question on it. Helps you see the layout of question, similarities etc.

insinkerator · 12-10-2008 12:04pm

At this stage last year when i was doing 6th year, i hadnt started studying at all. I was working about 25 hours a week too, so i barely did my homework.

molly_dolly · 12-10-2008 5:48pm

Homework is kinda like sudying for me at the moment. At the end of each day I go through what we did that day so that when I get homework on that topic I can do it without the book/notes to test myself. In all this takes up to four hours (revision of that days work and new homework).

Obviously now, I'm taking a break despite the French reading comprehension just waiting to be done...
(woo first post!)

Piste · 12-10-2008 10:31pm

I had such good intentions for this week, spend all of yesterday making a cake and all of today feeling sorry for myself and being hungover.

Fad · 12-10-2008 10:36pm

Piste wrote: »

All of today feeling sorry for myself and being hungover.

Ditto sadly, next weekend, i dont think i ll drink as i really still dont feel 100% even after almost an entire day :S

Was sooooo worth it though, i have so much to blackmail one of my friends with now

, i freely admit that at times i can be a bit of a cúnt :P

Spent all weekend, saying yeah i ll do work when im finished here, OH WAIT Miami Ink is on, i ll watch that then do some work, etc etc. Irish essay due on tuesday and ive done nothing so far! :pac: tomorrow night shall be fun*

*Well i have Mogwai as a soundtrack to my latenight work, so it wont be too bad i hope.

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