Easter Study

zonEEE

So hows everyones study going? Mine has yet to start What type of a plan/timetable are you using?

Hopefully mine from tomorrow will be

9.00-9.45 subject
10.00-10.45 subject
11.15-12.45 subject
1.00 -1.45 subject
2.45- 3.30 subject
3.45-4.30 subject

Taking 15 mins in between each subject and then a half hour of a brake and a hour for lunch.

Studying each subject for about 45mins.

Gavin "shels"

Going from 2.30 - 6.30, doing 3 days of Geography and 3 days of Business, a day of Maths (which I've done), a day of English, 2 days of Physics, a day of Irish and a day of French.

Only subject I've been doing enough in up until Easter was Physics, so going to focus a bit more on Geography and Business (both Higher level) to try moving up a few grades. Other subjects I'm doing ordinary in apart from English but I'm ok with that, that's a "night before the exam" study idea.:cool:

zonEEE

Gavin shels wrote: »

Going from 2.30 - 6.30, doing 3 days of Geography and 3 days of Business, a day of Maths (which I've done), a day of English, 2 days of Physics, a day of Irish and a day of French.

Only subject I've been doing enough in up until Easter was Physics, so going to focus a bit more on Geography and Business (both Higher level) to try moving up a few grades. Other subjects I'm doing ordinary in apart from English but I'm ok with that, that's a "night before the exam" study idea.:cool:

Ya geography and business do take a lot of study with all the content in them. It was only after the mocks our business class learned how to structure answers and actually find out how much you need to write!

Gavin "shels"

strongr wrote: »

Ya geography and business do take a lot of study with all the content in them. It was only after the mocks our business class learned how to structure answers and actually find out how much you need to write!

Ye they do, but they're pretty handy to get high marks in though. Both have things you know will come up, the ABQ (which the same questions always come up), Waterfalls, and if your doing Global Interdepence in Geog Desertification and Global Warming are nearly always a defo.

laura!

strongr wrote: »

So hows everyones study going? Mine has yet to start What type of a plan/timetable are you using?

Hopefully mine from tomorrow will be

9.00-9.45 subject
10.00-10.45 subject
11.15-12.45 subject
1.00 -1.45 subject
2.45- 3.30 subject
3.45-4.30 subject

Taking 15 mins in between each subject and then a half hour of a brake and a hour for lunch.

Studying each subject for about 45mins.

i'm definately going to follow this one you have. seems good!

Jack Sheehan

I haven't really got a plan, I've never been good with that sort of thing. I'm just trying to get in enough of everything. 4 hours a day or so.

Futurism

strongr wrote: »

Ya geography and business do take a lot of study with all the content in them. It was only after the mocks our business class learned how to structure answers and actually find out how much you need to write!

Still haven't learned how to structure answers properly and don't have a teacher anymore.

Did a few hours yesterday - still feel as though I got nothing done.

LivingDeadGirl

I'm doing a revision course this week but I'll have to make out a study plan for next week. No idea how tbh, I've always been rubbish at this kinda thing(or basically anything to do with studying ). I reckon I'll need longer time periods per subject than others though, it takes me a while to settle into things and if I take a break after 40-45 minutes I probbaly won't go back to it! Maybe an hour/hour and a half....

candlegrease

80 hours scheduled for easter. 17 done already

.:FuZion:.

9 - 10: Wake up
10 - 12: Subject / 2
12 - 1: TV
1 - 3: Subject / 2
3 - 6: Go out
6 - 7: Subject
7:30 - 8:30: Subject
Go out for the night. :rolleyes: Just in. :pac:

Pigwidgeon

i've been doing mainly homework this week, a subject a day, usually takes me 2 hours then study an hour on top of that, then midway through next week when i'm finished my homework, just study from then.

GaryB

Found it really hard to get into things but think i'm back into the swing of it now...did an entire Geography paper today, following the marking scheme requirements to the letter...all the feckin writing!

xOxSinéadxOx

candlegrease wrote: »

80 hours scheduled for easter. 17 done already

dear god.

maybe I should make a plan. I just can't study. I did half an hour of maths yesterday and that's all I've done so far. and it was stuff I'm able to do already

madnesspersues

ive planned 120 hours for easter. 10 hours a day! I know ive like gone over the top but plan big and like you'll study for longer. if i get 8 hours a day done then i'd be happy. i did 9 yday and like 6 today ! lol i feel like such a nerd hahahah first time in my life!

QueenOfLeon

O god yere all making me feel bad! I think iv done about 2-3 hours the last 3 days, but that hasnt been studying, its all the homework weve been given for easter! Im planning to spend 1 day on each subject this week to do the homework, and then next week start studying, but im so bad at planning it

Piste

I made a plan the weeknd before the Easter holidays. Oh what a magnificent plan it was. I looked at it and though "this is a study plan worthy of a king, surely the Leaving Cert will fall like a house of cards after this study plan!"

I was halfway thruogh the first day when I realised what a fool I was when I wrote up the plan. I greatly underestimated how long it would take to study things (I thought that I could do DNA and RNA, Genetic Crosses, Variation and Evolution and the rest of the genetics chapters in one hours. ONE HOUR!)

So now I'm basically a day or two behind even with my 7 or so hours of study each day. At least I know I have my work cut out for me for when I go back, but jaysus I'm stating to feel like I've very quickly running out of time >.<

Back Prince

8 to 12 questions from papers
12 to 3 chill the **** out
3 to 5 study then chill maybe another hour in night-time

Its all gay but i failed 3 mocks my business teacher is really a history teacher and we sit there talkin bout liverpool and 1916. Then my german teacher teaches us for ten minutes gives us the same homework every night more concerned with his first years. Then irish higher but i failed on purpose so she would let me drop to ordinary. So need to do everything i can

Ted Bundy

piste i feel the exact same......
i made out a list of things to do and sure enough 3 days in, im waaaay behind....i always underestimate the time it takes to cover things:(

Pigwidgeon

so far today I've done an english paper 1.
will do more study in a while.. my brain is fried right now, I didn't pick the paper with the best comprehensions to do, but that's better practise than doing one with ones i find easy, not gonna be able to pick them on the day.

Jack Sheehan

I really should do something but I'm drastically hungover.

Killaqueen!!!

Haven't started yet and il be away this weekend Hope i get going next week. I dont know how people study its so hard..

marshmallow

Ted Bundy wrote: »

piste i feel the exact same......
i made out a list of things to do and sure enough 3 days in, im waaaay behind....i always underestimate the time it takes to cover things:(

same here!

whadabouchasir

Does anyone else find themselves doing very little study for the subjects that they don't like?

SarcasticFairy

Piste wrote: »

At least I know I have my work cut out for me for when I go back, but jaysus I'm stating to feel like I've very quickly running out of time >.<

This frightens me more than anything. I was all about the 'ah sure, we've looooads of time yet'. What happened all this time? Where did it go? I need it back thank you please!

whadabouchasir wrote: »

Does anyone else find themselves doing very little study for the subjects that they don't like?

Yes. I can't bring myself to even look at Business or French. I just can't. And funnily enough, these are the two which need most work. I know this, but I still can't open the books.

english4490

whadabouchasir wrote: »

Does anyone else find themselves doing very little study for the subjects that they don't like?

ya all the subjects i like are done, and then physics (bain of my life) is just forgotten about even though its the thing i need to work at most!:eek:

Jack Sheehan

I have a page with all the subjects I'm doing. Whenever I do a half hour at one, I put a red tick. So far Maths has 15+ and English has one!

Gavin "shels"

So far done notes on all the chapters in Geography (minus half the regions), 10 maths past paper questions, an English comparative. So far I'm on track to doing what I had planned, I don't buy into all this "I'll do 10 hours" trollocks, it's better to set goals and achieve them in whatever amount of time you can and want, works for me anywho.

K4t

I've done nothing. I'll cram next week. It's the only way I remember this ****e anyway.

jefreywithonef

Such a bad time to get back into Grand Theft Auto III.

Chanandler Bong

Done sweet FA this week, will do more next week

essentialfrench

Start with the subject you're having difficulties with - that way - once you have that done, theres a real sense of accomplishment! Students always leave their weakest subject til the end of their study - and never get to it! At the start of your day - you're at your best so you're more focused. Finish your study day with the subject you're most comfortable with. You're tired at this point and this subject can get away with less attention. Just an idea....:) natasha, cork

dermo1990

have been doing about 5 or 6 hours a day. The sooner June is over with the better

flag123

I tell yous the best way to get your study done. This is the way i do it..
Wake up early around 9 or 10, do your hardest subject for around an hour or half an hour..get that over with and continue this cycle until 7 or 8 when your finished taking breaks every half hour..
Remember that there is no point making out lists or plans. The best way is to look at the contents page and see what you know and what you don't know!..
Take breaks...but also get the work done
:D:D

Gavin "shels"

flag123 wrote: »

The best way is to look at the contents page and see what you know and what you don't know!..

I disagree tbh, what you think you know and what you actually know are two completely different things. You should really go over everything to refresh your head imo.

xOxSinéadxOx

I just got a new laptop. damn! will be doing nothing

eVeNtInE

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manutd4life

i've done quite a bit of study but i have been putting off english,german and irish (all at higher level).i'm starting to get into business now.

i dont have a plan at all.i'm quite disorganised.i practically just take a random book and read it.i would be studying for about 2 hours every day but its not really intense study.i am aiming for at least 450 (if i get less than that my ma siad shes kicking me out of the house lol)

p1akuw47h5r3it

I study from 2 to either 5 or 6.

Always start with Bio. and then whatever I feel like doin

xOxSinéadxOx

eVeNtInE wrote: »

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yes but I also really want to catch up on gossip girl

ooPabsoo

ah its so hard to study,i just get distracted so easily and then just go out or something! i did good in the mocks...like i got the course i want grrrrrrrrrrr i hate studying,and then theres people who "say" they study for 8 hours a day! thats crazy

jefreywithonef

ooPabsoo wrote: »

thats crazy

That's discipline.

Get rid of all distractions and make out a timetable (an hour for each subject on a specific area) and stick to it. Works for me.

ooPabsoo

for 8 hours? i do have a life yano;)

flag123

ooPabsoo wrote: »

for 8 hours? i do have a life yano;)

Depends on what your looking to do...If you only need from 300-400, that kind of studying is unnecessary maybe 2 or 3 hours a day, Points above that you might need to be keeping along those tracks..

leesmom

im looking for 400 well depending on how much the points for nursing increase and i study about 6 hours a day sometimes more, i have been out of school for a few years though so maybe all you guys are more up to date with remembering what youve done last year and stuff

QueenOfLeon

So, overall, i think i did about 44ish hours over the easter.....whats really pissing me off is that i spent 25 hours on maths :mad: and that was only on homework she gave us, exam paper questions. I didnt even do all the ones we were supposed to, i just got so sick of spending all my time at it about another 10 was on homework given in the other subjects, leaving me with only about 9 hours study done in the 2 weeks...f*** sake :mad:

postalservice

Homework is study.

Like, what study would you be doing for maths anyway?
Just proofs and exam papers.

At this stage the homework is fairly exam focused, possible questions nd stuff.

Sure ye wont be gettin much more homework from now on anyways:D

QueenOfLeon

Ya i suppose. Just mad that it took up more than half of my study time, and tbh, its probably the subject that im fairly sorted for, compared to the rest :mad:

Ah well, suppose with no homework from now on we can concentrate on proper study!

laura!

i spent a total of zero hours on study over the holidays!!!!! anyone else in the same boat? i just can't study but i know i really need to!!!!

Pigwidgeon

woo finally finished all my homework...
did a bit of study here and there but not an excessive amount, an hour or so a day. tomorrows when the real work starts.

CaoimH_in

I've tried.. i physically can't get my head to remember things... it just wont! its gone to sleep! I'd say it'll be fine tho.. 400 points is achievable with 6 weeks (ish) around 40 days? to go.. school tomorrow, 2 subjects done a night, be a-ok!

xOxSinéadxOx

laura! wrote: »

i spent a total of zero hours on study over the holidays!!!!! anyone else in the same boat? i just can't study but i know i really need to!!!!

yeah same, I didn't even do my homework. I'm doing it now ffs!