Mid Term?

wayhey

Don't worry I'm definitely chilling this weekend :P

I'm just wondering what's the plans for mid-term, study or non-study? Figure it'll keep me well motivated to see how much others are doing :P

Teutorix

Dunno about you lot, but im going to cork for a 5 day bender. wuhay! :pac:

wayhey

Thats the first time my username's come up in a thread I've started :P

I actually can't wait to go out tomorrow night, I haven't been out in months...

Ciaramb92

I'm going to study..! Lazed around all through 5th year so need to start back getting 5th year stuff done!

Plan is:
Business - Unit 3 and half of 4
Physics - Waves and Sound and Light
Irish - 1 poem, 1 prós, 1 aiste
English - Robert Frost and Adrienne Rich
Maths - Trigonometry and Differentiation
French - Essay phrases
Applied Maths - Q1, 6 and 8 from papers


Lets hope I stick to it!

And then plans for Saturday and Sunday week.. A gal has to have some fun! :P

Teutorix

wayhey wrote: »

Thats the first time my username's come up in a thread I've started :P

I actually can't wait to go out tomorrow night, I haven't been out in months...

:eek: i didnt even look at your username WTF!

soccymonster

the amount of homework I got, I'll be surprised if I've time to breathe.

wayhey

soccymonster wrote: »

the amount of homework I got, I'll be surprised if I've time to breathe.

I've been like that the past few weeks... was actually up til 12 and getting up at 6 to finish stuff, twas craaaaaaaaazy. But finally back into the swing of it. Hang in there soccy, I've mountains to do too

partyatmygaff

I've got a fun week up ahead of me

About 12 pages worth of English essays
6 Maths exam questions
2 French Essays
Pretty much my entire Engineering brief

And there's what I need to study =/
Business - A lot of topics. Let's leave it at that.
Maths - Integration, Circle, Matrices, Differentiation, Trigonometry
English - Hamlet , Kavanagh
French - Reading Comprehension practice
Irish - An Triail

*sigh*

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Going to try and do 3 hours a day but I know I haven't a balls notion of keeping to my plan. I'll just try and do as much as possible I suppose.

sh4128

new poster here.. teachers gave us a small bit of homework got it all done 2nite but thats not the end my mum has signed me up for supervised study 9-4 everyday and yes that includes saturday and bank holidays and on sundays i work! fun times ahead week off ..yeah rite!

Evan93

Have exams the week I get back from midterm, so I'm planning to do a good bit of study. Take the weekend off, all week, then take Sunday off. Just like another week of school I suppose :rolleyes:

soup1

i was out last night and im goin to galway on monday for a few nights out! i got 545 last year and i went on a massive bender this time last year. . .so dont be stuck inside all midterm studying. .. they give you a break for a reason. ..enjoy it!

flyaway.

I have enough homework to keep me going for two weeks, never mind one! Did three hours last night, and three hours this morning and haven't even made a dent in what I have to do. I guess it's sort of revision in itself, anyway.

Chuchoter

Starting study on Monday. My plans:

Do all the Algebra questions in the papers based on the first 3 chapters in the book.
Do Applied maths questions from the papers until I finally start getting them right
Relearn all my French and Irish Tenses
Do a tonne of exam questions in Chemistry, Biology and especially physics.
I have no idea how to study for English aside from learning a few quotes, so I think I'll do that.

Basically I want all of this half terms work perfect before I start the rest of the term.

Liveit

Basically going to do sweet damn all :pac:

musicloverx

well I plan to relax a good bit and get as much work done as I can, teachers haven given us quite a lot of homework so il be working on covering that first so doubt i'll get much study done. Gonna do a bit of sorting though, have to sort my folders and stuff like that out for subjects cause got a bit messy over the past few weeks:rolleyes:
taking this weekend off and its being great, prob try and face the books monday.

plein de force

starting monday

i'm going to go do my outline plan for history and an essay or two
do a couple of maths questions
do some french essays, a letter and a comprehension
practice accounting ratios and look over management accounting
study business and do some of the questions in the book and exam papers
maybe some english revision too if i get time

and then il do some halloween stuff next sunday and go see some movies during the week if i find time

DavidKelly1

Arghh wasn't planning on any but now i'll do some seeing as everyone else is :P

English- Sylvia Plath and Act I Hamlet
Maths- Exam Q's. Paper 1 Q 1&2 and Paper 2 Q2
French- Tenses and phrases on The Struggle of Adolescents
Music- Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky (Really need to catch up)
Business- Unit 1,2,3.. I HATE UNIT 2 with all the acts >:(
Geography- Plate Tectonics, The Earth, Volcanoes and Topic 1-5 Geoecology
Irish- 2 poems and a Pros

yey....

I'm not starting until tomorrow though....

**Timbuk2**

DavidKelly1 wrote: »

I'm not starting until tomorrow though....

Why not? Start today - if you leave it too long, it might never get done. It reminds of overweight people who say they will be starting a strict exercise and diet regime in 2 weeks!

Even doing a small bit today would ease the pressure for tomorrow. Nothing like the feeling of 'I have a whole day to do all that' and it ends up at 10.50pm and you still have loads to do!

On a separate note, you all seem to have good plans. What worked for me last year (when I was doing my LC) was to make plans like

App Maths: 2007: Q3,5,10,6,1,2
Geography: 2009: Soil, 2007: Biomes questions
Maths: Differentiation, Integration
Accounting: 2007 Company Final a/cs
English: Any two reading comprehensions in last 5 years

That list above contains a lot of work but is manageable. Note you don't have to do it all in one go. I could do two applied maths questions, do a reading comprehension, do a few exercises in maths, get writing my geography essay, take a break, do an accounting question, do the other reading comoprehension, more exercises in maths, the remainder of the applied maths questions, dinner time!, the other geography essay - and bravo I'm done!

What worked for me (which may not be what works for you) is making plans in 'list' form but not in timetable form. Writing 12-12.50 Geography, 1-1.50 Accounting, ........ just never worked for me.

When I had my list, this is the order I would usually do it in. I would start with the easiest thing (or the thing I most enjoyed) - in order to get me to sit down and do it. Once I had that finished, I would attempt the hardest thing (your concentration is greatest here!), then eventually moving into less taxing work. So by the end of the day, when you are tired, you are not trying to do something overly-complicated and get frustrated.

I wouldn't worry too much about doing things over the mid-term. I didn't do much over the mid-term at all, mainly due to laziness and procrastination. I'm not saying do nothing, but take it easy. It's the last proper break you will get in a while. Christmas holidays may be spent revising for the pres, and Easter Holidays will be spent revising for the orals!

Maybe doing some academic related work without actually studying would be better. E.g. organise all your notes into a folder, clean up your study area, find a year planner calender and put it on your wall, etc.

ruadhan

crayolastereo wrote: »

Starting study on Monday. My plans:

Do all the Algebra questions in the papers based on the first 3 chapters in the book.
Do Applied maths questions from the papers until I finally start getting them right
Relearn all my French and Irish Tenses
Do a tonne of exam questions in Chemistry, Biology and especially physics.
I have no idea how to study for English aside from learning a few quotes, so I think I'll do that.

Basically I want all of this half terms work perfect before I start the rest of the term.

Wait a second there, I thought you were fifth year? Maybe I'm wrong but if you are then that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It's fifth year. It's midterm. Why the he'll would you study?? You probably have done barely any of any course and you'll have forgotten all that by two years time anyway.. I don't understand some fifth years really..

partyatmygaff

Being over zealous with study in fifth year isn't a good idea. It's great that you want to do well and are studying throughout fifth year but do too much and you'll be burned out come the end of sixth year.

soccymonster

wayhey wrote: »

I've been like that the past few weeks... was actually up til 12 and getting up at 6 to finish stuff, twas craaaaaaaaazy. But finally back into the swing of it. Hang in there soccy, I've mountains to do too

we can cope together
got a bulk of homework done yesterday which is good. I have a comparative still left to do though and I just can't get my head around it. Bleh. I'm grand when it comes to doing english essays but this is just a mess!!

nommm

Doing nothing till Wednesday. I think I might as well take a break while I can because I'll have to study during x mas and february midterm. Might try and get up early and have everything done by 2 or 3 on the days I do work so I have the rest of the day free.

double GG

Its too early for 3 or 4 hours study. There really is no point in it now, not this early anyhow. After Christmas maybe but 3 or 4 hours is a bit much IMO. I did my leaving cert last year and I found that a small lot of cramming helped considerably. Don't bank on cramming 'cos it is hard unless you've been doing all your life (460 points wasn't too bad for me though )


Try to get your homework out of the way as soon as possible. Then perhaps do an hour of study per day if you can. You still have 8 months till your exams remember. The Leaving cert is over hyped way too much. DON'T STRESS IT

Patri

DavidKelly1 wrote: »

Business- Unit 1,2,3.. I HATE UNIT 2 with all the acts >:(

Is that not unit one? unit 2 is like a page long

workingstudent

sat down today for 3 hours..a good start i think!..got plenty of work to do but basically plan to start looking over last years stuff aswell...theres no point killing yourself studying at this stage..you'll be burnt out by the time the exams come round if u do

Coeurdepirate

I have an English essay to do and some Irish notes to photocopy. How will I manage? :rolleyes:

Chuchoter

ruadhan wrote: »

Wait a second there, I thought you were fifth year? Maybe I'm wrong but if you are then that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It's fifth year. It's midterm. Why the he'll would you study?? You probably have done barely any of any course and you'll have forgotten all that by two years time anyway.. I don't understand some fifth years really..

Christmas Exams!

We've done loads of stuff and I'm on a roll of above 90% on everything and I've never been doing this well before (I was a crap B kind of student at JC) and I'd like to keep it that way! :P Its only 2.5hrs a day, and I'm up by 9 (god I just sound more exciting by the minute) so I'm done by 11 or 12. I'd rather do loads than do nothing and then spend the midterm worrying that my leaving cert is now screwed and I am never getting into medicine (I'm that kind of person, I panic over everything). I'm just worried that I'm a lazy person by nature and if I coast and do nothing I could still get Bs, and I don't want to get into that habit again.

Patriciamc93

well..........
English: comparative,Robert frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins and comprehension part B.
Maths: 6 exam questions (all revision)
Accounting: Service accounts and Tabular accounts ( thats not to bad!)
Biology: 7 long questions and 10 short questions plus 15 page ecology write up!
French: 2 comprehensions, document for the oral and test on all vocab since fifth year
Chemistry: bout 4 questions (which isn't bad for chemistry!)

That just homework! Mid term what mid term?!

But hey suppose that's what 6th year!

Rabbitandcavy

I got a bit of homework but not a lot, so I am going to do that and one chapter of biology and economics. It's not much, but still something. I'm relaxing this week.

LC2010HIS

Repeating and I havent even started...
The Plan:

Biology: The Cell, Cell continuity, Enzymes + Papers

History: Northern Ireland Case Studies
Hitler Foreign Policy
Start Home Rule Crisis

English: WH quotes

Ag Science: Potatoes and other crops

French: Grammar and comprehensions

Art: Sketch I guess




FML

red93

OMG i have so much to do still and i've been at it every day!!!:eek:

ye are all so lucky!!!!!!:)

soccymonster

I'm not studying over the midterm
Just doing my homework and chillaxing.
And now, I feel inferior.

TimeToShine

For Gods sake just relax, some guy up there said he'd been signed up for 9-4 study every day by his mother, are you serious? This is YOUR education, and this is probably your last chance to relax. Getting up early solely to study at this stage is pathetic, fair enough doing an hour or two at night if you're bored etc, but actually timetabling at this stage is really really lame. Our Maths teacher told us to take the mid term off and relax, because by fúcking God will the shít hit the fan come Christmas, when you realise you've mocks in a month and you know sweet fúck all. Believe me, take it easy at this stage, some light study is fine but for Gods sake if your parents are making you study at this stage grow a pair and tell them to fúck off.

Chuchoter

TimeToShine wrote: »

For Gods sake just relax, some guy up there said he'd been signed up for 9-4 study every day by his mother, are you serious? This is YOUR education, and this is probably your last chance to relax. Getting up early solely to study at this stage is pathetic, fair enough doing an hour or two at night if you're bored etc, but actually timetabling at this stage is really really lame. Our Maths teacher told us to take the mid term off and relax, because by fúcking God will the shít hit the fan come Christmas, when you realise you've mocks in a month and you know sweet fúck all. Believe me, take it easy at this stage, some light study is fine but for Gods sake if your parents are making you study at this stage grow a pair and tell them to fúck off.

I know a way of avoiding that situation....

magicianz

11 day bender in cork, unsecured wifi in friends houses yay