Hours studying for LC?

Becca2332

Is 20 hours a week enough to be studying for the leaving cert? How much is everyone else doing?

partyatmygaff

Pointless...

There's absolutely no point in comparing hours with people. Some people can get by with doing very few hours of study and others may need to study 24/7 to get what they want. There's no set amount of hours that you should study.

mpdg

I get where Becca is coming from, but you are genuinely wasting energy comparing hours of study with people. It's like going through what other people did in a test after the test. It won't change anything and even though it initially does feel reassuring, in the long run you are investing huge amounts of energy into stressing. You don't need the stress at this point in the year. Chill. Do what YOU need to do to feel able to do the exams to YOUR standard, and feck everyone else.

alwayswright

Keep in mind that its 'quality, not quantity'. Some people can get done in ten minutes what takes another a full hour. The same hold true for essays, just because its 7 pages long, doesn't necessarily mean that its A1 standard...

JamJamJamJam

What's more important is what you get through, and how well you get through it... It's easy to forget that, but don't! :-)

Evan93

Hours is not a great indicator of the quality study. Your 20 hours could be my 5 hours, or my 30 hours. Everyone is different. One could be fluent in French and spend 20 minutes studying it whereas another person could spend hours. And so on. It's trivial to compare "hours" of study with others.

zoom!

What everyone else says is true, it's pointless the amount of study you do really depends on how well you want to do. But one thing I always found last year when I did mine I always came home did a bit of study and thought 'I've done enough I'll watch TV for the rest of the night', but truthfully, I could have done more. The point is unless your either really tired or preoccupied with something else, you should be studying. You should leave yourself at least 2 hours a day for 'me time' thats enough time to relax.

EuropeanSon

Not nearly enough. A minimum of 437 hrs per week is required for a D3 average, 2422 hrs for A1s.

NotExactly

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Not nearly enough. A minimum of 437 hrs per week is required for a D3 average, 2422 hrs for A1s.

Was that meant to be funny or something?

partyatmygaff

NotExactly wrote: »

Was that meant to be funny or something?

Nah, the sneaky fecker is trying to mislead people in to a false sense of security. You'd need almost double the amount of time he said in order to get even near a pass let alone an A1.

EuropeanSon

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Nah, the sneaky fecker is trying to mislead people in to a false sense of security. You'd need almost double the amount of time he said in order to get even near a pass let alone an A1.

Shhhh!