Should i start crammin?

aarong1169

I have a good enough bit of studyin done but not enough motivation. I have a timetable n stuff n only do about 5 nights a week. Should i start cramming and do 7 days a week. And, how much would you say is cramming?

Desire.

Well I would say five nights a week is a lot, but if you feel you're not doing enough, this is the time to increase the workload.

Zeouterlimits

Don't push yourself too hard. Study as much you feel want/need to. Explain to a teacher how much you actually cover during a week and ask for their thoughts. You'll likely be surprised and find out you're in a better position than most.

Cakes.

A lot of people I've been talking to say that there only starting studying this week, I've been doing a bit the last few weeks but not a load.

aarong1169

Desire. wrote: »

Well I would say five nights a week is a lot, but if you feel you're not doing enough, this is the time to increase the workload.

A lot? Really? Are you doing your jc? If you are how much study dyu do?

Desire.

aarong1169 wrote: »

A lot? Really? Are you doing your jc? If you are how much study dyu do?

Yes, that's a lot in my opinion. I'm doing my Junior Cert, yeah, and I try and do a small bit every night, but I don't do that much to be honest. Too lazy and I just couldn't be bothered.

It depends on what you're aiming for. I'm going for six A's and I'm fairly confident I will achieve that the way I am going at the moment.

aarong1169

Desire. wrote: »

Yes, that's a lot in my opinion. I'm doing my Junior Cert, yeah, and I try and do a small bit every night, but I don't do that much to be honest. Too lazy and I just couldn't be bothered.

It depends on what you're aiming for. I'm going for six A's and I'm fairly confident I will achieve that the way I am going at the moment.

your just smart anyway are ya? haha. im aiming for 5 a's but ill have to work for em

Slow Show

Well it's probably the time for cramming, what with it starting in a few weeks. Five nights sounds like plenty to me, but if you're bothered about not doing enough, do more - it really is as simple as that (way easier said than done, I know). It's hard to ask how much study you should be doing because everyone is different. I have a creepily good memory and I've always been good at English and therefore I'm quite good at putting what I know into words, but that's just me and because of that, I don't think I need to do a whole lot of study (we'll see in September.:p) but you're probably different in your own way.

As for me, bleh, I do a little bit each day and on each weekend day. I could do a lot more but motivation is hard to come by.

Desire.

aarong1169 wrote: »

your just smart anyway are ya? haha. im aiming for 5 a's but ill have to work for em

Meh! I don't know about that. :P

I guess I am smart enough as I'm in the top class. I got 5 A's in my Pres without much study, just a bit for a week or so before. I was much more worried about my Pres than my Junior Cert.

I should get my 6 A's handy enough -- I just need to do a little bit every night until the exams. Not bothering with the other four subjects.

Jackobyte

There is no set standard for how much study to do. I did very little but I am very smart anyway. I started 2 weeks before it started and only studied History, Irish, English and Spanish(my B's from the mocks). Everything else was "the night before"/"weekend before" study and I got 9A's and a B.

In contrast, a girl in my class was studying from September and she got 4A's, 4B's and 2C's. Not a great result from 9 months study.

Slow Show

Jackobyte wrote: »

There is no set standard for how much study to do. I did very little but I am very smart anyway. I started 2 weeks before it started and only studied History, Irish, English and Spanish(my B's from the mocks). Everything else was "the night before"/"weekend before" study and I got 9A's and a B.

In contrast, a girl in my class was studying from September and she got 4A's, 4B's and 2C's. Not a great result from 9 months study.

Heh, you made me feel better. I spent a while having a mini freak-out like a week ago about being halfway through May and having nothing done at all. But then I opened a book and realised I don't really have that much to do. I've always been the type to get good results without having to try particularly hard (which sounds all sorts of cockiness, but it's calling a spade a spade) and the Junior Cert isn't exactly a strenuous and complex exam. :pac:

This is probably of absolutely no use to most people...but yeah, nearly on the 2 week mark. I think my aim of 7 A's and 3 B's are achievable if I cram my weaker subjects from now on...

Jackobyte

Slow Show wrote: »

Heh, you made me feel better. I spent a while having a mini freak-out like a week ago about being halfway through May and having nothing done at all. But then I opened a book and realised I don't really have that much to do. I've always been the type to get good results without having to try particularly hard (which sounds all sorts of cockiness, but it's calling a spade a spade) and the Junior Cert isn't exactly a strenuous and complex exam. :pac:

This is probably of absolutely no use to most people...but yeah, nearly on the 2 week mark. I think my aim of 7 A's and 3 B's are achievable if I cram my weaker subjects from now on...

The Highlights were cramming the entire Geography textbook in an hour and a half (all 360+ pages) the night before the exam as well as covering all of Maths in a night. :P It may have been the same night, I can't find last years timetable to check.

I was aiming for 7A's as well. And the Irish wasn't even one of the exam's I thought I'd get a B in. It was an A paper but by the time that the deadline for appeals was coming around, I didn't care enough to get it checked.

Btw, I had done the homework properly the whole way up. I had worked through all of 3rd year, doing exam papers when we were given them for homework, but I didn't textbook study or do exam papers at my own accord, until 2 weeks prior to it.

Eoin_Sheehy

I've a study plan made out which has 3 hours every night 4 hours on Wednesday and Saturday and 5 on a Sunday, do I follow it? Not at all, I'm quite laid back that I'll get the 8 A's I'm looking for.

Jackobyte

Eoin_Sheehy wrote: »

I've a study plan made out which has 3 hours every night 4 hours on Wednesday and Saturday and 5 on a Sunday, do I follow it? Not at all, I'm quite laid back that I'll get the 8 A's I'm looking for.

No one follows study plans, you just make them to delay actually studying that bit longer.

Slow Show

Jackobyte wrote: »

Btw, I had done the homework properly the whole way up. I had worked through all of 3rd year, doing exam papers when we were given them for homework, but I didn't textbook study or do exam papers at my own accord, until 2 weeks prior to it.

Heh, confidence evaporating. I've done very little homework throughout 3rd year, or at least since Christmas. Teachers stopped caring as much and enforcing that it must be done, so I just didn't do it. Irish is a perfect example, so it's my own problem really that it's one of my B subjects. That and my teacher is slightly atrocious. I always did exam papers (exempting Irish for that too, there's only so much unseen poetry one can do) though, because they felt a lot less tedious than textbook work.

Jackobyte

Slow Show wrote: »

Heh, confidence evaporating. I've done very little homework throughout 3rd year, or at least since Christmas. Teachers stopped caring as much and enforcing that it must be done, so I just didn't do it. Irish is a perfect example, so it's my own problem really that it's one of my B subjects. That and my teacher is slightly atrocious. I always did exam papers (exempting Irish for that too, there's only so much unseen poetry one can do) though, because they felt a lot less tedious than textbook work.

My teachers kept enforcing it for the most part. It worked like this:

One persons doesn't do it, "Not a problem. Just follow the corrections in class."
2-9 people don't do it, "Notes home!:P"
10+ people, "Just forget it, I don't know why I bother." *incoherent mumbling* :pac: