Exam Week: What are you planning?

LittleMissLost

For the actual week of exams how are you planning to structure yourselves. Are you planning on cramming/not?
I was thinking:

5.30pm - 10.30pm Study
Bed: 11.00pm
Wake up: 5.30am, study until 8 then get ready and go to school

I know its not ideal but its only a week and I think it'll be beneficial?

Also how are you going to deal with nerves?

I remember clearly the 1st exam in the Junior Cert my hand was shaking so much I could barely write!

I'm a nervous wreck and only procrastinating being on this! Help

Lorelei112

Nope, not gonna cram.. Feeling confident ill get the points i need since its only 315.. you'll be fine i'd say.. I wouldn't be able to do that cause my head would be wrecked after studying and doing exams.. Good Luck.

Iceboy

I have to say im starting to get quite nervous now myself, I like you idea of getting up very early on the exam morning to give you a few hours to study, I think im going to try do that myself, maybe go to bed at 12pm then wake up at like 5 in the morning. I know its not ideal only 5 hours of sleep but i honestly dont think it will effect me, I remember doing my junior cert on my geography exam the night before i practically stayed up on night studying and it actually paid off, got an A

Framble

5:30 is a bit crazy... there actually isn't match much you can do that late in the game. I'd get up at 7, take a look over my notes, write a few main points to remember... take some deep breaths. I think the most important thing is to be well rested and relaxed, that's not gonna happen if you kill yourself studying for 2 and half hours before the exam.

LilMissCiara

Try and study a bit the next 3 days.

Wednesday: Morning - Exam. Afternoon - 2 or 3 hours study for English Paper 2.
Thursday: Morning - Relax. Afternoon - Exam.
Friday: Morning - 1 or 2 hours study. Afternoon - Exam.

Weekend = Study Maths and Business.

Monday: Morning and Afternoon - Exams. Evening - Study French
Tuesday: Morning and Afternoon - Exams. Evening - Study French
Wednesday: Morning - Exam. Afternoon - Relax.

Rest of week/weekend = Relax and Study Physics and Applied Maths.

Monday: Morning - Exam. Afternoon -Relax

Tuesday-Thursday = Study Applied Maths

Friday - Morning - Exam. Afternoon - SHOTS!

brownlad

im gonna wakeup , shower...eat, go for a stroll done by 12pm.... have a w**k then revise at around 12:30 till 5 ish ..... have a nap at 6ish wake up at 10 pm and study till 3 ish................

its kinda weird but it works for me been doin it for a few weeks now....

Chuchoter

Don't get up at 5.30. Its all over at that point as regards study, you're better off to be well rested, its going to be a long day.

LittleMissLost

crayolastereo wrote: »

Don't get up at 5.30. Its all over at that point as regards study, you're better off to be well rested, its going to be a long day.

Ehh.. I'm banking on those 2 hours to get as much into my head as possible!!

B_Fanatic

brownlad wrote: »

im gonna wakeup , shower...eat, go for a stroll done by 12pm.... have a w**k then revise at around 12:30 till 5 ish ..... have a nap at 6ish wake up at 10 pm and study till 3 ish................

its kinda weird but it works for me been doin it for a few weeks now....

Might try this out : )

Diabhal Beag

You'll be really tired and the lack of sleep will effect you. Proper sleep over an hour extra study IMO.

Iceboy

crayolastereo wrote: »

Don't get up at 5.30. Its all over at that point as regards study, you're better off to be well rested, its going to be a long day.

Not true. You know how you hate certain topics in subjects (like when you look at something and say ''god how i gonna remember this!?'') and when you try to study it it goes out of your head in a matter of days, well If you study things that you are very weak at a few hours before the exam this means the info will be fresh in your head of the stuff you have struggled with over the previous weeks/months of study. This way you will have the knowlegde of knowing the stuff your good at and the stuff that that you didnt like so much fresh in your memory. I used this strategy in my junior and it actually payed off big time.

LilMissCiara

B_Fanatic wrote: »

Might try this out : )

What part..?! :P

LittleMissLost

LilMissCiara wrote: »

What part..?! :P

^^ lol :rolleyes: boys hey?

irish_man

Don't mean to be a nagging Nancy but should you not be studying at times the exams are on. Sure if you study at 5 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night then your body clock will be completely fúcked. I try myself to study from 9 in the mornin to 4 in the evenin takin a break from 12-1.30.

Regarding exam week. I generally do out over-ambitious exam plans(like I'm sure we all do). I don't do English or Irish so I mainly have only 1 exam a day. Days I have exams I plan on doing feck all study. Worked fairly well last year. I got up at 6am the morning of the geography exam and, as I'm not used to it, I was wrecked come 2 o'clock for Maths paper 2.

partyatmygaff

crayolastereo wrote: »

Don't get up at 5.30. Its all over at that point as regards study, you're better off to be well rested, its going to be a long day.

It's never too late to learn off a proof or two... or a quote or two.

You'll come to realise that when you're in sixth year

Chuchoter

There is nothing worth doing at 5.30. Absolutely nothing. I will never study at 5.30

irishgirl10

The whole 'cramming doesnt work' or 'not getting enough sleep doesnt work' is all rubbish. People are different. Just because it doesnt work for someobody doesnt mean it wont work for somebody else. Personally, I wont be studying past half 10 or in the morning, but Im a bad sleeper so I will probably be up half the night anyway!

jumpguy

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Ehh.. I'm banking on those 2 hours to get as much into my head as possible!!

partyatmygaff wrote: »

It's never too late to learn off a proof or two... or a quote or two.

You'll come to realise that when you're in sixth year

Eh, I dunno, you should really have nearly everything done by then. Unless you went to bed early I wouldn't get up that early and be tired for the exam (I'd get up at 8 or so if my exam was in the afternoon though, and maybe go for a walk and then cram before it.)

A lot of the LC might be a regurgitation exercise, but it's always a good idea to have the ceann in good shape for thinkin' too, God forbid, if such a situation should arise! :eek: :P

partyatmygaff

jumpguy wrote: »

Eh, I dunno, you should really have nearly everything done by then. Unless you went to bed early I wouldn't get up that early and be tired for the exam (I'd get up at 8 or so if my exam was in the afternoon though, and maybe go for a walk and then cram before it.)

A lot of the LC might be a regurgitation exercise, but it's always a good idea to have the ceann in good shape for thinkin' too, God forbid, if such a situation should arise! :eek: :P

Well I don't actually intend on doing any of that...

At most i'll wake up two hours before the exam to have a final read over of things to keep them fresh in my memory so that I can recall them more readily.

**Timbuk2**

99% of my study is cramming but getting up at 5.30am is a bad idea (in my opinion) - a clear head will be much more beneficial than the few extra details that you learn that morning (and what if it doesn't come up - you have the extra tiredness for nothing).

I did the leaving cert - the day itself is tiring, especially if you have two exams. If you get up at 5.30am, study, do an exam or two then come home, any study you do that evening will be unproductive due to mental tiredness.

It's a marathon not a sprint, remember

biggaman

5.30 sounds so early... i'd actaully prefer to stay up till like half one or 2 and get up just in time for the exam instead of doing that like??

teenagedream

Depends on the person I think. I wouldnt feel the need to cram before biology but I'd quite happily stay up all night going over irish.

plein de force

here's my plan for the next two weeks

next few days do some study and finish early on tuesday to go for a run and clear my head and get to bed early

Then

wednesday-Up at 7 relax take a few deep breaths
study for paper 2

thursday up at 7 study for paper 2
relax on thursday night

friday up at 7 and study maths
run and relax on friday evening

Weekend- study for maths and irish(which will turn into business as i hate irish)

monday-exam in morning and afternoon
go over business notes in the evening

tuesday
up at 6 to look over irish
then do the business and irish exam

look over history notes in the evening

wednesday
french study in the morning( im an A1 in french so i can kind of leave it til last minute)
history exam

relax for the evening

Thursday,friday,saturday,sunday, monday morning - study accounting

monday- accounting exam
monday evening- down a naggin while burning my uniform

Duda17

I know wat i will be doing and that is cramming every chance i get. I absolutely swear by cramming. I always cram the night before an exam and the morning and it is always that stuff that i have just gone over that i remember in the exam!

NotExactly

plein de force wrote: »

wednesday
french study in the morning( im an A1 in french so i can kind of leave it til last minute)

What's that supposed to mean,are you guaranteed an A1 in French or something?

wazzarooney

LilMissCiara wrote: »

What part..?! :P

Girls can masturbate too if it relaxes ye

LilMissCiara

wazzarooney wrote: »

Girls can masturbate too if it relaxes ye

Think I'll pass on that one..! :L

NotExactly

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Think I'll pass on that one..! :L

All lads know ye do it, ye just won't admit it :L

Framble

NotExactly wrote: »

What's that supposed to mean,are you guaranteed an A1 in French or something?

I think it means they're very good at French and they're confident in their ability to get an A1. nO NeEd tO gEt oFfENdeD!

NotExactly

Framble wrote: »

I think it means they're very good at French and they're confident in their ability to get an A1. nO NeEd tO gEt oFfENdeD!

It seems abit cocky TBH. nO nEeD tO TpYe lIKe a tW@t!

partyatmygaff

Well to be honest... if someone's genuinely fluent at French then the French exam would be trivially easy.

NotExactly

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Well to be honest... if someone's genuinely fluent at French then the French exam would be trivially easy.

The oral is worth 25% :rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

NotExactly wrote: »

The oral is worth 25% :rolleyes:

Fluency doesn't only mean you're of a high standard in spoken French. It means you are fluent in the language as a whole.

B_Fanatic

LilMissCiara wrote: »

What part..?! :P

The revision part. I was basically doing everything else anyway

Iceboy

My french is fairly poor tbh, which is why im doing ordinary level, Im not good at all at putting a sentence together, I only know alot of common words to do with general things which really is all you need in the odinary exam, besides the postcard im a little worried about that

irishgirl10

NotExactly wrote: »

What's that supposed to mean,are you guaranteed an A1 in French or something?

So what if he is? Fair play to him/her. Wish I had that confidence in Spanish! :P

plein de force

NotExactly wrote: »

It seems abit cocky TBH. nO nEeD tO TpYe lIKe a tW@t!

i'm not being cocky just confident as i have never gotten lower than an A and i've studied loads for it so i think i can put it on the back burner for a while. sure anything could happen and im actually not that confident in any other of my subjects though, i'm not the person who thinks they're the next stephen hawking type genius and is going to get an A in every subject.

brownlad

LilMissCiara wrote: »

Think I'll pass on that one..! :L

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ye..................:rolleyes:

LC2010HIS

Today: Comparative texts edit, Single Text essays
Tomorrow:
8:00am - 1:00pm - Single Text
2:00pm - 7:00pm - Poets
7:30 - 9:00pm - Short Story prep work
Tuesday:
8:00am - 1:00pm - Paper 1 letters, reports etc
2:00pm - 5:00pm - Short story practice
5:00pm - 7:00pm - Practice a few paragraphs
Wednesday:
9:30 - 12:20 - EXAM English P1
2:00pm - 7:00pm - Go over Paper 2 points and quotes
Thursday:
7:00am - 10:00am - Quotes and points
2:00pm - 5:20pm - EXAM English P2
7:00pm - 10:00pm - Art History
Friday:
8:00am - 12:00pm - Art History
12:00pm - 6:00pm - Biology papers
7:00pm-9:30pm - Biology experiments
Saturday:
8:00am - 12:00pm - French topics, comprehension
12:00pm- 6:30pm- Irish History
6:30pm - 10:00pm - Biology
Sunday:
8:00am-2:00pm - US history
2:30pm - 5:30pm - French Journal intime vocab
5:30pm - 10:00pm - Dictatorshhip and democracy
Monday:
8:00am - 10:00pm - French practice
10:00- 2:00 - Northern Ire case study
2:00- 6:30 - Irish History
6:30 - 10:00pm - Dictatorship and Democracy
Tuesday:
8:00am - 11:30am - Irish history
11:30 - 3:00pm - US history
3:00pm- 5:30pm - Dictatorships
6:30 - 8:30 French listening
Wednesday:
9:30 - 12:50 -EXAM :French written and aural
2:00 - 5:20 - EXAM : History
7:00pm - 8:30pm - Biology diagrams and definitions
Thursday:
9:30- 12:20: EXAM : Biology
2:00 - 4:30 : EXAM : Art History
Friday 17th - Wednesday 22nd : STUDY ALLLLLLL AGRI SCIENCE POSSIBLE

TheFullDuck

LC2010HIS wrote: »

Today: Comparative texts edit, Single Text essays
Tomorrow:
8:00am - 1:00pm - Single Text
2:00pm - 7:00pm - Poets
7:30 - 9:00pm - Short Story prep work
Tuesday:
8:00am - 1:00pm - Paper 1 letters, reports etc
2:00pm - 5:00pm - Short story practice
5:00pm - 7:00pm - Practice a few paragraphs
Wednesday:
9:30 - 12:20 - EXAM English P1
2:00pm - 7:00pm - Go over Paper 2 points and quotes
Thursday:
7:00am - 10:00am - Quotes and points
2:00pm - 5:20pm - EXAM English P2
7:00pm - 10:00pm - Art History
Friday:
8:00am - 12:00pm - Art History
12:00pm - 6:00pm - Biology papers
7:00pm-9:30pm - Biology experiments
Saturday:
8:00am - 12:00pm - French topics, comprehension
12:00pm- 6:30pm- Irish History
6:30pm - 10:00pm - Biology
Sunday:
8:00am-2:00pm - US history
2:30pm - 5:30pm - French Journal intime vocab
5:30pm - 10:00pm - Dictatorshhip and democracy
Monday:
8:00am - 10:00pm - French practice
10:00- 2:00 - Northern Ire case study
2:00- 6:30 - Irish History
6:30 - 10:00pm - Dictatorship and Democracy
Tuesday:
8:00am - 11:30am - Irish history
11:30 - 3:00pm - US history
3:00pm- 5:30pm - Dictatorships
6:30 - 8:30 French listening
Wednesday:
9:30 - 12:50 -EXAM :French written and aural
2:00 - 5:20 - EXAM : History
7:00pm - 8:30pm - Biology diagrams and definitions
Thursday:
9:30- 12:20: EXAM : Biology
2:00 - 4:30 : EXAM : Art History
Friday 17th - Wednesday 22nd : STUDY ALLLLLLL AGRI SCIENCE POSSIBLE

:eek: That's a crazy amount of study!

OldSchool94

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I'm a nervous wreck and only procrastinating being on this! Help

It's adrenaline on the day

LC2010HIS

TheFullDuck wrote: »

:eek: That's a crazy amount of study!

Have no choice !!!
Probably wont get the ideal amount done anywho!

NotExactly

TheFullDuck wrote: »

:eek: That's a crazy amount of study!

I agree. 11 and a half hours study tomorrow will have you killed by Wednesday.

LC2010HIS

NotExactly wrote: »

I agree. 11 and a half hours study tomorrow will have you killed by Wednesday.

I feel ive feck all done though......

NotExactly

LC2010HIS wrote: »

Monday:
8:00am - 10:00pm - French practice
10:00- 2:00 - Northern Ire case study
2:00- 6:30 - Irish History
6:30 - 10:00pm - Dictatorship and Democracy

Hold on a sec, on Monday you plan on doing 14 hours study in a row are you a machine or something?:rolleyes:

LC2010HIS

NotExactly wrote: »

Hold on a sec, on Monday you plan on doing 14 hours study in a row are you a machine or something?:rolleyes:

I dunno I spend ages on the one thing .........

Help meeeeee! Im drowned in notes atm

LittleMissLost

Lads ive just realised I'm actually F****D!!!
Everyone is expecting at least 520 from me but I haven't done a tap!
I don't know what to do!

partyatmygaff

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Lads ive just realised I'm actually F****D!!!
Everyone is expecting at least 520 from me but I haven't done a tap!
I don't know what to do!

Just do your best. There's little else you can do really. Worrying about meeting other people's expectations of you won't help in the slightest.

sheep-go-baa

Well there's loads of different opinions on this but everyone has to do what suits them in the end.
Last year I had everyone telling me to 'take it easy' before the exams and get a good nights sleep. That wasn't happening when there was stuff I had yet to set my eyes on.
Slow and steady pace of study is all well and good, but if you haven't been doing that up till now, people telling you not to cram gets very annoying!
If you think you can stay up all night, then do that, some people can.
And never fear, there's time to learn plenty yet!
Cramming hasn't remained so popular for no reason

LC2010HIS

LittleMissLost wrote: »

Everyone is expecting at least 520 !

What! Why?:eek:

LittleMissLost

LC2010HIS wrote: »

What! Why?:eek:

Because I got 480 in the mocks and all my family & friends are just presuming I'm gonna get that! Such pressure! And to make it worse my stepmum keeps saying I'm going to get 555 (which I am NOT) and that she'll buy me a car and all this crap.
It's never going to happent and I'm just under so much pressure and I know I wont meet their expectations! Hate this pressure it really gets me down