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Exam Routine

  • 07-06-2011 7:46am
    #1
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭


    What routine do you intend to have while the exams are on? Get up early to get in a quick bit of study, or get your eight hours? ;)
    I'll probably get up at around eight each morning, shower, have a decent breakfast, and have a glance at some notes.

    Between exams I'm going to come home to relax and do a little preparation for the next exam, although my parents warned against doing much between exams.

    By the end of the day, I'll probably chill for an hour or so, before studying for the following days exams.

    I remember in the mocks I did very little the night before each exam, but they all seemed to go well for me, so is taking it easy better than studying hard?

    Under two weeks until the 20th now. :D


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  • #2
    Slow Show
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    Get up at my normal time, get ready, go to school. Walk into exam centre and wait. :pac: I don't think I'll be able to learn anything vital in that space of time, and I'd rather be as well-rested as possible. Maybe for Geography I might look over something I don't like on the bus but otherwise, nah.

    I have to stay in school during the breaks, so I'll probably just be chilling out for them. 3-hour break for Irish is a tad much though! And then in the evening I'll relax until dinner and then try study for the next day's exams for an hour or so.

    I didn't do much for the mocks either and I did grand, I may have a false sense of security now but this is it anyway, no point saying I should have tried harder now, what's done is done so I'm just going to try and do my best in the exams - after all, the examiner doesn't know how lazy I've been.


  • #3
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    I'm going to be cramming the night before each exam! I did it for the Pres and it went well enough. Except I stayed up until five before English paper two -- I'm definitely not doing that again, but I did get 78% in it. :)

    I'll probably go to sleep sometime before two o' clock. I generally go to sleep at two every night anyway. I'm not going to study in the morning. I'll maybe look over some notes if I have them, have breakfast, go to the exam center, and ace the test.

    Come home, cram, and repeat. :pac:


  • #4
    Mayo_Boy
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    Desire. wrote: »
    I generally go to sleep at two every night anyway.
    Even on school nights? :eek:


  • #5
    Indiego
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Indiego


    My plan is to cram the night before (thank god we never have more than 2 subjects a day :O), go to bed around 10:30ish and get up at 6:30, have a shower and get ready (which takes me about an hour :/) then study for an hour until 8:30, have breakfast and leave around 8:40 ( we have to be in school for 9, my school is a 10m walk from my house), while walking there me and my friend will probablyyyy get ourselves a bit freaked out, but then i have 10m when i get there to look over anything i might rememeber to study/forget how to answer at the last minute, and then, well the rest of it....


  • #6
    innovation.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭innovation.


    Go to bed at around 12-ish (I won't sleep 'til around 2 though), wake up at half 7, shower, get dressed (obviously :L), have my breakfast and then leave. I'll probably read over some notes on my iPhone while on the bus to school, and then the rest is the dreaded part. :eek::D

    When I'm home from the early exam, I'm going to have some fruit just to keep me going then probably have a little nap just so I feel a little fresh. :cool: Then after that I'll play it by hand and study for about an hour each night just looking over all my mock exams and past papers. :)


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  • #7
    spurious
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    Make sure you all get enough sleep anyway. Doing exams is tiring.

    If tempted to stay up late studying for an exam, remember it's not the day directly after the late night you'll feel tired, but the following day.


  • #8
    Desire.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭Desire.


    spurious wrote: »
    If tempted to stay up late studying for an exam, remember it's not the day directly after the late night you'll feel tired, but the following day.

    Uh oh! I didn't get to sleep until after four last night! :eek:
    Mayo_Boy wrote: »
    Even on school nights? :eek:

    Yeah, I think it's grand. If you always stay up that late you will get pretty exhausted eventually, but I tend to go to sleep at midnight on Wednesdays and I sleep in at weekends whenever I can.


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