Glee_GG's study log

Glee_GG

Hello!

Hoping to do Medicine in UCD next year so hoping for 590/600 points and hopefully the HPAT will stop hating me soon!

What I'm doing/hope to get:

Maths (H) - B1
English (H) - B2
Irish (H) - A2/B1
German - higher but soon to be pass if I have my way! - B3
Biology (H) - A1
Chemistry (H) - A1
Physics (H) - A1
Applied Maths (H) A2/B1

Glee_GG

Mainly focusing on the HPAT this week and next since its next weekend but going to keep a bit of study going.

Tonight:
Irish: Get sraith pictiur 3 revised
Chemistry: Anion testing and ethyne experiments
Biology: Start on human reproduction

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Seem to be avoiding anything not HPAT related tonight so did the ACER sample paper 1 section 3 again. Got 24/30 so happy enough with that.

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Lacking the motivation to do anything study-related this week. Seem to just have the HPAT on my brain the whole time so going to do a few section 1 and 3 drills and go over some of the section 3 exams I've done.

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Not letting myself do anything HPAT related today cause I think my brain needs a rest! Need to finish off homework and going to do:
German: picture sequence for oral
Irish: Sraith pictiur and write up about myself, family, where i live, my house. Write up notes on Spalpin fanach
Chemistry: anion experiment
Maths: Sequences and series, theorems

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Being incredibly lazy today and haven't opened a book. I do so much more when i'm in school. Did my final HPAT exam though so not a complete waste of a day, went alright, so still unsure of where i am with the stupid thing!

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Got four mocks back so far and I'm actually delighted with them!
Irish -A2
Biology - A1
Chemistry - A1
Physics - B1
I knew they were gonna be my best ones but I'm so happy with that A in Irish!

Would be delighted with that in June except for Physics, gonna try and bump that up to an A1.

Gonna look over some sraith pictiur tonight, taking tomorrow off to look over some HPAT stuff and to sort out some last minute bits of it in my head!

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Took the day off to go over HPAT drills in sections 1 and 3, haven't gotten a whole lot better but definitely feeling calmer about the whole thing, just want to do it now and get it over with.

Learnt irish oral on myself, family, house and where I live, facilities etc. Going to learn about last summer and next summer now and I'm leaving it at that for the night. Trying to keep things easy this week, don't want to be exhausted by saturday

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English back today - C2, not really happy with it, especially with my comparative mark as I really felt it was the best answer I could have written. Pretty much certain now I won't be counting it so going to focus a lot more now on my other 6 subjects I think.

Going to over a good bit of Irish oral tonight:
Sraith 5 and 6
Last summer, next summer, weekends, daily routine
Need to go over some HPAT exam questions and print out admission ticket, not doing anything tomorrow night or friday, need to focus my mind
Do some trig questions from exam papers

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Finished with the HPAT at long last! Happy enough with how it went, section one and three went ok for me, parts were difficult enough but really don't know how section 2 went, hopefully it'll work out though! Chilling for the night now and back to work tomorrow!

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Now that the Hpats over must get seriously down to work!
Tonight:
German: oral work on myself, family and how we get on, learn half a roleplay
Irish: sraith pictiur
Physics: three chapters on magnetism
Biology: start on human reproduction
Chemistry: electrochemistry
Maths: differenciation from first principles

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So much to do! These sraith pictiuri are starting to take over my life!
Irish: Sraith 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Biology: Finish revising human reproduction and revise bacteria and batch/continous flow processing
Maths: four years of differential questions

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Serious amount to be done this weekend, not looking forward to it! Have 7 out of 8 mocks back so far and I'm honestly delighted with them!

Maths: A2 (delighted wasn't even the word) 115
Biology: A1 100
Chemistry: A1 100
Physics: A2 (went up a grade on looking over marking) 90
Irish: A2 90
German: B3 75
English: C2
App Maths: Not back yet but hopefully got a B2

570 so far!

To do this weekend
German: roleplay and picture sequence, oral on me, family, where i live, after school, verbs in present, past, imperfect tenses
Irish: Sraith 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 oral on me, family, where i live, last summer, summer, daily routine, weekend, hobbies
Maths: Differenciation and probability exam Q's, similiar triangles theorom.
App Maths: Exam questions on Q10 (b)'s and Q8 theoroms for part (a)
Physics: magnetism and exam questions, heat and exam questions.
Bio: Ecology definitions and nitrogen and carbon cycles, experiments on plants
Chem: Acid & Bases, Chem Equil and bleach titration
English: Lady Macbeth

Gonna be kept busy!

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Didn't get everything I wanted finished but I'll finish them off this week. Gonna chill for the rest of the evening, dying with a sore throat and I can feel a head-cold coming so its time for some tea and tv!

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Got applied maths back today - B2! So 575 points in all:) throat is absolutely killing me, legit going to google a throat transplant soon and see if that can happen for me!

To do:
- Irish: sraith 12, oral on the points system and after the leaving, already did an hour of oral practise after school
- German: roleplay
- Chemistry: water and sewage treatment

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This cold is an absolute joke, genuinely feel like theres a fat man sitting on my brain trying to squash it! Might take tomorrow off cause I think i really just need some sleep and rest! Gonna try and do a bit tonight but not much:
Irish: sraith pictiur and opipion on points system
German: roleplay
Chem: volumetric analysis titrations

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Took the day off to rest, dying with this headcold which is just the worst. Going to try and do a bit of study this evening but i'm not going to push it.
Irish: sraith 14 and go back over oral work to date
Chem: redox titrations

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This cold is just never going to go away! Only thing keeping me going are these guys I've way too many feeling for this band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNaM-N1NdGo

Plan for tonight:
Done homework which included about 500 maths exam questions so thats maths done for the night!
Chem: Do exam questions on redox and vol. analysis titrations!
English: Written half a Hopkins essay, I'll get around to the rest at some stage this weekend
Irish: Sraith pictiur

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Not been a productive day tbh, so exhausted but sure yo'll start again tomorrow.
Irish: sraith 16
English: finished hopkins essay
Maths: had maths grinds for an hour, did exam questions on probability and statistics
Biology: did exam papers 2004 section A

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Got nothing done today due to my dad spending the day in A&E because he's an eejit! Got a nice enough bit done yesterday though
German: Roleplays 1, 2, 3, 5, oral work on me, family, school, subjects, rules, ty and after school
Biology: yeast, amoeba, bacteria, batch and continous flow
Chemistry: water theory and water hardness exp

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Done for the night, absolutly wrecked this evening!
Irish: went through the poems for the oral and sraith 18 (nearly there!)
Physics: did chapters on electron, atom, radioactivity, nuclear power and the option on particle physics and all the exam questions
Maths: complex no exam q's

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So busy the last few days with mock orals, had an irish one yesterday and today and was delighted with how they went. Our teacher is just the cutest man though so they really just feel like your having a chat and its really chill so its really calmed me down for them. Told me he feels I'm around the 230 mark so really happy with that, just have to keep going over my pictures! German one wasn't a complete disaster, roleplay and picture went really well, just need to write a bigger piece on future plans etc.

So much to do over Easter, got 4 english essays alone to write so going to be kept busy!

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Today:
German: 2009 letter and aural and 2008 comprehension
Applied Maths: half of 2000 paper
English: Essay on Kingship in Macbeth
Irish: Oral work and sraith 1,2,3,4
Maths: Hour of grinds, did exam questions on bits of everything

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Been fairly busy for the last few day but hasn't been all study I'm afraid!
What I've done since last time:
Irish: sraith 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Went over reading of poetry.
Chemistry: fuels and thermochemistry and all the Q's 6's from 2011 to 2004
Maths: had hour of grinds, did exam questions and been doing exam questions on bits of everything really!
English: started revising Shakespeare's sonnets

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Also got Q's 5's in chemistry from 2011 to 2008 done

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Done so far today:
Physics: all the mechanics and heat experiments and all the exam questions on them so hopefully that's 2 exam questions for June covered
Irish: sraith 11 and 12 and went back over 1-10, oral work on school rules and what would happen if you broke a school rule and if you were principal/minister for education/won the lotto what would you do, went over reading over poetry
Applied maths: did about 4 years worth of Q 3's and 4's

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Good enough bit done today:
Biology: Section A 2011-2008, revised all of genetics and did 6 years worth of exam questions.
Physics: three years worth of Q 5's from 11-09
Maths: four years of integration questions and went over getting area of disc by integration
Irish: Sraith 13 and 14, went over all oral work to date

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Really unproductive day, tiredness just really hit me! That my excuse anyway! Been going to a physics revision course this week so that finished off today and then had an Irish oral for an hour, had a few practise orals and went over a couple of new things like our justice system, what I'd do if I was a judge, youth problems and just some abstract stuff like that. Promise to do more tomorrow!

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The last two days definitely haven't been my best study wise! Heading out with the family for the evening and got nowhere near as much as I wanted done. Might do more later if we're not back too late.
German: picture sequence for oral on travelling without a ticket which I've bee putting off doing forever!
Applied maths: got 3 Q4's done

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Irish: sraith 17 and 20 done
Maths: did exam questions on bits of every thing, mostly paper 2 Q's though
Physics: went over circular motion and did 4 exam questions on it
Applied maths: did 3 years worth of Q 3's
German: went back over picture I did yesterday

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So very very tired. Spent most of the last two days in hospital with my nan so didn't get a huge lot done and I'm away in Dublin for the next two days but hopefully I'll get a good bit done on the train up and down.

Irish: Sraith 16 done, went over all the others done so far and went over all my Irish oral work to date
Applied Maths: Did 5 more years worth of Q 3's and 4's
Maths: Did 5 years worth of integration Q's

Btw has anyone done the option in Chemistry? Thinking of doing it myself but do you do the two options and one comes up on the exam or do we just do one? I'm feeling too lazy right now to look it up!

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Btw has anyone done the option in Chemistry? Thinking of doing it myself but do you do the two options and one comes up on the exam or do we just do one? I'm feeling too lazy right now to look it up!

Hey I'm considering the same thing myself, you pick one of the two and in each there's two sections and one of them comes up. So yeah basically just do one. I tried doing the Industrial/Atmospheric one but just found Industrial incredibly tedious so I gave up. Think I'll just leave it out at this stage.:P

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^ cheers :') i'll have a look through it next week and see if i'll do it

Been in dublin for the last two days which was amazing, went out wednesday night, was unreal! Gotten a nice enough bit done

Irish: sraith 18 and 19 and went over oral work
German: grammar - akk, dat and gen preps, personal and reflexive pronouns, adjective endings for definite and indefinite pronouns
Chemistry: stoiciometry and exam calculations on it
Physics: 7 deveriations and definitions for electricity
Applied maths: 3 years worth of Q5's

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Been diagnosed with a bad case of tonsillitis which sucks! Hopefully it'll be gone in a few days, need my voice to practise for the orals. Did nothing yesterday due to my throat and just got a tiny bit done today.

Irish: Sraith 16, have them all learned now. Just have to keep going over them now. Went over some oral work
English: Did essay on 'How Macbeth is still relevant today', seeing as its not it was a bit of a trek

Hopefully I'll be a bit better tomorrow, theres gonna be a lot of late nights for the next 8 weeks.

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Lots to be done, going to give the next eight weeks everything I have (probably going to regret saying this soon at some point!)
Plan for the night:

Irish: Sraith 1,3,5,7,9. Oral on Me, family, where I live, school -subjects, facilities, rules, do I like it, concert, last summer, part-time job
Physics: Five light experiments and exam questions
Chemistry: Atomic theory and Trends in period table and exam questions
Biology: Learn skeletal system so far and go over food/scientitic method/plant/genetic experiments
Maths: Start going over the Circle

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Got everything done last night that I wanted. Tonight:

Irish: revise poem 'Fill Aris' and do sraith 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
App Maths: Q8(a)'s theoroms
Physics: chapter on semi-conductors and joule's law experiment
Chemistry: stop putting off anion testing and actually do it
Maths: finish revising the circle from the book and I'll do exam questions tomorrow

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Got all of last nights plan done so hoping to keep it up for the rest of the week!

Tonight:
Irish: Sraith 11, 13, 15, 17, 19. Do poem Colmáin
Maths: Do exam questions on the Circle
Bio: Respiration, Eye and Ear and do exam questions
Ger: Do 3 roleplays and learn picture sequence on Winterurlaub
Physics: Do electricity experiment on current and voltage for active electrodes/filament blubs/etc.

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Irish oral tomorrow, starting to feel pretty nervous about it though. Had a mock oral this morning and my examiner said I should definatly get an A1 if I go through everything slowly and not panic if I don't get my best sraith. Spent all weekend doing irish mostly

Irish: have gone through all the sraith's twice and gone over all my oral work a few times. Need this oral to go well for me!
Biology: did plant reproduction and exam questions
Applied Maths: did a few years of Q5's

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Had my Irish oral today and really happy with how it went! Hopefully got the A1 in it. Got Geibheann to read and Sraith 2 on the credit card which was beautiful! Comhra was grand too, nothing too strange, managed to slip the MC into convo twice so she didn't ask me any specific question using it. Know I made a couple of grammar mistakes here and there and was a bit all over the place in one of my answer but overall think it went pretty well!

Taking tomorrow and probably Wednesday off to study since we're finished all the courses now except German and I'm not really counting that! Teachers are just doing nothing really with the orals on so I'll do way more on my own. Going to give myself a bit of a rest tonight but have to have the 2001 Applied Maths paper for next week so think I might just do that tonight!

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Took today off to do some work, happy enough with what I got done. Going to take tomorrow off as well I think

Chemistry: All theory on Organic Chemistry and 5 years of exam questions on it
Biology: Endocrine system and Osmosis and all exam questions
App Maths: Seven years worth of Q1's
Maths: Co-ordinate Geometry of the Line
German: 3 roleplays, 3 picture sequences, oral on me, family, how we get on, how I help at home.

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Todays workload!

German: last 2 roleplays, another picture sequence, oral on daily routine, all about school, rules, TY, subjects, what I do in german, importance of languages.
Irish: Geibheann
Maths: exam Q's on coordinate geometry and some other random bits
Bio: Digestive System and exam Q's
Physics: All definitions on waves and sound waves, Doppler and exam Q's
App Maths: 4 more years of Q1's

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Its so much effort to update this sometimes! Been doing bits and pieces over the last few days,

Physics: Light waves and exam Q's so that that section done
German: oral work and more oral work and some more after that
Applied Maths: Gone a bit crazy in the last 3/4 days with the amount of applied maths I've been doing, gotten at least 30 questions on bits of everything done, just can't seem to sit down and learn anything lately so I find it good since you're just working through problems