Stacey's Study Log

peekachoo

The idea of these logs seems very motivating so I think I'll try it out.

Was very hardworking in 5th year and aced all my subjects but idk gone so lazy this year!
Goal for the leaving is 540, didn't do a stitch of work for the mocks and they're coming in around 430-460 so loads of work to do. Starting to think honours everything is a bad idea!

Anyway basically today is just a crash course in oral Irish as my mock is tomorrow morning!

peekachoo

Also my mock results as of now;
D3 in maths HL (seems low but I'm ecstatic I passed )
B2 in English HL
C1 in Biology HL - gutted as I usually get A1s but I didn't do any study so it was expected.
C2 in Geography HL - also usually A1 subject but the paper was a shambles, needs more time to complete it, left out a whole section!
Still waiting on Art, German and Irish HL

peekachoo

Two hours to go until my mock Irish oral!
I've been up since 9 cramming and regretting not studying. At this stage I've just been going through the sraith pictiuri making sure I can make up basic sentences.
hopeless for the comhra although if the examiner sticks to basic enough topics it should be alright.
Caithfimis bheith dóchasach

peekachoo

The four hours of tedious cramming this morning helped, Irish oral went great when I say great, possibly a C1 (not counting Irish anyway)
The examiner said my poetry was the best he had heard the sraith pictiur went okay also, I was just delighted I understood his three questions!

I was freaking out about comhra because others that did it today got questions like "What would you do if you were the minister for health/education?" but I figured such questions stemmed from college courses so I went with "nil a fhios ach tá suim agam le ceim bitheolaiocht bfheidir" (I know, fadas take too long to do okay)
Anyway my comhra was nice and simple, family, hobbies etc, what I would like to do next year and the likes...:D Overall happy with it

Gonna take the rest of the day off and get back on track tomorrow.

David1994

I was going to wish ya luck earlier but my internet went dead for a while :L
Glad it went so good!

peekachoo

Appreciate it anyways kinda reassuring knowing there's another month until the real thing though, phew!

peekachoo

Spent the night writing up and learning off some geography essays, definitely time for a sleep now!

peekachoo

Finished correcting and studying said corrections from the geography mock this morning, gonna learn German Rollenspiel 3&4 now and then finish up bits of homework for the night

Sat here wondering does anyone else study with headphones on...

David1994

peekachoo wrote: »

Finished correcting and studying said corrections from the geography mock this morning, gonna learn German Rollenspiel 3&4 now and then finish up bits of homework for the night

Sat here wondering does anyone else study with headphones on...

It depends what I am studying but now and again I use headphones :

peekachoo

David1994 wrote: »

It depends what I am studying but now and again I use headphones :

At least I'm not alone in hindsight it's probably why I forget everything though.

peekachoo

Ugh well today was rotten.

Currently laughing at my feeble attempts to complete my maths homework (trigonometric function graphs are making NO sense to me )
I have two more German rollenspielen to learn off tonight, jeez I hope the examiner sticks to the sheet coz otherwise I'm ***£%&£-:? (that's not even a word, that's how bad I am). In between that and hopefully catching the Walking Dead later I'm going to try and get enzymes and digestion revised in biology and hopefully start on the practice write up of my geography project!

Still waiting for Irish, German and Art History papers back. Really getting on my nerves, I really want the AH paper to see my total result as I'm furious over my art craftwork result.

Of course this study plan will only be in effect if I ever finish my maths homework (I'll be having nightmares about the bonus points).

peekachoo

Realistically not getting any study done today. Well I would have if my school gave the option to do PE or not, I would at least have had an hour done. -_-

For homework tonight I have to rewrite and correct the whole geography mock going to take forever. To make matters worse I also have to do two Question As from the English papers.

On the plus side I flew through my maths homework as I finally understand trigonometrical graphs, woo
Gonna at least try to learn off the last Rollenspiel tonight and get something done.

peekachoo

Got my Art History paper back today, 78% cannot even begin to understand how the craft work was marked so hard (I got 60%, my usual grade is A1) so I was afraid the history would be marked hard too. At least the history brought me up, phew

Tonight I have to write up my first draft of my geography project and learn off some Fragen for German oral tomorrow, and some maths.

Then I'm gonna revise Irish Manuscripts and Da Vinci in art history, sraith pictiur 18 and some Casablanca quotes for the comparative essay!

peekachoo

Did absolutely nothing today
so tired from the week I ended up sleeping on the couch all evening. Think I'll leave my homework until my double study in the morning and just go to bed.

Although I just remembered I have a biology exam tomorrow on digestion and respiration so I guess I'll have to go over that

peekachoo

So relieved it's Friday
So I now have all my mocks back, my first choice on CAO is biomedical sciences in UCC/CIT at 530 points last year. Bear in mind I did not study at all for these mocks and hopefully I'll get around 550 in June.

English HL - 70(B3) - hoping to bring that up to B1/A2/A1

Irish HL - 71 (B3)- excluding my oral will I'll have the results for on Monday - never thought I'd get that mark so if I got this in June I'd be delighted!

Maths HL - 41 (D3) - absolutely delighted with this!! Didn't think I'd pass as i find the course extremely challenging. Hopefully will boost this grade to a D2/D1 for June!

German HL - 68 (C1) - excluding oral which isn't done yet. Fairly happy with this, it all comes down to the comprehensions on the day although i really need to work on grammar!

Geography HL - 60 (C2) - v. disappointing as it's usually one of my A1 subjects but i did no preparation and the questions on the day really didn't suit me. Hoping for an A1 in June!

Biology HL - 72 (B3) - disappointed with this also but like geography, I didn't study. Another subject I'm aiming for an A1 in June.

Art HL - 78 - (B1) - I got an A in the history paper but unfortunately the craftwork was marked extreeeeemely hard. Aiming for an A1 in June as I'm fairly capable.

Leaves me with a grand total of 445. Although it's fairly disappointing it's around what I expected! Serious mountain to climb to boost my points by another 100 but sure we can only hope

ANYWAY today I'm going to complete my maths homework and write up the next section of my geography project. I'll make a start on my English essay also (What it means to you to be Irish...euck) but I won't be doing study as I'm leaving to see a show at 7.
Fun weekend of study ahead!

peekachoo

Unfortunately got little to no study done this weekend due to my sister being home for the first time in a few months

I did get my homework completed and
German: learned a roleplay for a class test tomorrow
Art: Irish manuscripts (Book of Kells/Durrow/Catach) for a class test tomorrow

I'll have to make up for it with loads of study during the week!

peekachoo

Made the decision today with my guidance teacher to change my first choice from Biomedical Science in UCC (530) to Biological & Biomedical Sciences in NUIM (460). The difference in points is a serious bonus although I'm still aiming for 530 to avail of the scholarship
I'm the only girl from my school applying for NUIM so I'm terrified.

Anyway in a double study today I revised Shakespearean sonnets. At home I revised kingship in Macbeth, arithmetic and financial maths.
I have a second mock maths exam next Wednesday so I have to try and get the course crammed in. The joys of HL maths <3

peekachoo

Spent about 2 hours this evening making posters for debs tickets. Damn this committee! It's worth the free tickets though

Anyway this evening I did an English Question B, calculus paper questions, the Ausserung from the German mock paper and my homework.

I missed about 6 days in the past two weeks and in that time I missed most of the fluvial project notes for geography. We're meant to be handing up a mock booklet by Friday and I'm clueless.

peekachoo

Had such a productive day today (so far)
did extra maths after school today going over trig and I've been in the books since I got home.
I went over genetics completely, wrote out 7 pages of my geography project (including the OS sketch which took me an hour!), went over Louis Le Brocquy and cubism painting styles, Sraith Pictiur #20 and more trig

peekachoo

Finishing up my study now, i was unusually motivated to work today but am now giving up and heading to bed. I got my five German roleplays revised and in my study classes tomorrow I need to revise conversation ahead of a class test tomorrow evening.
I also watched Limitless and while doing so, transferred some Irish artifacts notes into my Art History copy!
It's way past my bedtime...

peekachoo

Can't wait for paddys night, definitely in need of a break :O anyway, today I did:

Art History: took 2.5 hours and did a whole paper.
Maths: trig questions and constructions
Biology: revised skeleton and muscles
Geography: did one record sheet for the project.

What I still have to do this evening:
Biology: endocrine system and respiratory system
English: Personal Essay on what it means to me to be Irish (help!!!)
Art History: Book of Kells question
German: oral, general conversation

peekachoo

Not even going to lie and say I did anything this weekend, I haven't opened my bag since Friday.
I literally have no motivation whatsoever.

peekachoo

I have a loooooong night ahead of me.
I have a maths exam tomorrow that we have to do during our double in the morning and for an hour after school that I haven't even started revising for. Which means tonight I have to revise

Complex Numbers
Financial Maths
Differentiation
Integration
Algebra
Probability
Statistics
Geometry
Co-Ordinate Geometry
Trigonometry

Ugh and on top of that I have an art history exam tomorrow on Jack B Yeats.
The stress of LC is finally getting to me. Somewhere in between this time I have to finish and prepare my German project and do a radio talk for english, and learn off sraiths 19 & 20!

All i can say is wish me luck...

peekachoo

Maths was horrible today, just about survived

In a double free I did a practice feature article for English.
At home I revised;
Biology - ecology
Irish - 2 sraith
German - project questions

peekachoo

Went home today at half 12 because of having four frees after lunch (well double religion and two frees). I had planned on studying but I ended up painting for most of that time which is still practice for the art practical (technically )

So far this evening I finished my Cinema Bizarre scrapbook for the German oral and learned off my presentation.
Now I'm gonna finish revising ecology from yesterday, do 2 sraiths and do my maths + geography homework

Easter holidays tomorrow any other year I would be rejoicing but this year it just emphasises the inevitability of the orals
3 more months...:)

peekachoo

Coming home to the start of a two week break is de-press-ing

Gonna cover the respiratory system, biochemistry of respiration, maths constructions 1 through 10 and attempt (and surely fail) to revise indices and logs. Then I'm heading out for a few sociables

peekachoo

Did nothing today or yesterday, gonna start again tomorrow.

peekachoo

I've been avoiding this since the pres, gonna start now and update later

peekachoo

Did 6 hours today :O
- learned all Bishop quotes and did a question on her
- wrote out and learned off Art History, Gallery question
- learned statistics definitions, looked over both chapters and did some exam questions
- Irish comprehension

Later I'm going to do a geography question on culture in India (after BGT ) and if I'm in the mood I'll look at geoecology!

peekachoo

After doing 4 hours work on genetics. Never want to see it again!

peekachoo

Went over Rich and Bishop by theme and learned all the quotes

Learned German vocab for ausserung and letters

Revised Karst landscape

Still not managing more than two hours a night I'm really worrying myself