Aspiring's LC 2014 Study Log

Aspiring

I'm starting early I know but it's necessary, the summer test were a reality check for me as I realised I haven't been working hard enough at all and I've been too cocky. This will be my first time properly studying per-se as I haven't been much of a studying person up to now.

Anyway here are my subjects and my goals beside them.
English HL : A2
Maths HL : B1/A2
Irish HL : C1
Physics HL : A1
Business HL : A1
Accounting HL : A1
Applied Maths HL : A2/A1 (optimistic )
French HL : B1

Basically I'm hoping for 550-600 ish points which I know is very optimistic but I feel it's possible.

Anyway will post up here whenever I'm studying and what I've studied

I CAN DO THIS

thegreatescape

Honestly, I don't think it's a very good idea for you to start this early. I'm in 6th year now and with my leaving cert in two days, studying has become such a nightmare that I wish I was back in your position of having three months to do anything that doesn't involve stressing over! I know you think it may give you an advantage or help you out because of your summer exams but honestly, I think it will be counterproductive as you will end up resenting studying by Christmas of sixth year if you start now. Fair enough if you want to do a bit in August but seriously why spend some of the time you have off to do whatever you want studying?

AtomicKoala

thegreatescape wrote: »

Honestly, I don't think it's a very good idea for you to start this early. I'm in 6th year now and with my leaving cert in two days, studying has become such a nightmare that I wish I was back in your position of having three months to do anything that doesn't involve stressing over! I know you think it may give you an advantage or help you out because of your summer exams but honestly, I think it will be counterproductive as you will end up resenting studying by Christmas of sixth year if you start now. Fair enough if you want to do a bit in August but seriously why spend some of the time you have off to do whatever you want studying?

To be fair, if they even does 30 minutes a day over a summer he'll have 40 hours done. It'll mean they won't have to worry about Physics definitions or French verb conjugation next year (for example), and can focus on the real stuff. Putting down the foundations really.

Granted for all I know they could be learning off Irish essays but I doubt that.

thegreatescape

That's very true too! All I know is from my experience is that I wanted to start last August, but I didn't because a friend talked me out of it. I know a few who did and ended up hating studying and didn't bother after christmas and did worse in their mocks because of this.

Aspiring

Cheers for the input lads.

I just mean 20-30 mins a day, maybe nothing at all some days. If I can get all my physics experiments and definitions done and business and accounting itll save me a lot of time next year where I want to focus on maths a lot. As for French I'll just try take a verb a day or something which should give a good foundation for the language which I only grasped lately.

Cheers

RedSeven7

I'm in the same position as you, but you are far more organised, I think making a study log is a great first step!! :pac:
I hope the studying goes well for you over the summer, I plan on doing a good bit, but I just cannot motivate myself at ALL!
Any motivating secrets - let me know!!
I'd love to join the 600 club but I think it's already too late... haha
Best of luck to you!

Aspiring

RedSeven7 wrote: »

I'm in the same position as you, but you are far more organised, I think making a study log is a great first step!! :pac:
I hope the studying goes well for you over the summer, I plan on doing a good bit, but I just cannot motivate myself at ALL!
Any motivating secrets - let me know!!
I'd love to join the 600 club but I think it's already too late... haha
Best of luck to you!

I haven't started, weather is too nice I need a wet day to get going haha.
I'd be extremely happy with 550 myself as I feel that's the most I'll need for the courses I'm interested in.

My motivation secret - Think about where you want to be, if you want to end up doing what you want and being the best you can be or doing something you really don't want to do. Good luck haha

Crazyteacher

I would recommend you get outside while you can. Plenty of grey miserable days ahead to start doing a bit . Well done on making this decision

Leaving Cert Student

One simply does not learn definitions over the summer and still remember them all in 12 months time

HugsiePie

Enjoy yourself, you'll be sick of the LC before youve even started it in September.

petrichor

I'm doing leaving cert 2014 and I'm planning on studying a bit this summer too.

Honestly, in 6th year, I'm going to be wishing I did some study over summer, not wishing I relaxed. I get stressed very easily and I think putting in 20 minutes a day to drill in definitions is the best bet for me. :P

Aiming for 550+ too, good luck with your studying!!

Aspiring

petrichor wrote: »

I'm doing leaving cert 2014 and I'm planning on studying a bit this summer too.

Honestly, in 6th year, I'm going to be wishing I did some study over summer, not wishing I relaxed. I get stressed very easily and I think putting in 20 minutes a day to drill in definitions is the best bet for me. :P

Aiming for 550+ too, good luck with your studying!!

Thanks good luck to you too

Dont see any harm in studying the odd bit

Glee_GG

Theres nothing wrong per say about studying over summer, I never did it though and I know one girl who did and really it did her more damage than good because she was already wrecked and burnt out in september. I have noticed that lots of people who do plan to do it say they'll learn definitions and experiments as if next june there going to remember them, after a few weeks its nearly like your looking at something brand new again since you've covered so much new stuff in the mean time so really I don't see it being much good to you. Everyone talks about how they feel they dont have enough time in 6th year to study but you do. Start in september and get yourself into it and you get everything done, its when you decide to start after the mocks that you have a problem, especially if your looking for anything high.

Aspiring

Good lordy lord I completely forgot about this.

Will get started posting ASAP, doing well in the big LC so far anyway. Finding it hard to find time to study with homework going on till 10 or 11 most nights, hopefully will have more time in the future.

Anyway the only revision I did today was accounting, a farm account in fact.

Aspiring

I am a joke haha. Just realised if I don't start studying I wont't end up with the future I wan't so, going to try do 5 hours a week starting the coming week

Aspiring

Did four accounting questions, marginal and absorption what ya call em's. getting a lot quicker at them now got them each question done within 15 mins
Studied the European Union for business mainly the policies, I figure if I can get a grasp on the most boring chapter on the course I'm off to a good start
Tomorrow I will try to attack an old accounting friend, Suspense. *shudders*.

Aspiring

Well I did some suspense today for accounting. It seems its not as bad as it used to be Seeing things as debt/credit and people as debtor/creditor rather than the way it used to be (learning off the layout from past questions).

Need to start learning my physics experiments, will try get 2 done tomorrow and should have them all nailed down twice over for the christmas tests

Aspiring

Didn't get much homework so got a good bit of study done

English: Revised comparative notes
Irish: Learned vocab
Business: Short Questions
Accounting: Service Firm 100mk question

Aspiring

Accounting: 1 Service question, 1 club. Both 100 marks.

I realise to anybody reading this it would seem this is looking somewhat like an accounting study thread with the majority of the study being there. The reason is that accounting is one of the subjects I want an A1 in and also if I don't practice them I know I'll forget so I've decided I'll set out a plan, dun dun dunnn.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
- 2 60 mark accounting exam questions each day / 1 80 or 100 mark question (depends on other study)
- Physics (Definitions Monday, Experiments Wednesday, Exam Question Friday)
- French. With all the soul destroying ability of the other two French will provide some time away from the calculator, and I like learning French for some reason.
-Applied maths. I need to start studying this, been dossing for ages and I used to be decent enough. Will try aim aim for 1 exam paper each session.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday:
-Irish. 40 vocab pieces each week , the seanfhocail (spelling?) 1 or 2 a week, the poetry, lots more. Possibly most difficult.
-Business. Short questions Tuesday, should get 2 years of a SQ done in a half hour. Thursday 1 ABQ (units 1,2,3) God I hate ABQ's haha. Saturday pure marking scheme learning. I'll aim to learn 1 question long question a day (a,b, c)
-English. I love English so this should provide a nice break after the other two. Tuesday Poetry (quotes, my opinions, etc). Thursday, I'm just going to practice writing as quickly and neatly as possible for 30-45 mins. I'll find something to write I just need to improve my writing speed, it has gotten a lot slower since JC. Saturday, Comparative I'll learn the notes we have and focus on the links between our studied material.
Maths - I need to sort this out. Been very lazy in maths and have the ability to do well just won't study. I'm going to set up a hardback of sorts for maths stuff. Could decide to do any topic any of the days so I won't put anything down.

Well that's it. This is me telling myself I'm going to do this, a mental note of my willingness to change

It's ambitious, quite a change from the usual me. As you have noticed Sunday is now a free day, whereas up to now it has been a day to do all my homework which simply isn't effective!

I'll try this for at least two weeks, and if its too much I can change it.

Aspiring

Got started with the above plan today, went better than expected.

Accounting - 1x 80 mark question
Physics - Wrote out notes on the electron/cathode ray tubes/x-rays and the like
Applied Maths - Actually did a question. First time I've ever sat down to do a question that isn't homework in applied maths.
I had to check my book a few times but I understood so we're getting somewhere. Think it was 2012 or 2013 question 2 (Relative velocity)
French - Practiced oral work, I'll try get a listening done later then correct it after.

Aspiring

Went to UCD today so all homework + study that was to be done Saturday will now be done on Sunday.

Aspiring

All I did was English today, Didn't get half the stuff I wanted to do done. Next time

Aspiring

Did everything on the list today and yesterday (even maths, who knew it could be studied!)

Rebecca G.

I am finally doing my leaving cert I am 23

Aspiring

Rebecca G. wrote: »

I am finally doing my leaving cert I am 23

What a random place to make such a statement haha But good luck, and what made you wait this long?

Aspiring

Becoming overwhelmed with flash cards haha, making 20-30 new ones a day for business but its working!

At the moment here's how I stand:
Irish - Not so good
English - Happy
Maths - Could be better
Physics - Happy but I'm just not studying it enough, dropping back to B's/C's after A's last year
Business - Happy Every class seems 100x easier now that I actually study it, going great.
Accounting - Happy
French - Doing very little work, want to get to at least C1 standard
Applied Maths - Simply not putting the work in. It's in my top 6 so yeah.. just need to cop on but there's not much resources other than the teacher.

Well that's where I am, I'm in no place to set goals for the mocks yet but I've found the whole goal setting thing does work.

Plan for the next two weeks (modified for christmas exams):
Business - Short Questions - All of them learned
Accounting - Revise Suspense and Published. Brush up on theory across the board
English - Should probably look over poetry and Macbeth, not sure what's coming up
Maths - Differentiation, Integration Logs. (especially the ones with sin,cos,tan and the e ones.
Physics - 1.5 hours a day on definitions + experiments. Need to get this back up to A standard
Irish - Christ almighty I have a lot to do in the next 2 weeks. 13-ish Sraithpicteorí, Díospóriacht, lots more.
Applied Maths - I know myself and my goals with this.
French - I'll brush up on verbs and essay writing technique not sure what exactly....

So yeah probably a good time to put up the aul Christmas test goals*...
Accounting - A1 , if I don't it will be as excruciatingly painful as clicking pens in a silent room (quite annoying). Been studying a lot I know everything well *cough* apart from suspense *cough*
Business - A1 , It's a short question test. No excuse for not getting at least 95%
Maths - B3 , I would be incredibly pleased if I managed this. I haven't worked much for maths but intend to.
Physics - A2 , I'm starting to grow nauseous of my lack of effort in Physics this year. Time to get back up to where I was.
Applied Maths - C1 , Ah I'll manage it
French - C1 , Not in the top 6 soooo I'll be happy if it stays like that all year to be perfectly honest
English - A2/B1 , All depends really, anything could happen.
Irish - C3 , Why I still labour through honours Irish I don't know, but I might as well keep it till the mocks. We have an oral test too so I'll just speak really slowly through my Sraithpictuirí hehe.

* : Results may be slightly on the optimistic side.

Lets get started then shall we

Aspiring

Haven't posted in a while, been studying pretty much all Irish the last good while.
Will start to post again now that things are back on track.

Aspiring

So yeah, just preparing material for tomorrow's cramming session. I'll revise what I've crammed this time, that seems to be a win-win situation. Christmas tests start Monday

Already almost passed Irish as we've already done our oral and listening and I'm at around 35% (she gave us our results), so just need to get the exam right.
Planning to learn about 10-15 business long q's between now and Monday, many cups of coffee will be had.
French is the only other problem subject then really...going to learn off some phrases I can throw into any reaction question, need to work on the aul' writing aspect of French

These are looking to be some of the easiest tests in years, guess it shows what a small bit of study does

Note to self: This is our last cramming session, can't be cramming for the LC

Aspiring

Well only 3 tests left. Going reasonably well, looking forward to finishing tomorrow

Aspiring

Well at the time of posting right now I only have 4 tests back, will post the rest up once I have them, my goals I set before are in brackets beside what I got:

Irish - C2 . (C3 goal)
English -
Maths -
French - C2 (C1 goal, still have another part in the test to do)
Business - A1 (A1 goal)
Physics - A2 (A2 goal)
Accounting -
Applied Maths -

Probably most surprised with Irish, still another part in the test left and I've surpassed my goal
Looking forward to getting the other 4 in my top 6 back so I can have a good idea where I'm at, pretty happy so far with the A1 and A2 in the back pocket.

Aspiring

Well had the last test today (maths), went a lot better than expected and I'm really optimistic

I was quite silly and didn't realise I couldn't edit posts after a certain amount of time, so I will simply post up all results when they are back. After tomorrow applied maths will be the only one not back.