bluejaymraz's Study Log.

Proka18 wrote: »

tips for geog? got 56 in pre thought it would be worse, just cant seem to recall stuff in this god forsaken subject!

There's not really a lot of advice you can give :L Make sure your investigation is up to scratch because it's seemingly fairly easy to pick up marks in. The worst part I think is the regional section, there's not a lot you can do but learn it off. Some of it does slightly overlap with the human elective if that's what yout doing. There ate parts of the human that overlap as well. I suppose it's just a matter of learning it off and recognising the questions when they come up, papers is your best friend for that.

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Yet again, I didn't get up early. Set the alarm for 9:15, heard it but was too lazy to get up. Only managed to drag myself out of bed just before 11. I will listen to the alarm tomorrow, I seriously will.


Today's achievements:
-French: myself, family, housework, house, favourite room, town, subjects, school facilities, school rules. Nothing new, just revision of stuff I've already learned
-Geography: waterfall, delta, drainage patterns
-Accounting: depreciation question cost method, tabular statement
-Maths: finished the rest of the 2011 Paper 1, the bits I could do anyway so I think it was q 5,6 some of 7 and about 3/4 of 8
-Biology: Food


I think I'm about done for the night. I wish I could go on but I've hit a bit of a slump. Hopefully I can get up tomorrow morning and push on another bit.

Turns out I wasn't finished for the night. I decided I'd plow on through the characteristics of life and cell structure in biology while half watching the Ireland match.


I'm finished now though. I swear.

Again I ignored the alarm at 9:15....... :L Told myself that I'd get up in 10 minutes but fell asleep for another hour and a half instead.

-French oral: transition year, typical day
-geography: investigation, finished off human interaction with the river Rhine, revised physical/primary/secondary in Dublin region
-biology: diffusion and osmosis, lymph system, homeostasis, cell diversity

I managed to make it out of bed semi-early this morning \o/

Haven't got a whole lot done this morning so far and probably won't get a load more done over the weekend because we have relatives from Cavan down for their annual Easter visit.

All I've done this morning:
-French oral: school facilities, uniform, rules, after the L.C., typical day, pocket money, fashion, the environment

BrownBear11 wrote: »

God help ya! :pac:

Now now, you know that by mocking me you're only mocking yourself. I can't help it though: I'm one half Cavan, one half Mullingar, you can't get much worse than that! It makes for an awful accent, anything with a "th" in it's a nightmare!


Study update:
-Geography: tectonics definitions, population definitions, factors influencing pop. distribution, France case study on pop. density/distribution, demographic transition model

BrownBear11 wrote: »

Course it could be worse, ya could be fully Cavan

At least I'd be able to pronounce words with "t"s in them properly. During TY our English teacher used to give us all a fierce slagging for saying "dis, dat, dese, dem, dose" instead of "this, that, these, them, those". Half the time I can't say "three" either, it comes out as "tree".

Poor you and your Cavan-ness :P

-Irish oral; sraiths 8,13,17, hobbies, sport, social media, media (both tied into hobbies), holidays
-Biology: cell division, classification and heredity, started onto DNA and RNA
-Geography: factors affecting fertility rates in developing countries and China case study

Not a whole lot got done over the weekend but I am seriously going to knuckle down over the next week and get stuck in. I will get up early tomorrow!!

Considering it was 11 when I crawled out of bed and about 12 by the time I started, I did manage to get a nice little bit done.

-French oral: conditional questions (lotto, principal, taoiseach, minister for environment)
-English: intro and first paragraph of "Macbeth" essay on imagery
-Accounting: two 60 mark published account questions
-Maths: the circle revision and exam questions (2 of which completely stumped me)
-Geography: two sketches for investigation

Never updated this yesterday. I didn't really get a whole lot done seeing as I did a spot of shopping (even though I didn't buy anything) and then spent aaaages picking out books to but with an Amazon voucher. So here's what I did do:
-English: paragraph and a half of Macbeth essay
-Geography: line transect graph for investigation, plate tectonics

Today was more productive, however:
-Irish oral: 3 sraiths, unemployment, drinking
-English: wrote out and learned Plath notes, read over Bishop and Hopkins
-Maths: 5 or 6 complex number questions
-Geography: volcanoes, volcanic case study, that kind of thing
-Biology: genetic crosses, classification of organisms, protista, viruses

Didn't really get a whole lot done over the weekend. Decided that I'd take a semi-break before we go back and the pressure really piles on.

Yesterday:
-Irish: read through poetry, read over notes on geibheann and colscaradh and learned the 2 poets

Today:
-Irish oral: sraiths 4, 5, 10, 18. That's them all revised over the past 2 weeks so I'm happy enough. Typical day, last summer
-Accounting: creditors control account q
-English: setting in cultural context
-Maths: looked over differentiation homework to make sure that I remember how to do it.

I had planned to do more but I was sick with a splitting headache which was very unusual because I never get headaches.

I haven't really done a whole lot since Tuesday. The closer we get to the orals the less I feel like studying and the harder it is to bring myself to do it.

Today:
-French oral: television, technology/internet, after lc
-English: QB homework, read over Plath and Hopkins
-Biology: fungi
-Geography: went over volcanoes, learned half of earthquakes


Not a huge amount done all things considered. Hopefully tomorrow will be much better work wise.

French oral was grand. No difficult questions really and no conditional ones either so I was delighted with that. The examiner was so nice as well, smiling away the whole time so she was. I'm way more pleased with it than I expected to be.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the mock Irish orals I did yesterday after school and this morning. The less said about them the better, let's just say they were a train wreck. Although today's examiner said that he would be surprised if I didn't get an A in the real thing. I haven't the foggiest how he came to that conclusion though because the oral was my worst nightmare and I turned into a snivelling, not far from all out bawling mess.

Study wise, not a whole lot done over the past few days, the most I've done was whatever we got for homework and then a slight bit extra:
-Biology: 2005 and 2006 short questions, parts of long questions on cell structure and diffusion and osmosis
-Accounting: 2005 incomplete records question
-Maths: 2 questions from sample B paper 2
-Irish: read over 2 sraiths last night. Had planned to do the rest of them today and tomorrow but after my shambolic orals, the teacher actually told me to not touch Irish over the weekend, to just lie on the sofa for 2 days and do nothing. She also advised me to take some vitamin tablets......

Hmmmm

So until today my bank holiday progress was a bit slow study wise because I was away for most of yesterday.

Friday/Saturday:
-Maths: integration homework questions, sample C paper 1 and 2

Sunday:
-Geography: learned half of a soil forming processes essay and half of a brown earths essay

Today:
-Geography: finished learning essay
-Maths: 12 of the basic-ish constructions
-English: personal essay of freedom that's due for Wednesday
-French: opinion question due for tomorrow morning
-Accounting: finished off an incomplete records question that we had for homework, did another incomplete records question as revision
-Biology: the endocrine system, the senses

I finally had a productive day for once \o/

yournerd wrote: »

What's your worst and best subjects?

Worst is definitely maths, followed fairly closely by French. Picking my best is another kettle of fish altogether, I have good bits in al of them. If I had to pick one though I'd have to go with either Biology or accounting, probably because it's just a matter of learning them off/practice. Although I do have a serious passion for English......



Work was scarce on the homework front this evening so I had time to get it 40 minutes of piano (with a very high pitched metronome :L) along with:
- Accounting: published 100 marker
- Maths: rest of constructions, statistics
-English: Cultural Context-setting, classes, role of men/women
-French: grammar-tenses etc.

Over the last few days I not done a whole lot

-English: short story, religion/morality for Cultural Context
-Maths: all of probability (I am now adequately confused)
-Biology: Enzymes, Scientific Method, Fungi, bacteria, amoeba, viruses, few experiments
-Accounting: 2 60 mark cash flow questions and a published account
-Irish: An Lasair Choille
-Geography: read over Dublin region, learned physical/primary in the West