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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: Allygator on September 15, 2011, 07:03:41 pm
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What is everyone's study plan for the holidays?
I was thinking of aiming for each day
- physics exam
- chem exam
- methods exam 1
- spesh exam 2
- 2 english essays
With the maths exams alternating between exam 1 and 2 and rotating through english essays. Obviously I won't be able to do all of that every single day though. What about everyone else?
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I'm going to leave it at doing 2 exams a day (though only have two 3/4 subjects).
Even if I had more than 2 subjects, I wouldn't be doing more than 3 exams a day. It'd be just way too much to do any more. Also you wouldn't be leaving yourself enough time to relax and look over your errors thoroughly (and to go relearn stuff if you need to).
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Yeah good point. But at the same time I tend to go through them pretty quickly. Ie. I'd take about an hour for physics.
Obviously I'd do some under exam conditions as well but not all of them.
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Yeah good point. But at the same time I tend to go through them pretty quickly. Ie. I'd take about an hour for physics.
Obviously I'd do some under exam conditions as well but not all of them.
You still don't want to burn yourself out doing them, doing four or more a day you will start to do more silly mistakes on them, get tired more easily and as said before, make sure you take a break, otherwise you will hit exams with all of you fuel used up and running on the reserves.
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I might do 1-3 exams a day if i can wake up early enough and also maybe 1-2 english essays a day. Also I might look over my notes/textbook to see if im overlooking or having trouble in a topic.
Yeah good point. But at the same time I tend to go through them pretty quickly. Ie. I'd take about an hour for physics.
Obviously I'd do some under exam conditions as well but not all of them.
You still don't want to burn yourself out doing them, doing four or more a day you will start to do more silly mistakes on them, get tired more easily and as said before, make sure you take a break, otherwise you will hit exams with all of you fuel used up and running on the reserves.
^ agreed. I know someone that did the same thing and actually did burnt out in the end. One of my teachers also recommended that we should have a one-day break in the holidays for relaxation purposes.
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Yeah good point. But at the same time I tend to go through them pretty quickly. Ie. I'd take about an hour for physics.
Obviously I'd do some under exam conditions as well but not all of them.
You don't want to stop at just simply doing the exam.
I would grab hold of the opportunity to thoroughly look over your answers and reaffirm what you know and don't know. This has been discussed to death on AN before, but I believe there's not much point in doing a load of trial exams if you're not taking the time to slow down and learn from them.
I remember reading about someone on here who did 40+ exams for a subject and ended up with a poor score.
Hell, I know that I made that same mistake. I did about ~20 trial exams for the physics midyear, but got kind of slack with the exam conditions. I was getting all the questions right by the 10th exam and I understood the course damn well. By the time I got to the real exam, I wasted too much time and didn't pace myself - which resulted in a C+. A decent score that could secure me a 30+, but disappointing when I know I could have easily achieved A+.
I know I definitely won't be making that mistake a second time.
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i know that as much as vce is important you should still remember to eat properly and sleep properly.
Fact: if u dont eat enough meat you wont be able to concentrate, learn and memorise. (in saying this don't become a hardcore carnivore)
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How many exams should you be doing? As many as you can. Does this mean I should just spam exams? Yes, however quality over quantity. Doing exams is only one part. Looking over them and analysing what you got wrong is another part. Also when marking you have to mark extremely harsh. This mainly applies to spesh and methods but when you correct your exam, don't just tick it if the final answer is right and move on to the next question, check if you got all the marks because even though you got the right answer, you may have lost marks because you excluded some working detail that cost marks.
Also honestly I don't get how you can 'run out of fuel' if you study too much. This isn't some rigorous physical activity or anything, its just mental concentration. I'm sure playing video games require just as much concentration (except maybe shooters lol) and I never get tired of those...
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A certain Luffy beasted 16 physics exams on a weekend..
Im probs only gonna do about 4-5 exams a day in the holidays..
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Also honestly I don't get how you can 'run out of fuel' if you study too much. This isn't some rigorous physical activity or anything, its just mental concentration. I'm sure playing video games require just as much concentration (except maybe shooters lol) and I never get tired of those...
It's great that you can study hard for weeks on end without tiring out. That probably says you have a pretty good study technique. But refuting the idea that people can burn out from studying is ridiculous. If that was the case, why do office workers burn out? With your logic, shouldn't it really be only athletes that are burning out?
Let's face it, studying is serious business. Not only that, this is the most serious bit of Year 12. There's a lot more weight that's placed on studying than there is on playing video games. There's the pressure to do really well and get into the course you want. There's the constant stress.
I'm no psychology student, so I googled and found this: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/burnout_signs_symptoms.htm
Read through it, and you should easily see how the stuff listed there can apply to studying.
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Also honestly I don't get how you can 'run out of fuel' if you study too much. This isn't some rigorous physical activity or anything, its just mental concentration. I'm sure playing video games require just as much concentration (except maybe shooters lol) and I never get tired of those...
It's great that you can study hard for weeks on end without tiring out. That probably says you have a pretty good study technique. But refuting the idea that people can burn out from studying is ridiculous. If that was the case, why do office workers burn out? With your logic, shouldn't it really be only athletes that are burning out?
Let's face it, studying is serious business. Not only that, this is the most serious bit of Year 12. There's a lot more weight that's placed on studying than there is on playing video games. There's the pressure to do really well and get into the course you want. There's the constant stress.
I'm no psychology student, so I googled and found this: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/burnout_signs_symptoms.htm
Read through it, and you should easily see how the stuff listed there can apply to studying.
Being irritable is a sign of being burnt out (both of you). Getting burnt out is a very real thing, but with 2 months left I think you could make it OK, just take plenty of breaks and exercise. Good luck with your goal.
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This is kinda my problem, I always push myself that little bit too far, just over the edge of what I should be doing. Really to do well this holidays and this year (and in life), we need to have a good frame of mind, stay healthy and don't over do it!
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After learning from my Unit 3 experience I guess I am not going to spam as much trials as I did in unit 3. Instead I am going to go back to my textbooks and solve exam type questions and go over all the worked examples.
Trials wise, my ultimate goal Sunday-Monday:
- 2 Further trials, one of them being exam 1 one of them being exam2.
- 1 Methods Exam 1 one day and Exam 2 the next
- 1 Physics trial
- 3 Essays a week. (English)
- Legal... meh
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Being irritable is a sign of being burnt out (both of you)
oops, sorry if I ended up sounding rude in my post - didn't really intend for that.
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A certain Luffy beasted 16 physics exams on a weekend..
Im probs only gonna do about 4-5 exams a day in the holidays..
Beats Tarun's record I guess, hahaha, but wow are you serious, that's 8 exams per day! :P
btw, just because everyone's talking about it, WHAT IS BURN OUT?! LIKE TO ME IT'S A CAR RACING GAME! D:
obviously you guys understand it as meaning something different please do elaborate
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anyways, my study plans? hmm, well I intend to do as much as I feel is required, I'm not the type of person that plans ahead, I don't even have a Student Planner (decided I can just mentally keep track of things) - yeah I don't know when my SACs are, I just kinda find out as they come kinda thing :D - so with exams it's the same, I'll set out a cycle, for example Specialist Maths, Methods, Physics, Chem, English and just loop through that, doing 2 spesh papers (ex 1 and ex 2) and then 2 methods and then a physics and then a chemistry...etc (: whenever i feel like it or I have time
so some days I might get done 5 or 6 some days I might get done 1 or 2...that kinda thing :)
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What is everyone's study plan for the holidays?
I was thinking of aiming for each day
- physics exam
- chem exam
- methods exam 1
- spesh exam 2
- 2 english essays
With the maths exams alternating between exam 1 and 2 and rotating through english essays. Obviously I won't be able to do all of that every single day though. What about everyone else?
I think that's ridiculous, I mean seriously , physics exam +chem exam 3 hours total
meth 1 (one hour)
spesh 2 (one hour 1/2)
2 english essays (2 hours)
7 and 1/2 hours.. minimum ... Ouch, May God be with you... Gl sis.
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A certain Luffy beasted 16 physics exams on a weekend..
Im probs only gonna do about 4-5 exams a day in the holidays..
Beats Tarun's record I guess, hahaha, but wow are you serious, that's 8 exams per day! :P
btw, just because everyone's talking about it, WHAT IS BURN OUT?! LIKE TO ME IT'S A CAR RACING GAME! D:
obviously you guys understand it as meaning something different please do elaborate
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anyways, my study plans? hmm, well I intend to do as much as I feel is required, I'm not the type of person that plans ahead, I don't even have a Student Planner (decided I can just mentally keep track of things) - yeah I don't know when my SACs are, I just kinda find out as they come kinda thing :D - so with exams it's the same, I'll set out a cycle, for example Specialist Maths, Methods, Physics, Chem, English and just loop through that, doing 2 spesh papers (ex 1 and ex 2) and then 2 methods and then a physics and then a chemistry...etc (: whenever i feel like it or I have time
so some days I might get done 5 or 6 some days I might get done 1 or 2...that kinda thing :)
You should probably calm down...... :P
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A certain Luffy beasted 16 physics exams on a weekend..
Im probs only gonna do about 4-5 exams a day in the holidays..
Beats Tarun's record I guess, hahaha, but wow are you serious, that's 8 exams per day! :P
btw, just because everyone's talking about it, WHAT IS BURN OUT?! LIKE TO ME IT'S A CAR RACING GAME! D:
obviously you guys understand it as meaning something different please do elaborate
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anyways, my study plans? hmm, well I intend to do as much as I feel is required, I'm not the type of person that plans ahead, I don't even have a Student Planner (decided I can just mentally keep track of things) - yeah I don't know when my SACs are, I just kinda find out as they come kinda thing :D - so with exams it's the same, I'll set out a cycle, for example Specialist Maths, Methods, Physics, Chem, English and just loop through that, doing 2 spesh papers (ex 1 and ex 2) and then 2 methods and then a physics and then a chemistry...etc (: whenever i feel like it or I have time
so some days I might get done 5 or 6 some days I might get done 1 or 2...that kinda thing :)
maybe thats why i beat you on the last spech sac :P
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I finally understand why I'm kind of struggling with studying right now but not stressed at all.
I'm burnt out :(
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btw, just because everyone's talking about it, WHAT IS BURN OUT?! LIKE TO ME IT'S A CAR RACING GAME! D:
obviously you guys understand it as meaning something different please do elaborate
It's the opposite of "Paradise". I guess simply put it's when you get stressed out for too long and you just get that demotivated. It can really "take you down" and out for a bit. You wouldn't want to get "dominated". The link I linked to before would explain it better than I can - obviously there's a bit more "criterion" involved.
Burnout, on the other hand, is about not enough. Being burned out means feeling empty, devoid of motivation, and beyond caring. People experiencing burnout often don’t see any hope of positive change in their situations. If excessive stress is like drowning in responsibilities, burnout is being all dried up. One other difference between stress and burnout: While you’re usually aware of being under a lot of stress, you don’t always notice burnout when it happens.
Luckily I've never burnt myself out (came close to it in Term 1 :/), but I guess we are all at risk of it.
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What is everyone's study plan for the holidays?
I was thinking of aiming for each day
- physics exam
- chem exam
- methods exam 1
- spesh exam 2
- 2 english essays
With the maths exams alternating between exam 1 and 2 and rotating through english essays. Obviously I won't be able to do all of that every single day though. What about everyone else?
I think that's ridiculous, I mean seriously , physics exam +chem exam 3 hours total
meth 1 (one hour)
spesh 2 (one hour 1/2)
2 english essays (2 hours)
7 and 1/2 hours.. minimum ... Ouch, May God be with you... Gl sis.
Hah yeah it's probably a bit excessive. But I'm not going to be doing this every day at all. I'm also going to take 2 days completely off :D woop!
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how is everyone who is planning to do 3+ exams a day plan to review these and go over them? Wouldn't you be better to do 1-2 per day and spend the extra time reviewing your answers, making them more succinct and detailed etc?
My aim is to do about 5 english, 5 econoimcs, 5 international studies, 2 further maths and 2 literature exams over the holidays, but make sure that I review each one, notice where I went wrong and how I can improve my answers and answering technique and areas I need to study more for, rather than cramming in 4 exams per day and not having time to really look at what can be fundamentally improved in terms of knowledge and structure of my essays and answers.
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@chrisjb
would depend on subject wouldnt it?
maths/science dont require that much analysis...i think...
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lol, study plans always fail for me. I'll just have an overestimated and unacheiveable list of what I want done by the end of it, and then fall short knowing I have done a bit of work. A definite thing 'to do' is to pretty much start the physics course though.
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@chrisjb
would depend on subject wouldnt it?
maths/science dont require that much analysis...i think...
ah yeah, good point. I suppose with maths/science the focus would be more on doing practice questions... (Just looked at everyone's sigs and realised I'm the only humanities student posting in this thread on this forum :P)
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yeah haha
anyway, how do we review english practice exams?
are you guys going to send it to your teachers or something?
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yeah haha
anyway, how do we review english practice exams?
are you guys going to send it to your teachers or something?
im lucky my tutor is like assistant to chief examiner. ie a marker :)
i guess a lot of my friends will just be spamming their teachers..
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One Methods exam
One further exam
One biol or chem exam
One eng essay
Whatever is left over from a total threshold of 8 hours, I shall use on reading, rewriting notes etc.
I must say... the OP has inspired me to be a NERD as well LOLOL
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yeah haha
anyway, how do we review english practice exams?
are you guys going to send it to your teachers or something?
im lucky my tutor is like assistant to chief examiner. ie a marker :)
i guess a lot of my friends will just be spamming their teachers..
He/she must be costing a fortune! :O
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A certain Luffy beasted 16 physics exams on a weekend..
Im probs only gonna do about 4-5 exams a day in the holidays..
Beats Tarun's record I guess, hahaha, but wow are you serious, that's 8 exams per day! :P
btw, just because everyone's talking about it, WHAT IS BURN OUT?! LIKE TO ME IT'S A CAR RACING GAME! D:
obviously you guys understand it as meaning something different please do elaborate
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anyways, my study plans? hmm, well I intend to do as much as I feel is required, I'm not the type of person that plans ahead, I don't even have a Student Planner (decided I can just mentally keep track of things) - yeah I don't know when my SACs are, I just kinda find out as they come kinda thing :D - so with exams it's the same, I'll set out a cycle, for example Specialist Maths, Methods, Physics, Chem, English and just loop through that, doing 2 spesh papers (ex 1 and ex 2) and then 2 methods and then a physics and then a chemistry...etc (: whenever i feel like it or I have time
so some days I might get done 5 or 6 some days I might get done 1 or 2...that kinda thing :)
happened to me on the january hols when i finished the accounting course in 10 days
i was physically exhausted and ate ice cream and watched movies the whole day
i think that's what a 'burn out' is, aside from being a very sick car racing game
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Planning to...
- Alternate each day between exam 1 + 2 for Further
- 1 Accounting exam each day (once summaries are complete, if not completed before holidays)
- 1 Economics exam each day (same as above)
- Physics will most likely be sitting in my locker at school
- Obtain a basic knowledge of what will be asked on Englang exams and maybe work on a few essays
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maybe thats why i beat you on the last spech sac :P
LOL! you beat my by one lousy mark :P
But it's the ranking that matters, and I'm fairly happy with my mark cause that SAC really eliminated a lot of competition at the top, I think about 5 people were in contention for the top ranking, but after that SAC, it's really only me and "Luffy" now
Personally I doubt that the next SAC will matter much though, it's worth too little
Oh, and I'm only ahead of "Luffy" by one mark as well, which is risky, but I'm confident that we would both do equally well on the exam, so I guess it doesn't really matter in the end :)
happened to me on the january hols when i finished the accounting course in 10 days
i was physically exhausted and ate ice cream and watched movies the whole day
i think that's what a 'burn out' is, aside from being a very sick car racing game
Oh right, I understand now, I guess I feel that way sometimes but it's always good to have a break once in a while :D
As long as we can get motivated again :)
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I'M GOING TO LEARN UNIT 4 CHEM AND BIO
(NOT TROLLING)
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I'M GOING TO LEARN UNIT 4 CHEM AND BIO
(NOT TROLLING)
Likewise.
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Relax. Next year is y12. -.-
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22 lectures to summarize, an essay to write and FIFA12 to play.
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Relax. Next year is y12. -.-
I do not believe this one bit.
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How many english essays do you guys plan on writing from now up until exam day?
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How many english essays do you guys plan on writing from now up until exam day?
I'm thinking 10+ for each, so at least 30 all up.
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How many english essays do you guys plan on writing from now up until exam day?
Just wrote 3 today (school trial), maybe another 20-30? I think my context needs least work atm :)
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hacky sack and study
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Hoping for one essay a day (alternate between Keats and Hamlet) but I'll settle for one every two days, probably.
I'll be summarising the entire year's worth of philosophy and renaissance, and memorising about 150 quotes and some dates.
Won't do much in terms of methods (bottom 2!) but will probably start getting my bound notes together (I know it's late. Don't judge me.) :P
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Writing paragraphs of English/Literature here and there.
Refine my English/Literature
Study A+ Essays
Refine English/Literature
Do about 5-10 essays (English/Literature) Together
Refine Some More
DO VCAA Exams for Economics (Memorize some stats , which is not alot, been doing it for awhile and memorize some stuff that is needed)
Do Chemistry
Do Math Methods Exam ( 1 a day, because cramming and practising is the only way to get better at this kind of thing, I"m a dumbass)
Refine English/Literature...
Look at old English/Literature work and mark it.
Read some books
Some Piano
Go Out, once a week to refresh the mind.
Sleep
Eat
Dream of 99.95
And Dream of 99.95