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Title: How do you guys study??
Post by: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 09:10:42 pm: Hey guys!I just joined this forum! ^^ heehee
so!! 85days til exams!!! O_O
How do you guys manage your time??? Study effectively but you can relax as well~
I'm aiming for at least enter score of 93... however i kinda dont see that happening... T_T
Also im an ESL student so I'm not confident at all...>_<
Please give me some advice!! Thank you!!~~ :smitten:
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on August 04, 2009, 09:11:46 pm: Quote from: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 09:10:42 pm
Hey guys!I just joined this forum! ^^ heehee
so!! 85days til exams!!! O_O
How do you guys manage your time??? Study effectively but you can relax as well~
I'm aiming for at least enter score of 93... however i kinda dont see that happening... T_T
Also im an ESL student so I'm not confident at all...>_<
Please give me some advice!! Thank you!!~~ :smitten:

that shouldn't have any effect on your confidence.
do a lot of practice exams
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: vexx on August 04, 2009, 09:51:42 pm: Just write notes out by hand and read/rewrite unsure definitions or do questions in your book (if chemistry/maths).
Then

PRACTICE EXAMS!

(from my one midyear experience..err)
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 04, 2009, 10:36:02 pm: When I cbs (most days) I study in front of a computer (efficiency decreased by 99%)

When I actually want to study (for mid years or something) I turn off the computer and try to keep it off for as long as possible so I don't watch Anime.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 10:39:44 pm: Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 10:36:02 pm
When I cbs (most days) I study in front of a computer (efficiency decreased by 99%)

When I actually want to study (for mid years or something) I turn off the computer and try to keep it off for as long as possible so I don't watch Anime.

Woo!! Love anime!! XD anyway its no time thinking about that right now... definitely watching them after exams!!! lol
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: IntoTheNewWorld on August 04, 2009, 11:32:20 pm: Quote from: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 10:39:44 pm
Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 10:36:02 pm
When I cbs (most days) I study in front of a computer (efficiency decreased by 99%)

When I actually want to study (for mid years or something) I turn off the computer and try to keep it off for as long as possible so I don't watch Anime.

Woo!! Love anime!! XD anyway its no time thinking about that right now... definitely watching them after exams!!! lol

Anime is inversely proportional to study score （＞。＜）　Maybe I shouldn't have gotten that ~300 gigs of anime...?
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on August 04, 2009, 11:43:20 pm: Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 11:32:20 pm
Quote from: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 10:39:44 pm
Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 10:36:02 pm
When I cbs (most days) I study in front of a computer (efficiency decreased by 99%)

When I actually want to study (for mid years or something) I turn off the computer and try to keep it off for as long as possible so I don't watch Anime.

Woo!! Love anime!! XD anyway its no time thinking about that right now... definitely watching them after exams!!! lol

Anime is inversely proportional to study score （＞。＜）　Maybe I shouldn't have gotten that ~300 gigs of anime...?

i have 300 gigs of porn.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: kurrymuncher on August 05, 2009, 12:02:19 am: Quote from: Flaming_Arrow on August 04, 2009, 11:43:20 pm

i have 300 gigs of animalporn.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: mypurpleundercracka on August 05, 2009, 12:22:26 am: ^^

lol
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: GoodGuys on August 05, 2009, 11:08:52 am: Quote from: Flaming_Arrow on August 04, 2009, 11:43:20 pm
Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 11:32:20 pm
Quote from: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 10:39:44 pm
Quote from: SmRandmAzn on August 04, 2009, 10:36:02 pm
When I cbs (most days) I study in front of a computer (efficiency decreased by 99%)

When I actually want to study (for mid years or something) I turn off the computer and try to keep it off for as long as possible so I don't watch Anime.

Woo!! Love anime!! XD anyway its no time thinking about that right now... definitely watching them after exams!!! lol

Anime is inversely proportional to study score （＞。＜）　Maybe I shouldn't have gotten that ~300 gigs of anime...?

i have 300 gigs of porn.

^^
is that all??
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: TonyHem on August 05, 2009, 11:10:37 am: Play games
Then play more games
Then feel bad for not doing any work
Promise myself to start homework like 1 hour later
and then open book and study by doing lots of questions.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: JuzzLee on August 19, 2009, 01:06:08 pm: Quote from: TonyHem on August 05, 2009, 11:10:37 am
Play games
Then play more games
Then feel bad for not doing any work
Promise myself to start homework like 1 hour later
and then open book and study by doing lots of questions.

that's so true
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: QuantumJG on August 20, 2009, 10:20:19 am: Quote from: namidaBOA on August 04, 2009, 09:10:42 pm
Hey guys!I just joined this forum! ^^ heehee
so!! 85days til exams!!! O_O
How do you guys manage your time??? Study effectively but you can relax as well~
I'm aiming for at least enter score of 93... however i kinda dont see that happening... T_T
Also im an ESL student so I'm not confident at all...>_<
Please give me some advice!! Thank you!!~~ :smitten:

what subjects are you doing?

Gee only 85 days left for you guys? I start my second semester exams around about that time (so for me its like only 85 days left for me actually being a first year student).

Don't feel as though you can't manage 93. I wanted an 95 but thought that after my performance in english my chances would be slim, I also didn't achieve my best ENTER because I was tired, really, really tired. With Mid-Year exams I had a fair amount of energy and spend ages trying to perfect myself for physics (A+ for mid-year) whereas at the end of the year I put in half the effort and got an A.

The main thing with VCE is that now you guys are going to feel a lot of pressure, with finishing up on SAC's and doing practice exam after practice exam, you are also trying to comprehend that you are finishing school. Everything overloads and you just get tired. To try and avoid this you guys should start reviewing stuff in your subjects around about now so the pressure will drop a bit (yep I left my review of stuff to far too late).
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on December 01, 2009, 12:14:07 am: ESL doesn't mean you shouldn't be confident, isn't it just the same to score in ESL as it is for Eng?

Yeah lots of hard work. That's it really, do practice exams and resource materials and know the text book as well as you can. Read the text more than once if that helps.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Casandra on December 01, 2009, 07:13:13 pm: Look at something, get it into your head, and write it down a couple times so it gets into your hand memory. You can focus on your ideas much better when you write them down on paper.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: midas_touch on December 01, 2009, 09:18:48 pm: in the nude
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 01:08:21 pm: cramming
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Ilovemathsmeth on December 02, 2009, 02:09:24 pm: I can't cram - I panic too much when I do.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 02:20:15 pm: Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 01:08:21 pm
cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: m@tty on December 02, 2009, 02:31:01 pm: Quote from: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 02:20:15 pm
Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 01:08:21 pm
cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.

Is this with all your subjects? Are there any which are less full on?
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 03:19:09 pm: I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: Cataclysmic on December 02, 2009, 03:34:13 pm: Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 03:19:09 pm
I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that
Is this the practice classes/tutorials? Like 2 hours a week?
I can't imagine like 5 hours per subject, because that would be like 100 hours of work a week :S

I checked engineering and the suggested private study time is 6-7 hours per subject/week ( 4 subs, 24-28 hours :uglystupid2: )
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 04:18:21 pm: Quote from: m@tty on December 02, 2009, 02:31:01 pm
Quote from: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 02:20:15 pm
Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 01:08:21 pm
cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.

Is this with all your subjects? Are there any which are less full on?

I "think" the UoM breadth subjects aren't as full on as normal uni subjects. With uni subjects though you will expect a much faster pace than VCE subjects. Calc 1 in UoM will try and teach students the important parts of Specialist maths in 14 weeks.

The fact is that you have lectures to give you all the information and then you must use that information to do study and understand concepts in that subject. So this extra pressure on you to be independent and the fact that lecturers have to go through the whole subject in 12-14 weeks will make the pace a lot faster.

Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 03:19:09 pm
I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that

5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?

I think that we were told an hour to two hours per contact hour.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 04:42:44 pm: Quote from: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 04:18:21 pm
5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?
Only 3-4 hours a week, so that's 20 hours of study a week for each law subject
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 06:34:40 pm: Quote from: ninwa on December 02, 2009, 04:42:44 pm
Quote from: QuantumJG on December 02, 2009, 04:18:21 pm
5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?
Only 3-4 hours a week, so that's 20 hours of study a week for each law subject

That is still a lot of time considering the average degree implies a uni student has 4 subjects per semester. That is 80 hours study per week!
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: zzdfa on December 02, 2009, 06:43:48 pm: Yes, double that of a full time job =s. That doesn't sound right.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: TrueLight on December 03, 2009, 01:30:40 am: yeah i think law is hardcore

those fat books u have to read and all those cases ewww

i would probably go insane
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: ninwa on December 03, 2009, 08:12:41 am: Quote from: zzdfa on December 02, 2009, 06:43:48 pm
Yes, double that of a full time job =s. That doesn't sound right.

It is right, only nobody actually follows it. Even the lecturers think it's ridiculous. But the courses go at that fast a pace - if you followed the reading guide you'd have easily ~100 pages to read per week per subject
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: boysenberry on December 07, 2009, 12:08:36 am: A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: minilunchbox on December 07, 2009, 12:21:38 am: Quote from: boysenberry on December 07, 2009, 12:08:36 am
A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?

I tried doing that for my textbook/notes but somehow I adopt a pompous british accent so I end up laughing at myself and being distracted. Now I just read quietly in my head because even though I still sound equally ridiculous, I don't notice it as much.

I generally study by writing and then summarising and then writing and then a bit of reading and then more writing. But I write really fast with heaps of acronyms, some I forgot the meaning of, which makes my notes practically illegible so I rarely read over them.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: moshi on December 12, 2009, 10:32:38 pm: Quote from: minilunchbox on December 07, 2009, 12:21:38 am
Quote from: boysenberry on December 07, 2009, 12:08:36 am
A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?

I tried doing that for my textbook/notes but somehow I adopt a pompous british accent so I end up laughing at myself and being distracted. Now I just read quietly in my head because even though I still sound equally ridiculous, I don't notice it as much.

I generally study by writing and then summarising and then writing and then a bit of reading and then more writing. But I write really fast with heaps of acronyms, some I forgot the meaning of, which makes my notes practically illegible so I rarely read over them.
haha same, I end up being distracted by my voice too! Although sometimes reading aloud does help - particularly with memorising my detailed study this year, just repeating it in chunks over and over really helped. I also prefer to type out unit summaries than make handwritten ones, then use a combination of copying out and reading aloud to memorise.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: spontaneouscombustion on January 08, 2010, 04:31:35 pm: Quote from: moshi on December 12, 2009, 10:32:38 pm
Quote from: minilunchbox on December 07, 2009, 12:21:38 am
Quote from: boysenberry on December 07, 2009, 12:08:36 am
A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?

I tried doing that for my textbook/notes but somehow I adopt a pompous british accent so I end up laughing at myself and being distracted. Now I just read quietly in my head because even though I still sound equally ridiculous, I don't notice it as much.

I generally study by writing and then summarising and then writing and then a bit of reading and then more writing. But I write really fast with heaps of acronyms, some I forgot the meaning of, which makes my notes practically illegible so I rarely read over them.
haha same, I end up being distracted by my voice too! Although sometimes reading aloud does help - particularly with memorising my detailed study this year, just repeating it in chunks over and over really helped. I also prefer to type out unit summaries than make handwritten ones, then use a combination of copying out and reading aloud to memorise.

For theory subjects I only make notes to help with the memorizing process...in other words I never read over them again. I find it quite useless. I'd rather do practice exams and questions with the time spent reading over again out loud.

For english I read around 5 pages of my text(s) a night, which helps in memorizing quotes and being more familiar with the texts. I prob should've written more practice essays but I hate them with a passion so i always procrastinated when it was essay time. :P
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
Post by: xSkittles on May 20, 2010, 05:17:01 pm: i study with by recording myself and listening voer definitions again when i sleep.
Title: Re: How do you guys study??
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