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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: vexx on September 05, 2010, 12:46:38 pm
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Hi,
Just wondering how much everyone will be studying during SWOTVAC and during holidays, to get a rough idea of some of the top students and how much they are doing! This is not for any school days, purely for days off including weekends.
I was planning to perhaps do 3 subjects per day either an exam or review for each, which could be anywhere from 3-7hrs! With a few rest days along the way.
But what about you?
Vexx.
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25 hours a day
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probably in a couple 'bursts' of 2-3 hours each day? apparently it's good for your memory.
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In my case, since Accounting is my only 3/4 subject, I am planning to study and do PRACTICE EXAMS for Accounting throughout the holidays (like about 50% of my holidays). I would probably do a good 3-hour session of Accounting per day (making notes, doing a few practice exams.) I already started hitting the PRACTICE exams and stuff... since we've finished the course, and yet the exam is like 2 months away... LOL.
I find it hard to do 1 SUBJECT for hours on end... change subjects after a while.
25 hours a day
real dedication there. liking it... :P
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hmmm about 6-7 hours a day, 2-3 hours at a time (ie, a normal school day) with two days a week off.
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I honestly dont know. Im sure it will all click into gear though and I will turn into a studyfreak.
I will at least do all the VCAA past exams for all my subjects.
I really think practice exams and reading assessors reports are the best way to go because you come across the same stuff over and over and it highlights any gaps in your notes.
Reading the assessors reports over and over is the key to replicating the formulaic responses my subjects require.
Theres nothing better than putting it into practice and working til you get as close to 100% on your practice exams as possible. You can read and write notes as much as you like but that doesnt help you at all with practicing your recall.
Im actually pretty pumped for crunch time. Gonna be cool as ice, a mastermind. ;)
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Probs 3-5 hours a day at most. Realistically, probs 3ish.
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I honestly dont know. Im sure it will all click into gear though and I will turn into a studyfreak.
Haha that's so good, i want to be a studyfreak.
I have to put in extra time because i've done close to zero for a month! Ahh studyfreak here we come.
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I reckon I'll do 5-6 hours... try and keep in the rythm of school or I'll end up doing nothing
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Having breaks is really good. Doing study durations of 1-4 hours and having a break of 5-30 minutes is better for retaining information, so you can relax and think about it etc. Scientifically proven.
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Probs... wake up 9-10am and chill for a bit until zombie mode stops. Study 1-2 hours, take 30 min break, then another 1-2, 30 min break, repeat until 9-10pm. Which should be about ~7-8 per day. Days with lectures (which will be half of my holidays) will probably only have 2-3 hours study
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Having breaks is really good. Doing study durations of 1-4 hours and having a break of 5-30 minutes is better for retaining information, so you can relax and think about it etc. Scientifically proven.
I think we're told this 1000000 times in VCE
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Realistically probably 2 exams max per day (depending on which exams, further maybe 3 or 4 in a day) and maybe 30 mins to 1 hr on writing out notes or reading over notes
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I never plan this stuff.
Some days I do heaps..some days I cbf...
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I honestly dont know. Im sure it will all click into gear though and I will turn into a studyfreak.
Haha that's so good, i want to be a studyfreak.
I have to put in extra time because i've done close to zero for a month! Ahh studyfreak here we come.
Same I havent done a whole lot recently.
Having breaks is really good. Doing study durations of 1-4 hours and having a break of 5-30 minutes is better for retaining information, so you can relax and think about it etc. Scientifically proven.
Oh shit I think I read it wrong. Ive been doing 5-30mins study then taking 1-4 hours of rest.
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^ Funny guy xD.
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I'll be happy to get through a trail paper for each subject per day :)
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will drop 11 exams a day like i did before midyears for each subject, and chill for the other 7 days
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will drop 11 exams a day like i did before midyears for each subject, and chill for the other 7 days
Dude thats like 16 and half hours...
For each subject im going to do a past paper each day and write an essay each day. Should be sufficient cos i dont want to burn out. That would be around 6 hours a day of work. (methods 3 hours chem 1 hour bio 1 hour english 1 hour
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Probs... wake up 9-10am and chill for a bit until zombie mode stops. Study 1-2 hours, take 30 min break, then another 1-2, 30 min break, repeat until 9-10pm. Which should be about ~7-8 per day. Days with lectures (which will be half of my holidays) will probably only have 2-3 hours study
yep this is what i want to do.
if you think about it, if your up from 10am and chose to do nothing from 10pm onwards, that's 12hours... cut out an hour break per meal/snack is still 9hours... And then another set of 30minute rests is still so much time!
it's actually amazing if you plan your days well, really hope we can achieve this:)
But i'm not studying on the days i have lectures (may just do derrick ha methods, and then neap chem, thats only 2 days), and when i go back to school i'll spend half of the after school times resting/light reading, so my body can relax for some periods!
guys, we have so much time, i think we can achieve our goals or atleast close to for many subjects
(though i wont be able to do well at englang at all.. haha but yeah)
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hopefully during the holidays i can study from 9am - 3pm, like a normal school day
break time afterwards for a bit
then study 1-2 hours, if i feel like it
then after dinner --> FREE TIME!! :D
my studying is mainly going to consist of making summary notes, doing checkpoints/practice questions, practice essays
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theres about 30 days free for study left before exams. If you could manage 8 hours a day of study thats 50 hours for each of 5 subjects. 50 hours is the recommended in class time for each unit and the recommended homework time for each unit. This is what you will do without even straining but anything more than this is where the benefits must really show. Imagine 50 hours more than this.
Youd need to spend every second waking hour studying though.
WAKE UP, 2 hours study, 1 hour off, 2 hours study, 4 hours off, 2 of study, 1 off, 2 of study, 2 hours rest, SLEEEEP. That would be a good day.
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I intend to do about 4-5 exams per day, say averaging 2 hours each including marking, comes to 8-10 hours per day.
Also, how long do people have swotvac for? At my school it starts about a week before the English exam, it doesn't seem like much to me.
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theres about 30 days free for study left before exams. If you could manage 8 hours a day of study thats 50 hours for each of 5 subjects. 50 hours is the recommended in class time for each unit and the recommended homework time for each unit. This is what you will do without even straining but anything more than this is where the benefits must really show. Imagine 50 hours more than this.
Youd need to spend every second waking hour studying though.
WAKE UP, 2 hours study, 1 hour off, 2 hours study, 4 hours off, 2 of study, 1 off, 2 of study, 2 hours rest, SLEEEEP. That would be a good day.
Theres more than 30 days for sure... for written exams that is.
28 October for English so you have 24 +28 =52 days . UNless ur saying you have 30 days of actual revision cos the course hasnt finished yet
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^ i counted there being 33 days for me, excluding school days, lecture days, being hangover days (going out a few times) and uni workshops.
so 33 days is like close to 200 hours if you did 6 hours per day.. a lot can be done though.
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I intend to do about 4-5 exams per day, say averaging 2 hours each including marking, comes to 8-10 hours per day.
Also, how long do people have swotvac for? At my school it starts about a week before the English exam, it doesn't seem like much to me.
I basically get the Thursday - Wednesday b4 the English exam off meaning that I finish term 4 on Wednesday 20th. So yea same as you I reckon
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balls, we only get 2 weeks off before the english exam >.< others get a whole effing month.
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A month? That basically means no term 4
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omg this thread is scaring me T_T i did like 3 horus today LOl
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52 days till english exam btw guys :P
Booooo :(
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
i am so faaarked!!
And for once in my life, if I could just stick to this study routine, I might be okay:
Study 9am-1pm, 2pm-6pm, 7pm-9ish pm.
Eat, TV and other stuff at other times :P
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
i am so faaarked!!
me neither :S unless helping out someone who IS doing an essay counts....
ill probably be up at around 9, ready for study by 10.30-11, go for lunch/break at 2, keep going till 4, tea break :) then keep going till 7, food/break and then keep going till 10?
so all together i guess 8? 9? thats the plan anyway :D lol
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
i am so faaarked!!
what this guy said. If i did do it to timed conditions, i'd have half an essay
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haha. study cramming sounds like a plan! we should have a total hours tally and the winner gets, uhh, something....i dunno :P
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Winner gets 99.95. Enough said.
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a medical degree will do for me haha...
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30 days of time not at school doing schoolwork. ie. holidays, weekends, swot-vac. roughly 30 days of it.
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
Erm, what about outcomes? :s lol.
What is swot-vac??
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
Erm, what about outcomes? :s lol.
What is swot-vac??
Its what us uni folk call the week our holidays start. However they are rudely interrupted ~7 days later by exams.
If you're a good student you're meant to study in that week and get your shit together for exams.
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^haven't written a single text response/context essay by hand or under timed conditions.
Erm, what about outcomes? :s lol.
What is swot-vac??
My retarded memorize an essay word for word approach isn't going to suffice for the exam...
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wake up at 7:30, study 9:30-12:30 1hr break study 1:30-5:30 1hr break 6:30-9:30 1hr break then sleep.
so 10 hrs
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Its what us uni folk call the week our holidays start. However they are rudely interrupted ~7 days later by exams.
If you're a good student you're meant to study in that week and get your shit together for exams.
Isn't it the bad students that spend swotvac cramming desperately?
I get up at 7, eat breakfast by 8, work till 12.
Lunch till 1, work till 6, dinner and relax.
Simple :)
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Just got told by school that are expected to study 7-8 hours per day with a day off per week.
Wow :\
Didn't realise this was expected..
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I need a filter that prevents me from visiting any sites that aren't chemistry, biology, maths or english related. :(
It's so hard sitting in front of a computer and not wasting time...
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I need a filter that prevents me from visiting any sites that aren't chemistry, biology, maths or english related. :(
It's so hard sitting in front of a computer and not wasting time...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476/
I have it set to block facebook and somethingawful, it increases my productivity massively.
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No if such a thing is available to google chrome?
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http://lifehacker.com/software/greasemonkey/invisibility-cloak-update-149252.php
Apparently that, if chrome supports greasemonkey
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When is the last day of school?
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Something to block VN perhaps?
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Something to block VN perhaps?
DEFINITELY...
VN is my primary source of 'false progress'. XD
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My retarded memorize an essay word for word approach isn't going to suffice for the exam...
Ahh, that sucks. We don't get the prompt before the essay so i'm used to it.
Just got told by school that are expected to study 7-8 hours per day with a day off per week.
Wow, that's wayy too intense. Our school says 2-5 hrs per day and take regular breaks. It's all about balance :)
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I plan to do
wake up 8:30.
9am start.
10:30 morning tea
10-45-12:45 study
12-45-1:45 lunch
1:45-5:00 study
and then done. repeat this every day.
6 hours and 15 minutes. going to be the best HOLIDAYS EVER!
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About 12 hours/day - I hope I don't burn out.
3am - Wake up to a nutritious breakfast
4-12 - Study (Taking regular breaks)
12-2 - Lunch/Break
2-6 - Study (Taking regular breaks)
Sleep at 9pm << I'm relying on "Every hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours after".
Let's see how it goes. =]
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3am?!
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if ur gonna sleep at 9 then ull still get 6 hours. I dont think that rule of every hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours if they are in the same sleep.
By this I mean if you take an afternoon nap for 1 hour, it would be worth 2 hours, so long that you wake up after that nap and work then go back to sleep. Because your biological clock doesnt know when "midnight" is if ur waking up at 3am.
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Shhh...
I said I'll see how it goes. =]
I'll make sure that I naturally wake up... without an alarm clock. =]
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I need a filter that prevents me from visiting any sites that aren't chemistry, biology, maths or english related. :(
It's so hard sitting in front of a computer and not wasting time...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476/
I have it set to block facebook and somethingawful, it increases my productivity massively.
thanks I just installed it, goodbye facebook...
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done that ages ago :P
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^ good on you, I only recently decided to create a facebook, hours of my life have been wasted since :)
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if ur gonna sleep at 9 then ull still get 6 hours. I dont think that rule of every hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours if they are in the same sleep.
By this I mean if you take an afternoon nap for 1 hour, it would be worth 2 hours, so long that you wake up after that nap and work then go back to sleep. Because your biological clock doesnt know when "midnight" is if ur waking up at 3am.
it's actually worse to take a short nap then return to studying.
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if ur gonna sleep at 9 then ull still get 6 hours. I dont think that rule of every hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours if they are in the same sleep.
By this I mean if you take an afternoon nap for 1 hour, it would be worth 2 hours, so long that you wake up after that nap and work then go back to sleep. Because your biological clock doesnt know when "midnight" is if ur waking up at 3am.
it's actually worse to take a short nap then return to studying.
how th' hell do yu' turn off for one hour and wake up anyway? I can never nap...ever...totally incapable :P
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if ur gonna sleep at 9 then ull still get 6 hours. I dont think that rule of every hour of sleep before midnight is worth 2 hours if they are in the same sleep.
By this I mean if you take an afternoon nap for 1 hour, it would be worth 2 hours, so long that you wake up after that nap and work then go back to sleep. Because your biological clock doesnt know when "midnight" is if ur waking up at 3am.
it's actually worse to take a short nap then return to studying.
how th' hell do yu' turn off for one hour and wake up anyway? I can never nap...ever...totally incapable :P
Yeah... same here...
even if I do... i'll struggle to go back to study mode. ><"
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IMO "exam study" is much easier than learning the course for the first time. The work you need to do is very much set out in stone: you only need to pump practice exams and examine your mistakes after each one. It's the simplest part of the entire 3/4 course.
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IMO "exam study" is much easier than learning the course for the first time. The work you need to do is very much set out in stone: you only need to pump practice exams and examine your mistakes after each one. It's the simplest part of the entire 3/4 course.
+1 hundred trillion.
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IMO "exam study" is much easier than learning the course for the first time. The work you need to do is very much set out in stone: you only need to pump practice exams and examine your mistakes after each one. It's the simplest part of the entire 3/4 course.
+1 hundred trillion.
+ 2 hundred trillion.
well.. after i revise all of englang and pe.. so second week on! but other subjects yes
i just need to go to a library with whoever will not distract me with a set of practice exams, say 3 for that day, and just go through them, it's not too bad. unlike memorising things for a sac you've never learnt before, or even just doing text book questions of a repeated topic/problem, so tedious.
practice exammmzzzz
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Good luck everyone! :) So many people doing 10 hours + a day...
Just remember doing more work doesn't necessarily equate to a higher ATAR so don't overdo it - just do enough such that you won't regret not doing enough.
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What is swot-vac??
Stands for "Study WithOut Teaching Vacation"
I've always wondered what it stood for... I knew what it meant, so I checked it up during my swot-vac in year 12 Harhar
Something to block VN perhaps?
Just asked to get banned :)
People have done that before haha
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What is swot-vac??
Stands for "Study WithOut Teaching Vacation"
I've always wondered what it stood for... I knew what it meant, so I checked it up during my swot-vac in year 12 Harhar
Something to block VN perhaps?
Just asked to get banned :)
People have done that before haha
did they get unbanned after exams?
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IMO "exam study" is much easier than learning the course for the first time. The work you need to do is very much set out in stone: you only need to pump practice exams and examine your mistakes after each one. It's the simplest part of the entire 3/4 course.
+1 hundred trillion.
+ 2 hundred trillion.
well.. after i revise all of englang and pe.. so second week on! but other subjects yes
i just need to go to a library with whoever will not distract me with a set of practice exams, say 3 for that day, and just go through them, it's not too bad. unlike memorising things for a sac you've never learnt before, or even just doing text book questions of a repeated topic/problem, so tedious.
practice exammmzzzz
+1 (cbf getting the url for my big thumbs up pic)
but i was thinking even more secluded.. become a recluse for two weeks in the outback with nothing but books and a harddrive full of practice exams on my hand-cranked laptop?
haha yesss that would be so good, so not happening though.
but i don't mind, i wont be working all the time, im still gonna go on facebook, and play on the internet, see people and stuff
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I was playing fallout 3 for a few hours a day before my english exam :D
You don't have to study 10 hours a day to do well!
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IMO "exam study" is much easier than learning the course for the first time. The work you need to do is very much set out in stone: you only need to pump practice exams and examine your mistakes after each one. It's the simplest part of the entire 3/4 course.
Absolutely. However working on exam technique and error-elimination can be quite difficult-but that is a personal thing.
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What is swot-vac??
Stands for "Study WithOut Teaching Vacation"
I've always wondered what it stood for... I knew what it meant, so I checked it up during my swot-vac in year 12 Harhar
Something to block VN perhaps?
Just asked to get banned :)
People have done that before haha
did they get unbanned after exams?
Just ask how long you want to be banned for lol
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What is swot-vac??
Stands for "Study WithOut Teaching Vacation"
I've always wondered what it stood for... I knew what it meant, so I checked it up during my swot-vac in year 12 Harhar
Something to block VN perhaps?
Just asked to get banned :)
People have done that before haha
did they get unbanned after exams?
Just ask how long you want to be banned for lol
That's definitely an extreme case - to ask to be banned from VN.
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VN is my study.
Seriously...why read the textbooks when you have VN.
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VN is a great resource. I think being a regular here has given me an advantage. If I wasnt wasting my time on VN I would be wasting it on some other website so I dont think VN is the problem. I blame my addiction to the internet for lost study time.
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VN is a great resource. I think being a regular here has given me an advantage. If I wasnt wasting my time on VN I would be wasting it on some other website so I dont think VN is the problem. I blame my addiction to the internet for lost study time.
Ditto.
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I reckon I'll try and do probably around 3-4 hrs a day, but i dont really time it or anything, and some days will more than others.
So it really varies for me.
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5-8 hours a day for 5 days a week
I'll just try doing a prac exam for each of my four subjects every day and an essay or two of some sort
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I hoping to get probably 2 practice exams done per day for Accounting.
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well today i had no school and did 4 hours 20 mins of study (im keeping a logbook :)). ill do another physics exam tonight so yea, probably doing 6 hours a day, most days...
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How is everyone going with what they thought they were going to do?
Doing more/less?
I'm finding it difficult to get into the swing of things, but some days I'm doing quite well :) I think this week will be good.
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About 9-10 on weekdays (just going to camp out at the library.. i get shit all done at home) and don't really know about weekends but they'll probably be less..(cause im at home)
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only doing like 1-2 hours a day... sleeping most of the time. some days don't do any work :(