Being Efficient

[Cosec]

Im spend a fair bit of my time doing homework, among other things including work and other hobbies.
During the summer holidays, i worked ahead of the class, and continued this pace throughout the first time. At the end of the first term i was up to calculus. Just as my class was finishing circular functions. My first sac in methods, i ranked 1st, but still performed pretty crap considering the difficulty and how long i spent preparing for it. I did however learn i really actually need to read the questions! Which i guess is the major thing to learn from. Coming into the holidays, i found myself forcing myself to redo the entire circular functions chapter of essentials. Why? I have no clue. But now, i do feel a little more comfortable then i previously was (im pretty confident with it now) with the circ functions topic. But i found this tendancy to keep going through it again continued. The next sac for methods includes circular functions, and chapter 4 of hinemann, which includes composite, inverses, etc. All of which i have covered before in essentials (i work from essentials). Yet, i still found myself doing inverses from maths quest, despite being comfortable with them already. Its at the point where i just feel im wasting my time. I guess what im trying to get at, is what point in terms of conformability should i say to myself, enough is enough. Is there any test for each topic which suggests that im at a high competency level for the topic? I feel as if im just wasting my time, when i should be using to relax a little. I feel that ill procrastinate when i dont have a clear outline of what work i want or should be doing. Is it a good idea to go back through the chapters already completed? Or is it just seen as pointless? Keep in mind its been since summer holidays that i past went through composite functions. Can anyone lend some ideas? I jsut feel enough is never enough. Someone assure me im doing it right or something. Hahaha

[AngelWings]

Can anyone lend some ideas? I jsut feel enough is never enough. Someone assure me im doing it right or something.

Don't worry. I feel like I waste my time and I'm in uni. That says something.

Methods is one of those that you don't change fast. You feel as if you're putting a crazy amount of effort in and you get a decent score. Reminder that SACs count for only a third of your marks in the overall study score, so it won't matter much in the end.

In terms of stop fluffing around with all this extra work: I'd suggest you limit it to the one your school uses and the one you prefer or prefer second if the first is the one used by your school. Doing more than two means that either you're not putting enough work into your other subjects or you have a crazy amount of free time that I'd envy. (Seriously I want a break right now, but alas ...) If you're super uncomfortable after the first two books, do some Checkpoints questions that you can do now or whatever exam revision book you like to do.

[Cosec]

Don't worry. I feel like I waste my time and I'm in uni. That says something.

Methods is one of those that you don't change fast. You feel as if you're putting a crazy amount of effort in and you get a decent score. Reminder that SACs count for only a third of your marks in the overall study score, so it won't matter much in the end.

In terms of stop fluffing around with all this extra work: I'd suggest you limit it to the one your school uses and the one you prefer or prefer second if the first is the one used by your school. Doing more than two means that either you're not putting enough work into your other subjects or you have a crazy amount of free time that I'd envy. (Seriously I want a break right now, but alas ...) If you're super uncomfortable after the first two books, do some Checkpoints questions that you can do now or whatever exam revision book you like to do.

Sorry, i might not have made it clear. I primarily use Essentials, but if i find i want to go back over something or look for me explanation i use hinee as a second resource. I also use checkpoints. For circular functions, out of the 20 something questions i did (i cant remeber exactly how many there were) i got 2 wrong, mind you i didnt really have a crack at them and try solving them (I read them and said to myself ill come back to them as they will take a bit of time to complete). Is this considered good? What should i be aiming at for a 40+? I just feel no matter what i do, its never enough.

[cosine]

Sorry, i might not have made it clear. I primarily use Essentials, but if i find i want to go back over something or look for me explanation i use hinee as a second resource. I also use checkpoints. For circular functions, out of the 20 something questions i did (i cant remeber exactly how many there were) i got 2 wrong, mind you i didnt really have a crack at them and try solving them (I read them and said to myself ill come back to them as they will take a bit of time to complete). Is this considered good? What should i be aiming at for a 40+? I just feel no matter what i do, its never enough.

Well I guess that's true, but for all of us. I mean, how much work can someone really do for it to be enough? Of course it's never enough, I would say unless you master everything (considering you want that 40+), you should never settle for anything less than mastering everything. I don't think you can actually, before the exams, just sit back and smile at the work you have put in, because we will never be 100% satisfied, because there's simply so much to learn. That's the beauty of it, haha, I think when you feel like you are willing to learn from what you don't already know, that's when I think you have done enough. 

*Dropping the mic, and walking out like a boss right now*