is "burning out" if you work too hard on the holidays a myth?

[REBORN]

To finish off something like Further Mathematics is absolutely pathetic IMO. You'll be soooooooooooooo bored.

I haven't even bought the textbook for it yet. :p

I don't see how that is pathetic at all. If you want to finish the course, go for it! For further kids out there, I would take ssNake's advice (in this case) very lightly, further is harder than it seems and getting a head-start is never bad nor is it "pathetic".

Sigh.

1. I said FINISH, not head start.
2. The context of the comment is that you'd rather relax and have hols than finish an easy subject like Further.
3. Implied statement that if you do want to work 5hrs a day work on a 'heavy' subject like Chem u3 (scales +4) to indicate difficulty rather than a comparatively easy subject (-3 for Further) which does become boring (generalisation).

[Phy124]

I certainly wouldn't advise doing 6 hours a day during the summer holidays. You're not really going to get that far ahead and if it was me I would surely 'hit the wall' during the year. But I guess different things work for different people.

Try and ease into your studying, make sure you give yourself breaks and that you maintain both physical and mental fitness. Retaining or acquiring  (if you didn't already have one) a social life will also assist in preventing a lack of motivation.

Best of luck to you

[lisavincent95]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

[giveup]

VCE - demonstrates who can spend the most time infront of a book

[Special At Specialist]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

[funkyducky]

For some normalcy here, I did 0 hours a day for most of the Christmas holidays and I encourage people to damn well enjoy their time before the year starts

You people scare me, six hours in January :O

+∞

This is your last real break, people! Take it easy, slow down, relax. I'd recommend that you acquaint yourself with your English texts, keep up with the news, maybe do a bit of maths or chem or whatever once or twice a week to keep it all fresh in your mind - but I see no tangible benefit in cramming an entire course into the summer holidays. Pace yourself - work regularly, but keep the workload light for now.

[TrueTears]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

lol learning is an endless process, you can never learn enough, i've been on uni holidays for a while now and been doing 9-10 hours of 'study' per day


with some posts above, just coz further is easy doesn't mean u shudn't study it lol, if you like something even if it's easy, so what? go for your life, study every hr of the day on it if you want, as long as you enjoy it you can learn anything

[Fishyiscool]

LOL bazza are u studying just out of your own interest?
and I don't actually know where this is gone but... I think to a certain extent, ppl who say "do nothing" on the holidays might just be being lazy/ don't need a craaazy atar for their course. or any atar at all perhaps.
my spesh teacher's advice was "rest well, i'm giving you no homework". Of course, on the contrary, I'm doing the opposite of that but i don't want to knock myself out with study overdose so I'm about to collapse by term 3. Which tends to happen... coz I'm always motivated, sometimes I just don't act on the motivation ahahaa XD
I think most people are right with 5 hours a day.

[totaled]

you cant really burn out in the holidays, but even if you do, it doesnt matter, all the work you've done is a bonus, since holidays are meant to be for relaxing anyway
so if you  feel like studyfing crazy for one day, go for it ! and if you feel like doing nothing the next, don't feel bad either

[lisavincent95]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

When I know people like you exist, it makes me fear my ATAR score. I thought I studied a lot :/

[funkyducky]

How odd. It appears to me as though the entire world has lost all sensibility. This strange notion of studying during the holidays is as nonsensical and indecipherable to me as the gurgling of a newborn baby or the ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs. YOU'RE ALL CRAZY.

[Fishyiscool]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

When I know people like you exist, it makes me fear my ATAR score. I thought I studied a lot :/

^^^
MY EXACT THOUGHTS!
 
and LOL funkydunky

[xdecay]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

i'm going to quote the trite TSFX promotional quote: 'STUDY SMARTER, NOT HARDER'.

[moekamo]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

When I know people like you exist, it makes me fear my ATAR score. I thought I studied a lot :/

Dude, don't fear, that's way to much effort for holidays in my opinion. In the holidays before I did year 12 I went overseas for a month(no school work done at all), then for the remainder I did whatever was set for holiday homework and then browsed my textbooks every now and then so I had a brief idea of what I'd be learning in the year.

And for the record, my holiday homework wasn't much, it was probably a chapter or two of the methods and spec textbooks, a year 11 physics exam(motion and electricity sections), selected questions from chem textbook, first few chapters, basically revision of year 11, and summarise a few chapters from english language textbook(again, revision stuff from year 11).

Then during terms, as long as you study consistently, stay organised and up to date/a bit ahead you should be fine, that was my strategy and I ended up with a 99+ ENTER and scholarship into my first preference(I also had a part time job and a decent social life), so I must've done something right...

But by all means, like TT said, if you're enjoying studying a particular subject, it definitely doesn't hurt to learn more, or even the whole course if you're really enjoying it. But definitely don't feel you need to do that amount of work over summer to achieve a good score.

[thushan]

Suppose you were to study 5-6 hours a day. What content would you be doing? I legitimately can't think of anything that would take that long other than making summaries for my entire text books or learning the whole course. I'm kinda just interested in what these people are even doing! haha

I'm not saying I intend to do this, but an example would be:
Finish specialist maths textbook
Finish methods textbook
Finish NEAP practice guides for both subjects
Do at least 20 practice exams for both (tech-free and tech assist) which can be found on the internet
Do checkpoints books for both
Go on memrise and learn 1000 words in a language
Translate entire LOTE textbook
Finish LOTE workbook and grammar book
Read English novels and write a chapter summary on every chapter
Write at least 5 essays on each novel, whether it be a context or thematic essay
Read newspaper articles and analyse persuasive techniques
Read top scoring essays to get an idea what to aim for
Then translate every english essay to a different language!

When I know people like you exist, it makes me fear my ATAR score. I thought I studied a lot :/

^^^
MY EXACT THOUGHTS!
 
and LOL funkydunky

@Special At Specialist
One word. Workaholic .