Later school starts

[grannysmith]

Who goes to bed early? I'd buy the argument if you were talking about 6 year olds but for people 16-18 going to bed at 9 or 10 is kinda lame IMO. My household sometimes has dinner at 10...

Sleeping at 9 is definitely frowned upon :p

[anna.xo]

Who goes to bed early? I'd buy the argument if you were talking about 6 year olds but for people 16-18 going to bed at 9 or 10 is kinda lame IMO. My household sometimes has dinner at 10...

Funny that all the top achievers seem to crash out at around 9-9.30 now isn't it..?

[simba]

Funny that all the top achievers seem to crash out at around 9-9.30 now isn't it..?

Do you have any research to support this? I know most nights in VCE I wan't actually asleep until 12-2am

[pi]

Funny that all the top achievers seem to crash out at around 9-9.30 now isn't it..?

I started studying at 9-9.30... I never came home and hit the books. Works for some, but not others.

[InNeedForHelp]

I started studying at 9-9.30... I never came home and hit the books. Works for some, but not others.

When do you stop studying and what time does uni start for you ?

[Chazef]

I spent a lot of nights staying up till 4am just because I learnt nothing at school. Having said that I also procrastinated a lot and only got surges of motivation around midnight

[pi]

When do you stop studying and what time does uni start for you ?

12-1am? I start at 7-9am

[anna.xo]

Do you have any research to support this? I know most nights in VCE I wan't actually asleep until 12-2am

No I do not. This is based purely on anecdotal evidence

[Saikyo]

Who has a bed time these days? LMAO

[Aaron]

Funny that all the top achievers seem to crash out at around 9-9.30 now isn't it..?

Huh? I don't know a single person that goes to sleep at 9-9:30.. What was the purpose of this post?

Who has a bed time these days? LMAO

You'd be surprised.


When I was in Year 11-12, I really didn't have a set time limit that i'd sleep. Just whenever I felt like it was a suitable time or when I actually was tired. Many nights would be 1-2am, others would be 11pm. Depends really. I never really went over the top though when studying - I knew plenty of people in my cohort that would stay up until 3am doing assignments/work - which was something I could never do, I valued sleep at that point in time, still do

[anna.xo]

Huh? I don't know a single person that goes to sleep at 9-9:30.. What was the purpose of this post?

Are you honestly telling me that ? I've noticed, at my school at least anyway, our top students are the ones who have a bedtime of 9pm. Maybe an exception on a Saturday night or whatever.

[pi]

It's been a while, but I can't think of anyone who slept before 11pm back when I was at school. And many of my friends were "high achievers" scoring ATARs of 99.90+ or getting jobs at PwC and whatnot.

[Stick]

Who goes to bed early? I'd buy the argument if you were talking about 6 year olds but for people 16-18 going to bed at 9 or 10 is kinda lame IMO. My household sometimes has dinner at 10...

I go to bed at 10pm.

[Russ]

This idea is probably aiming to address the fact that, yknow, people are different. Circadian rhythms are known to be in flux during your adolescence, it's a not unreasonable suggestion that school times be altered to accommodate this (assuming that it isn't unduly difficult for the school to do so).

nb I sleep at 10.30, earlier in high school, and never study in the evenings so everybody is different

[zsteve]

I usually start studying 7am and finish around 10pm. About this whole 'later school starts' thing, it's ridiculous anyway. Compared with other countries (CHINA!!!) we are already waay behind in both performance and skills in our primary-secondary education. Why make it worse?!