Studying?

[red bull]

Just out of curiousity, how many hours do you study per day?

[xXNovaxX]

What do you define as study?

Doing Homework which has been SET?
Doing revision for SACS/exams?
Doing extra questions?

[red bull]

all of the above

[xXNovaxX]

Um, well 4-5 hours, depending on how the week is.

[GerrySly]

Max an hour a day, 2 hours on weekends. Of course there'd be the intense sessions where I'd do a lot (Methods Probability, did all chapters in a weekend)

[Ilovemathsmeth]

I did about 2-3 on weeknights (school days), around 6-7 on school holidays and about 4-5 on weekends.

[amirite?]

Thats a whole lot of study.

Do you guys allow for sports and socializing? Do you use any methods to keep it interesting or do you enjoy studying? I prefer to call studying - enlightenment. Expanding my horizons... hah Anyone else like this?

I can deal with spending 4 hours on an assignment at one time but its the revising that I need to learn how to do. Forcing myself to revise even when im up-to-date with everything. Should be a good challenge.

[xXNovaxX]

Well not many people do a sports etc, so that frees up a tonne of time.

I have a tonne of shops nearby, which a lot saved time in terms of commuting, I give myself free time on the weekends.

In terms of revision, I did NONE throughout the year, save for 3-4 days before each SAC, and I managed a dozen or so A's and A+'s  ><

It is do-able.

Same goes for exam, did revision night before, or 2 days before, and even THEN it wasn't spending the whole day studying, still got me into Melbourne Uni =P

[kenhung123]

Wow, I thought you won't have enough time to prepare for sacs! you seem very relaxed!

[xXNovaxX]

You bring up a good point (I assume Kenhung123 u were talking to me?)

I think HOMEWORK for me >was< revision?

Because 80% of people in my class never did the homework, or left it till last minute, whereas I did it day by day taking it slowly, thereby acting like revision??

[amirite?]

I sort of need a plan. A routine. Something like this.
- Get eveything done as soon as I get it. As soon as possible rather. Dont leave it til the night before. KEEP up-to-date!
- A week before SACs turn up the revision so I know my shit leading into them.
- Have a master revision every weekend, different subject each week. This would be preparation the half-year exam. So I keep the knowledge of the semesters work so far relatively fresh in my mind. It would entail simply reading over all of my notes so far.

[mypurpleundercracka]

during the year i had the mentality that if i did anything less than 4 hrs a day then i was as bright as a VCAL student

[dshban]

during the year i had the mentality that if i did anything less than 4 hrs a day then i was as bright as a VCAL student

Probably unnecessary, but to each their own.

I did very little. I usually did the set homework, except in Methods. Intense studying the night before a SAC, and reasonable studying for the week before each exam. Otherwise, that was it.

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Thats a whole lot of study.

Do you guys allow for sports and socializing? Do you use any methods to keep it interesting or do you enjoy studying? I prefer to call studying - enlightenment. Expanding my horizons... hah Anyone else like this?

I can deal with spending 4 hours on an assignment at one time but its the revising that I need to learn how to do. Forcing myself to revise even when im up-to-date with everything. Should be a good challenge.

I was never good at sitting long hours without breaks. I always took breaks, every hour to hour and a half or so and listened to my ipod, or watched stuff on youtube or checked my e-mail and stuff like that. 4 hours seems amazing to sit through in 1 go.

I didn't really have extra curricular activities. I did do debating with DAV from year 9 to the end of year 11, but dropped it in year 12. I mainly watched movies every Friday night to relax after an often long and tiring/stressful week.

[amirite?]

Ill probably take friday afternoon/night completely off to keep me sane.