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for me.. might do around  3 hours per night or 4 hours when sacs come around. I don't know if that's enough though.. :\ 
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for me.. might do around  3 hours per night or 4 hours when sacs come around. I don't know if that's enough though.. :\ 
Thats a hell of a lot more then what most people I know normally do. For me it was probably 30 minutes on a bad day and 2 hours on a good day (weekdays), weekends can vary from no study to 3-5 hours
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I'd go for 2~3 hours a night, no more. If you study consistently each night - get a routine going, then there wouldn't be the need to study for ~4 hours the night before a SAC. That's just me though.

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Some of my subjects take up a lot of time.. i know specialists my teacher recommends 2 hours a night. I'm aiming high too...  
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I'd go for 2~3 hours a night, no more. If you study consistently each night - get a routine going, then there wouldn't be the need to study for ~4 hours the night before a SAC. That's just me though.
Nah not before the night of a SAC but leading up towards the SAC
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Man, don't study hard out before a sac... if anything, you should be doing less/none and more sleep!
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for me.. might do around  3 hours per night or 4 hours when sacs come around. I don't know if that's enough though.. :\  

4 hours is overkill. As EPL said get a routine happening of about 2 to 3 hours. This way you will have time to relax and do otherthings but also maintain full concentration and attention.
I know plenty of people that did a lot of study and it ended up backfiring since they had no time to relax and ended up being full of stress that they needed to do more and more.

If you do 2 hours of spesh a night you will hate on the subject and grow tired of it by the end of the year. I can understand doing 2 hours say Monday, Wednesday and Friday and having the Tuesday and Thursday just dont dedicate all your time to one subject and neglect the others.

Also the night before the SAC try to do no study at all for it and if you make it a maximum of 15-30 minutes to just check something you have forgotton. Otherwise you will have a mind full of information when it likely already knows it and you are overloading and making it do too much when it doesn't have to.
The brain is a simple tool that works well when not over used, people just try and do too much and wonder why why get stressed out.
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for me.. might do around  3 hours per night or 4 hours when sacs come around. I don't know if that's enough though.. :\ 

4 hours is overkill. As EPL said get a routine happening of about 2 to 3 hours. This way you will have time to relax and do otherthings but also maintain full concentration and attention.
I know plenty of people that did a lot of study and it ended up backfiring since they had no time to relax and ended up being full of stress that they needed to do more and more.

If you do 2 hours of spesh a night you will hate on the subject and grow tired of it by the end of the year. I can understand doing 2 hours say Monday, Wednesday and Friday and having the Tuesday and Thursday just dont dedicate all your time to one subject and neglect the others.

Also the night before the SAC try to do no study at all for it and if you make it a maximum of 15-30 minutes to just check something you have forgotton. Otherwise you will have a mind full of information when it likely already knows it and you are overloading and making it do too much when it doesn't have to.
The brain is a simple tool that works well when not over used, people just try and do too much and wonder why why get stressed out.


i did 5-6 hours last year so 4 hours doesnt kill me.. lol..
and im just saying my teacher told me to do a minimum of 2 hours -.-'' .. but i think i'll be cutting it back to 1.
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if u get topics beforehand for a sac in eng/lit I strong suggest not writing out the whole thing the night before. Do plan but don't go full out.
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from my experience I'd say don't set out an amount of homework you'll do every night...different times vary in the amount of work required....just work until you've revised everything you've learnt at school that day, done any setwork, looked over new vocab or grammar in languages and prepared for any sacs.  Also, pretty basic stuff, but start studying for a sac from at least a week before...even two weeks if possible!
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I'd say around 2.5-3 hours is sufficient if you have no sacs on.
In year 11 I spent 1 hour per night for each of my two 3/4 subjects and another hour and a half for my other four subjects.
In year 12 I'm planning to spend 30min for each of my 5 subjects so 2.5 hours on a normal night and if I have a sac of something I'll spend more time on a particular subject and less on another subject.
The most I'll plan to study is 4hours per night if I had lots of homework or something.

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3 minimum I reckon.
of course, study time would fluctuate throughout the year hahaha
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Your mind can work at different paces depending on your mood, thus your knowledge absorption rate can fluctuate greatly. I prefer to set a quantity of work to do per day, then limit the time spent on them to improve my efficiency. Instead of making yourself work extra long hrs per day, just try to do make urself do more things in a shorter amount of time.
well the limit can turn into a threshold..

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Oh wow, that's a lot of hours! :S

I did around one every night (on a good day) and more before a SAC last year.

Now I'm worried... :S