Any changes to my study timetable???

[zibb3r]

This is my planned study timetable:

Monday-Thursday: 4 Hours per night

Friday: No study (Reason for this is because I won't have any school work due the next day)

Saturday: 4 Hours in the morning and 4 hours in the afternoon

Sunday: Do any homework required and 2 hours of study


What do you think?

Oh and yeah.  I will have a 10 minute break every 50 minutes :smitten:

[pi]

All I suggest is that you have at least a break every hour!

[funkyducky]

IMO it might be a bit over the top...what's important is not the number of hours, but using your study time efficiently and effectively. Have a goal for each subject, eg. "I want to learn all of Unit 3 Methods by the end of Term 1, or I want to write one English essay a week, get feedback on it, then consolidate my weaknesses. Once you've outlined your goals for each subject, allocate time according to how much is required to achieve those goals. 4 hours a night will tire you before long, and that's hardly conducive.

Also, another way to think of it is "I have to do 4 hours on x subject and 3.5 hours on y subject this week", as opposed to "I must spend 4 hours studying today". It means you can work flexibly and allocate time according to priority.

[Greatness]

To me 4 hours a night seems like a bit of an overload, but if you're up to it then go for it. Take regular breaks and remember to be efficient.

[werdna]

Woah.. that's pretty intensive. I tried doing that kind of thing last year, and the plan failed. Dismally.

So what I'll be doing this year are just daily plans/timetables. I made myself a set of timetables on Word that I printed out so I can fill in one a day. Some timetables are set in increments of 30 minutes, some in 1 hour. Basically what I'll do when I get home from school is jot down everything I need to do for that day, and allocate time accordingly. This makes your study/homework more specific to your needs and tasks. Having a clearly defined timetable lets you know how effectively you've spent your time too - for example, at the end of the week, you can scan through all your daily plans of the week and see how well you managed time. So I guess the main thing is to be specific with your study.. don't allocate 8 hours of study for every Saturday or whatever when that's not going to be the case for EVERY Saturday of the year.. I know it's important to have a fixated routine in VCE, but it's important to have flexibility too; and that means tailoring each day's work to what you really need to focus on.

In year 10, our history teacher used to give us surprise, random tests. She would never tell us when we were going to have a test, or what would be on the test, because she believed that you should be revising as much as you can on your own, and you should be able to work out what you need to work on and how regularly you need to work on it. I think this is important - you need to be able to have that feeling that if a SAC were to be thrown right at you, you'd be able to do it well.

(By the way, if you want some of these timetables I made up, I can email them to you.)

[Ghost!]

Too much work! You running a serious risk of burning out following this routine, which on it's own will be impossible to follow considering no timetable can account for things like nights were you wont be able to study at all.

[azngirl456]

This study timetable sounds very similar to the suggested timetable tsfx put in their succeeding VCe lecture

[Russ]

Why are you doing 4 hours a night? It's completely unnecessary in terms 1-3.
Start with 90 minutes, build up to 4 hours by the end of the year. Doing 4 hours Saturday morning is...ambitious. I never had a timetable this strict and did fine, just aim to finish off all outstanding homework on the weekend and then study in whatever time is left over on the Sunday.

[stonecold]

Ditch the 'Study Timetable' and just study.

They are overly ambitious and impossible to stick to, as well as ineffective.

Set yourself work goals, not time goals.

i.e.  Sit down and aim to do a chapter of maths, not 3 hours of maths.  It might take more time, it might take less time.  Who cares.  The main thing is that you get the work done.

[zibb3r]

@azngirl  Thats where i got the timetable from.  Seem a bit much to you?

[azngirl456]

@azngirl  Thats where i got the timetable from.  Seem a bit much to you?

I agree with most of what's been said in the previous posts. I don't advocate or adhere to study timetables because there can be a lack of flexibility involved in a strict study regime and you need to cater for the inevitable. It might take you longer than predicted to do things or you've suffered the quality of your work due to the strict amount of time you've allocated the task to. I think knowing specifically what you need to do each night for each subject is far more important.

But if you really think you need to follow a timetable, by all means do so, but just think of it as an outline and change it occasionally if you need to. Tsfx's suggested timetable might be effective if you're the type of person who has already been able to study intensly for a sustained amount of time. If not, don't feel afraid to add more breaks or lengthen your breaks. The last thing you would want is to burn out.

Here's a recent thread about study timetables
http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,36122.0.html