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Originally Posted by PrawnCracker:

So yeah , ive got exams coming up real soon!  but i cant concentrate or really get started on my revision! any ideas?

 

Join the club Chicken..      Ducky & I are tearing our hair out at our younglings...   both of them about to sit A Level finals..    both of them with uni offers on the table... 

 

and are they knuckling down & studying?

 

no... no they are not!!!

 

We'll be grey by the end of it! 

Dirtyprettygirlthing

My son has started by burying his head in the sand and playing computer games instead. 

 

Today he has decided to bring his computer downstairs, so that I can glare at him everytime he's not got his nose to the grindstone. (Saves me stomping up and downstairs, or berating him on FB ).

 

Have you got anyone who can glare at ya Chicken?

 

Or maybe a study partner? I used to study with my sister at uni, and for A levels a friend. They weren't doing the same subject as me, so we didn't study together as such, but it was just nice to have someone else in the room going through the same experience.

 

Good luck!

Ducky
Originally Posted by Ducky:

My son has started by burying his head in the sand and playing computer games instead. 

 

 

 

oh.. yeah...  I have that one going on too..  

 

apart from the ongoing game apps on her iPhone, she also decided now was the time to start playing Animal Crossing on the DS again!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Chicken...      Ducky & I can glare at you a bit too if you like...      obviously our glares are not very intimidating...  they don't seem to do much good!

 

 

on a more serious & maybe helpful level - I bought my daughter some index cards...    she then writes out key stuff on each card.     I think perhaps they are less intimidating than a full sheet of A4 paper...    and she likes to look back on "how many she has done"...   proudly

 

 

 

*bangs head on wall a little bit*

Dirtyprettygirlthing
Originally Posted by PrawnCracker:

 gotta get my bum in gear do it!!

 

That really is what it all boils down to Chicken

 

Speaking of which....this bum is getting in to gear right NOW!

 

Do you do that thing where you can't start work till on the hour or on the half hour? I'm the worst at that! I missed 12:00...I missed 12:30....and now I'm sat here thinking I'll start at 1:00.

 

But you have inspired me Chicken! I'm off to break my habit and start on an odd looking time.

 

Are you gonna join me?

Ducky

Hi Chicken No advice for you really (I spent the nights prior to all my exams getting drunk thinking I was a smartarse, I'll never know how I passed so many of them but do always wonder if I had knuckled down how far I would have got as opposed to where I am now) but just wanted to say all the best of luck with them and just try to clear your head of distractions and find a nice quiet place to get stuck in.  Start with your favourite subject and see if that draws you in then go from there.

 

And get off this forum!!!

Ells

Do it in batches of 20 mins or so   take a 5 min break then another 20 mins.

 

Do you have a special technique that you use??? I used to dictate most important bits onto a dictaphone and then walk around with it memorising and speaking it at the same time or typing it onto the computer - that worked for me but won't for everyone.

 

Have you got a study buddy?  That can be very helpful as you can both/all ask each other questions and it's good to bounce ideas off.

 

Flash cards only putting the most salient points on and to give you and idea about what to fill up the rest of the question with.

 

Can't think of any more 

FM

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