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Re-re-read Northanger Abbey. I read fast by skipping words, so I haven't gone through the book yet word-by-word, which is not a good idea when you're doing language analysis. If this is the error that I've made in the past, hopefully I can correct it now so I actually know what happens in detail. I've also made a really great bookmark to help with this! As well, I'm going to make some quick notes on the different ideas/techniques used in the book.
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Start to crack down on Product Design revision. We haven't learnt everything because we concentrated on the coursework aspect first (because it was worth 60% of the grade, probably) but since that's over I'm going to go over what we've already learnt (design movements, scales of production etc.) and then look at the textbook at other areas we've just touched on.
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Find difficult vocabulary from French 'healthy living' topic. So we did this topic quite recently but I never really get that good a mark when we do vocabulary tests, so I'm going to do some sets on Quizlet.
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Re-re-read Northanger Abbey. I have not done this yet. I've gotten part of the way through though, so with luck I'll finish and pick up some useful info on the way.
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Past paper for English Language. The less that's said, the better. This is something I have to do, and there's not much to it except knuckling down!
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Revise organic chemistry. I'll have to get out the textbook and make notes on carboxylic acids and esters particularly, as we didn't spend much time on them in class and that scares me as I may not have learnt anything about them. I also need to go over my chemical tests since my last end-of-topic test on those was embarrassing (flame tests were okay, but I started making stuff up by the time we got to finding out the halides and also ended up with some rather interesting precipitates.)
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Find quotes for major characters in Northanger Abbey. I've already got some possibles lined up and I intend to have more quotes for the central characters (Catherine, Henry and Isabella) because they're the ones that I'm going to want to discuss. I'll still get some for the more minor characters though.
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Memorise Pliny texts. 'A Day in the Life of Pliny the Elder', 'Death of Pliny the Elder' and 'Arria'. I'm most confident with the first and the third ones because they're shorter and I find some of the vocabulary a bit less tricky but the Death one is the longest so it's really the most major and the one I want to focus on.
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Applications 1 past paper(s). I've got last year's paper because I think that using the previous year's paper is one of the most useful things to do because it'll be the closest in format to what you're actually going to be doing. I'll then mark that and if I have time I'll do another one from a while back.
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Go over case studies for Geography and make sure that you're up to date with the question words. Even when I think that I've revised, I trip up on some questions just because I don't know the question words, e.g. 'illustrate' and 'outline' and don't know exactly what I have to write.
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Geography question words again and also recapping 'The Restless Earth' case studies. It's carrying on what I did yesterday mainly. Although what you really need for case studies are the effects or responses of the thing in question, it's nice to throw in a few facts which I'll try to pick up by going over my case studies.
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Memorise Pliny texts. I've got a past paper for the Latin prose which I'll check my understanding of the texts with. My best tip for doing these Latin pieces where you have to translate is to write out the translation you've got and then get a blank copy of the Latin text and try to write your translation with only the Latin, making sure you've got the tenses right especially. Sometimes it sounds better in a slightly different tense than what it's written in when you translate into English (e.g. some imperfects need to be perfects in order for it to be good English.)
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