sorry i’m late to the party (GYGs)

i don't watch the apprentice, it's not my type of thing
i don't mind how frequent your updates are- do what's best for you
going to a uni open day on saturday good luck with that practice test, it's good to take some initiative

Oh have fun on Saturday, do you mind mentioning where you are going to see?

I've had a fairly productive day today, so I thought I would blog about it.




This morning I went on a swim and then afterwards and I met up with my friends for lunch. I had a crepe. Yum! Then I came home and I actually revised some of the trickier topics in maths for my prelim on Tuesday, including; trig equations, some problem-solving questions using the discriminant and trig exact values. On Saturday I am going to try and do a practice test and I'm hoping for above 80%. Anyway I writing this post just before watching The Apprentice tonight, does anyone else watch it? I'm looking forward to making a murderer season 2 coming out this weekend.
On a more solemn note, tomorrow is the 1 year anniversary of the death of one of the people in my class so lots of people in our year are going out tomorrow.
Questions:
Do you enjoy me giving updates a few times a week or would you rather once a week- if I did them once a week they would generally be longer?
How is your week going?
Do you have any plans for the rest of the week?
Have you watched making a murderer season 1 and will you be watching season 2?

That sounds like a great day. Idm about when you update, it's your GYG. Week is ok, I'm just annoyed at my school as usual. No I've never watched that series, is it any good?

The Apprentice is quite dramatic and it is funny to watch. And Making A Murderer is a good binge watch on Netflix if you have some free time. Oh no, what has your school done now? Have a good rest of the week

exact values for trig i never could learn them either, think i was lazy though
quizlet and memrise are both really good i applaud anyone who's doing french and spanish
hope you're okay lovely, anniversaries like that can really hit you hard always here if you want to talk!

Just hate them values. Though 98% of the time they only come up in 1 mark questions so I'm not gonna beat myself up too much about them.
It was a mistake to pick up Spanish, however it is more of an enjoyable language than French I find (sorry french people).
It is just life I suppose
Have a good Sunday and the rest of the week.

Ahh, finally the October week was upon me.I am writing this on the Sunday before I go back to school. It is fair to say that I have had a productive week and I am starting to feel a lot more confident in some of my subjects.

Study Highlights and Lowlights:

Before you ask, yes I think I did just make up a word (lowlights).
Anyway, this week I have worked very hard on my maths prelim on Tuesday and Thursday, just today I have finally understood the topic of parabolas. However, I am still struggling to learn my exact values for trigonometry as I can't seem to learn facts that don't really have any use in the topic apart from 1 question so I am just going to leave them out and hope that they don't become part of a bigger problem in non-calculator because no matter how hard I try they just don't sink in.
I have finished making all of my unit 2 flashcards for chemistry (up to where we are so far) and I am hoping by the end of next week I will of made all the unit 1 flashcards so I am up to date on them. I am actually understanding chemistry so that is good. I haven't done any work on biology but when we go back we have our write up which is worth 20% of our grade that will be this Tuesday when I first have biology. But I think I should be sorted because you can take in all the notes we have been working on in class with us. So hopefully I haven't missed anything out.
I am starting to get a bit stressed about languages (especially Spanish) as there is so much vocab to learn, but I just discovered a site called https://www.memrise.com which is a flashcard app which has a lot of pre-made flashcards on it . Personally, I prefer it to quizlet but I know lots of people like quizlet. On Thursday I have a French writing test so I will let you know how that goes.
For music, I haven't worked as much as I wanted to on my flute but I am sure it will be fine.

Personal highlights and lowlights:
This week has been a bit of a struggle mentally and emotionally. I do want you to know that I do struggle and I am not always happy as I know that sometimes online it can be put on that people are perfect.
On Thursday I had a very tough day as it was the one-year anniversary death of one of my classmates and it was just all in all a bad day. There have been tears, I'm not sure if my emotions were heightened because I did get my period but I have been crying quite a bit this week but luckily not over school.
However the next day I went out with friends for brunch and later we went into town to see a show. I have been doing a lot of swimming this week to keep my mind from things and just to relax. Personally, I forgot how much I like to swim just for fun and not for a club, I think I will be trying to incorporate swimming more often into my life just for fun to relax.
Just a wee shoutout but I have been loving @MaizieAmyr GYGs !
Tonight I am going to go to bed for half-past eight (watch me break this) so I am well rested for school tomorrow. For the upcoming week, I want to almost take it slow and ease myself back into school but I know that the school will be piling work on now that we are onto the second term. There are only 5 weeks left until my prelims/mocks in December aghh!

Questions:
Have you had your October break yet? If so how was it and if not when is it and what do you plan to do during it?
Does anyone have any tips on how to relax during school?

For trig values there is a little trick so you can 'work them out' rather than memorising them, have you thought of that? I saw someone on here have an exampl. I'll attatch it if I find it. (attatched)
I'm sorry for your loss. I find that on those kind of days, the best thing is to keep busy. Meet up with friends etc so you don't have a chance to think about it.
Thank you so much.
And did you go to bed at the correct time?
For me relaxing during school is I watch some TV at the end of the day to give myself a break. I listen to music whilst studying (I try to avoid stuff with words though. I really like stringspace atm ) and if I'm stressed or struggling I take a day off or I do something easy or fun study wise (which just means physics. )
Hmm how about... @Missradioactive @SomMC1

Best of luck xoxox
Nice to see Scottish GYGs!

Thank you
are you sitting any exams this year? If so what are they?
Ngl I keep getting confused by what is a GSCE (?) and an AS Level, I am confusion.

glad to hear your maths tests went well!
we played netball sooo much at our school during pe that basketball just ended up turning accidentally turning into netball (that's what you get for playing netball too much)

Good morning everyone,
It is currently my October week/holiday so this week I am trying to fit in revision for my subjects while going out with friends however it is proving to be a challenge because whenever I start trying to make revision resources I want to finish the entire jotter worth of notes instead of just one mini topic. So I think I maybe have a bit of a case of perfectionism.

Here has been the overview of the last term;
I'm going to do this by subject because I can't remember what I did each week (however next week I will start doing things on a weekly basis on what I did each day) okie doke here we go,

Chemistry
- we have been working through Nature's Chemistry unit, so just things like alkanes/enes/alcohols and fuels etc, I have been pretty good at revising this topic as I have been making flashcards as I have gone. Just before the break we had a mid-unit assessment and somehow I managed to get 21/23 so I'm really happy with that result. I think for the rest of the year I should just keep making my flashcards and hopefully, everything should be all good.

Biology
- at the start, we were finishing off the cells unit with photosynthesis and respiration. We had an end of unit assessment and if I'm honest I didn't really revise for it I just read over my notes. I got 83% in that test (I think) that is still an A but I know that if I actually revised more I would have done better. Now more recently we had done our national 4 assignment (as a backup) which I passed. Now we have been working on our National 5 assignment which is 20% of our grade, we have our final write up the first 2 days that we come back. I'm hoping that everything will go well.

Spanish and French
- I've put my languages together as we have been doing the same things in each. We have been doing the topics past holidays and health. We haven't had any tests or anything, I am a little worried that all the vocab might catch up on me so I am going to start to try going over my vocab every night.

Music
- So we have finished the topic of Baroque in listening in music and I got 28/31. If I'm honest all I did for revision was read over my notes the night before as music comes really naturally to me and it was only a few concepts that I was unsure of. In performing I am doing flute and keyboard. I have been working really hard on my tone in the flute and I think it has improved. I have gotten 1 song under my belt so far on the keyboard so I have 4 songs all together now which I could play which is more than enough, however, I hope to get another song this term. On flute, I have been finishing off the grade 4 book and we are moving onto some grade 5 pieces so I will be fine for my Nat 5 since that is only grade 3. I am in 3 musical groups 1, my school band, 2, The orchestra for my constituency (not gonna say what it is) and 3, a celidh group which I just joined. On composition, I have only done that for 1 period so far but I am doing a wind quartet so hopefully, it should all be good.

English
- We have been working our way through our Scottish poems which I am really starting to enjoy. RUAE/Close reading is becoming easier which is good and my portfolio is coming along nicely. The only thing which I think will be a struggle is the main text that I have to write my critical essay on because you only have 45 minutes and I find it really difficult to remember quotes so I am really dreading it. Personally, I've never been a fan of English, I just feel like it drags on and on.

Maths
- This year is totally different to last year, we no longer have tests every month but instead, we just have 3 prelims and the first one is actually next Tuesday and Thursday. I am not too stressed about it as I know that I know how to do things but I will need to refresh everything especially trig identities and straight line. Our teacher wants everyone to get an A band 1 and honestly I think that it is doable for me it is only the problem-solving questions I have tricky.

Thanks if you even read this, I know it was really long. Since this was an overview of the term this was extremely large but all the other ones will be a lot shorter.
My main questions this week are:
- How do you revise for English? Like remembering quotes, and techniques being used etc?
- Anyone have any good ways to revise for languages?
-What is your favourite subject (s)?

Here is my tag list:
@entertainmyfaith , @MaizieAmyr , @charlqtte
I just tagged everyone who has commented but if you want to be untagged just tell me I won't be offended. And if somehow you want to be tagged for this mess of a human being just comment below that you want to be tagged!

I don't like English either but unfortunately for most university courses you need a higher English for some reason