Is it possible to enjoy revision?

I've just been told off by a friend for not actually enjoying revision.

Am I the only one that sees it as a means to an end only? Is it possible to feel fasciantion with transport in multicellular plants, when the sun's shining and you could be elsewhere, and everyone else in the house is living it up?

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Reply 1

kellywood_5

I guess you might enjoy revision if you're doing a subject you're passionate about, but even then it's a stretch. Even if under normal circumstances you enjoy a subject, it's difficult to enjoy all the memorising and testing and stressing involved in revising it.

Reply 2

*River

, it's a means to get where I need to be for me. I certainly wouldn't do it otherwise simply for fun's sake!

Reply 3

Cataclysm

Well you are stuck for hours doing it, so you might as well try and enjoy it!

Reply 4

Elitist

I'm very confused. How can you possibly enjoy revision!? :redface:

Reply 5

Excalibur

I get satisfaction from revision but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's enjoyable :p:

Reply 6

Suc-Cesc!!!

In my opinion:

For essay-based subjects: if you enjoy reading up on the work then it's not revising, it's just casual reading.

For the sciences: if you enjoy reading/practising the work then it's not revising, it's just like doing a puzzle or, again, casual reading.

In conclusion: no, it is not possible to enjoy revision.

Reply 7

no1mohsin

I don't think it's possible to enjoy the act of revising, no. One may well read up on a subject s/he is interested in and is passionate about in their spare time but in terms of actually sitting down and memorising things or going over stuff you've already done, I don't think it's possible to enjoy out, just that there is satisfaction lying at the end of it, which is often misconstrued as enjoying the act of revising itself.

Reply 8

AisAis

Well when I read something I'm really interested in it's lovely to read it because you want to and without the pressure to memorise it as you go along. That's what's enjoyable.

Revision just means memorising things after you've had the initial, 'wow, I didn't know that' stage. So therefore I'd say no, it's not.

It doesn't have to be like hell, but I wouldn't say it's like, 'YES! I get to do revision tonight!'

Reply 9

Suc-Cesc!!!

AisAis

Well when I read something I'd really interested in it's lovely to read it because you want to and without the pressure to memorise it as you go along. That's what's enjoyable.

Revision just means memorising things after you've had the initial, 'wow, I didn't know that' stage. So therefore I'd say no, it's not.

Yeah that's a good way of looking at it. I agree with that.

Reply 10

Beautiful_Plumage

Revision is not fun. At all. But I guess there's a feeling of satisfaction after you've revised and realised it actually worked! :smile:

but when it hasn't worked, its not such a good feeling...

Reply 11

Triplet1

I quite enjoy revising actually :biggrin:

I mean i would prefer not to, but when i am revising i do enjoy it :p:

Reply 12

1sun

personally i actually enjoy studying, especially economics and maths, biology not so much, actually scratch that, not at all! sometimes i can study not because i have exams but because i like being productive and learning. like sometimes in the summer hols i'll pick up an economics book and do some notes or do some equations from a math textbook. studying takes up a huge part of my life, sometimes i think what else i would if i didn't have studies. abit sad really thinking about it.

Reply 13

Gooner

Well, I really love French and German - I enjoy studying the grammar for French, but the rest is a drag - however, I do love the outcome of it; being able to understand others speaking in an other language. I do loads of revision to get where I want to, but if I really hated it, I wouldn't do it. So, really, I think it's alright, not something i'd do if I had something better to do, but, you know :p:

Reply 14

Reverie.

I like music revision, like learning the concepts etc. I quite like bits of English, e.g. reading books and criticism. Everything else, I'd really rather not be doing (especially when the sun's shining).

I quite like the bit before the exams when you know loads of facts and everything seems to remind you of something you've learned, like going on a walk makes you think about trophic levels and detrivores... :p:

Reply 15

x.beth.x

I enjoy doing revision for History strangely, as I find it really logical and I love the way everything links in. Shame I'm not taking it for A level :frown:

I also love the genetics module and all the chemistry modules we do in science :smile:

Most of the subjects are alright, just mind numblingly boring. Maths I hate doing texbook questions and repeating the same methods over, I much prefer past paper questions where you have to use logic. Geography is just so easy to understand, but very uninteresting to read about. I usually do geography if I am feeling lazy or tired as it isn't particularly stretching.

Worst subjects that I hate and put off like hell are any sort of english and physics. Don't know why, I just hate them. I think the problem with me and english is that I don't know where to start taking notes in the novel or how to organise them. Physics modules for the final exam are crap. Most of the forces one is memorising equations and random facts. Some bits in the waves one are quite interesting like radiation, but overall is still pants.

Reply 16

Morgan141

I quite enjoy learning about my subjects, some of the concepts we learn about are really quite interesting. Actually revising them no, the enjoyment factor is dead when you go through it a second time round. The way I see it it's a bit like hearing a joke twice, the second time just isn't funny.