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Frustrated with homework

Anonymous1783

Anyone still getting too much work from school to actually start revising properly, i am and it is so annoying.

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Reply 1

hate_xams

I have got to the stage where I wish I could just stay at home now and revise, as we have finished the course in all of my subjects, and I'm doing nothing in school, its a waste of time.

Reply 2

purple-girl

Yup, I am. I'm at the stage where I just don't wanna work any more, I just wanna get the exams done, and get into sixth form!

Reply 3

generalebriety

I'm getting no work whatsoever, and half my lessons in school are free periods. Really not the right attitude, especially since we pay to go to my school. :s-smilie:

Reply 4

Hello_Kitty

I still have coursework/essays eating into my revision time. It is getting very annoying!

Reply 5

deutschsweetie

yeah i havent had half my french and german lessons this week and we have our orals in a weeks time!!! I dont even need or like chemistry and cant do it nd cant be bothered with it and doin anymore coursework at all as i dnt care what i get.. and in biology we need to finish the syllabus but keep going SO SLOW its annoying us now and i feel like today and yesterday i have no work whatsoever .. whats the point???

Reply 6

Lolly-88

I just don't do my homework...there's nothing my teachers can do if i don't do it except give me a verbal warning...how scary :rolleyes:

! I really hate the way teachers impose their ideas of revision onto everyone. E.g. some of my teachers seem to think that re-writing our notes again and again in grids and charts and flashnotes etc is going to help...which for some people it will but for others it's a bloody waste of time, ink and paper.

Also getting us to do practice questions (without warning)..which is helpful if we've already revised the topic but if we haven't then obviously we'll do poorly and then it just makes me feel really crap about myself....stupid teachers! :frown:

I really think that once we've covered everything on the syllabus lessons should not be compulsory and we should not get homework. Everyone has different styles of revising and revision lessons just won't work as there is always going to be some people who get no benifit from it (me) and would be better of revising by themselves.

Sorry for the rant! :redface:

Reply 7

Anonymous1783

"Also getting us to do practice questions (without warning)..which is helpful if we've already revised the topic but if we haven't then obviously we'll do poorly and then it just makes me feel really crap about myself....stupid teachers!

I really think that once we've covered everything on the syllabus lessons should not be compulsory and we should not get homework. Everyone has different styles of revising and revision lessons just won't work as there is always going to be some people who get no benifit from it (me) and would be better of revising by themselves."

So true someone else is the same, especially past papers when i cant do them i feel more incapable, i just need some time.

Reply 8

kellywood_5

I seem to remember still getting homework around this time last year, but mostly essays, which are obviously really helpful and probably count as revision anyway. If you don't feel the work you're being set is useful, don't do it and explain to your teachers that you think it will be more beneficial to you in the long run to revise in your own way. You're in sixth form/college, so it's not like they can do anything about it, and your final grades are much more important. Luckily my uni work seems to be slowing down now, so I can actually concentrate on revision. Or at least I can when I'm not procrastinating on My Space/Facebook/TSR.

Reply 9

Anonymous1783

The thing is its quite an up tight sixth form grammar school so they wouldnt really tolerate that i would get detentions and so forth.

Reply 10

Lolly-88

Anonymous1783

The thing is its quite an up tight sixth form grammar school so they wouldnt really tolerate that i would get detentions and so forth.

except that we don't get detentions at my college. If we don't work to a satisfactory level i.e. meet our predicted grades, or our attendence falls below 85% then we get made non-entry and our exams won't get sent off when we do them. :frown:

Reply 11

Dinoceros

Yup - it's annoying me soooo much! Rubbish I tell thee! Maybe we should all just skive, and start a national college-coup so we can actually pass our exams, instead of wasting time going to General Studies and leaver's assemblies! Anyone interested........? Just me.........? Okaaaaaaaaay.......

I am interested

We're not getting hardly any work but I haven't started any revision either. In the last three and a half weeks I've done some poetry essays that weren't set, and then two geography questions last night. I'm lazy. But we aren't being given anything to do in class either. In science we're frantic to finish the course, which we're nowhere near doing, so we just copy continuarlly all lesson. In art we sit there and talk about prom and do finger painting and put it in the bin aftewards (we've done the exam). In English we finish about 20 minutes early and then just talk. In sociology we get given sheets and then talk with the teacher about random things all lesson. In gegraphy we just play games.

'The villiany they teacher me I shall execute', ie they aren't giving us any work at school so I can't be bothered to do any at home either.

Reply 14

kellywood_5

Anonymous1783

The thing is its quite an up tight sixth form grammar school so they wouldnt really tolerate that i would get detentions and so forth.

You get detentions in sixth form?!! :eek:

That's ridiculous! In that case, maybe you could try having a quiet word with your teachers and asking them politely if they'd consider cutting down on the homework to give you more time to revise?

Reply 15

quintsy

It's exactly the same situation for us at the moment- I would revise, but we've been getting so much homework that I can only do what's been set before I'm so tired I have to go to bed. :p:

I think they should leave it up to individuals as to how much work they do at home right before the exams, because doing questions on really specific topics might be okay before an end of unit test; but not when that topic might represent one question on an exam at the maximum.

Reply 16

sorcière

Luckily I'm not getting much homework, except for History where I have to do lots of essay plans and practice essays for the exam. That's not really going to help me, I need to learn the facts. Plus we do at least 3 essay plans in class so that's like 9 a week, I think that's plenty, I shouldn't have to spend my time doing that at home.

Reply 17

Becky_90

Thankfully for one of my subjects we've just done the final tweeks to our coursework and now can start revision etc for the exams.

As for my others, we are frantically trying to finish the syllabus before the exams, hence getting plenty of work to complete at home which kinda hinders trying to get any revision done.

Reply 18

Horatio Caine

In psychology we are behind, I've explained this is another thread so I'm not going to explain why, but this obviously means we haven't got the lesson time to complete every single booklet - meaning the teacher just tells us to put a 'H' on the bits she wants us to do at home, she did make a point of saying it wasn't compulsory though.

We have got an essay due in for Tuesday - which is compulsory and I finished it before. Simply to free up my weekend for relaxation/revision and just so it'll be marked for next lesson rather than me handing it in on my next lesson. I've also got work due for IT, and research for film studies plus past papers and revision for English.

I've constantly got work to do, and even if I don't do well in the exams, it'll just be a huge relief to get them over and done with.

Reply 19

Eau

generalebriety

I'm getting no work whatsoever, and half my lessons in school are free periods. Really not the right attitude, especially since we pay to go to my school. :s-smilie:

You're weird... :s-smilie: