sorry i’m late to the party (GYGs)

OP

Sounds like you're doing well so far! Always good to see SQAers doing GYG :biggrin:

Can I be added to your tag list?

You'd be surprised- different to what some teachers might tell you, a lot of courses (at least science based) at a lot of unis actually don't...Not that that stopped my old school making it mandatory to have English in your S5 timetable :rolleyes:

Yes of course. I think it is mandatory at our school to do it in S5 but it is such a drag English. Ugh.

Original post by Valeriex

Yes of course. I think it is mandatory at our school to do it in S5 but it is such a drag English. Ugh.

Can relate- absolutely hated Higher English :lol:

Reply 42

username4250206

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29th October- 2nd November

It's been a long tiring week. :frown:

And worst of all I found out that my prelims start in 4 weeks :eek3:

Editors note: I think I'm going to try and do more regular updates because this took me so long to write out. I'll try and make these shorter in the future.

MONDAY

Finally got my maths prelim results back and overall somehow I managed to get 58/60!!!! :excited:

So that stressing was for nothing. This makes me feel a little more confident for the actual maths prelim in December as I won't have to study it as much.
In music this week we have just been doing practical because we have our young performer auditions next Tuesday, which is just where you play in front of your year to see if you are getting through to the next round. I hope that I don't get through just because I'm too busy right now and I just don't want to. If I get through that's great but if not then it isn't the end of the world. :indiff:

Next was French and this day we did a past paper reading and honestly, it wasn't awful. After lunch I had chemistry every Monday we do a revision period and this is when I realize I have a lot of work to do because :argh:

I want to get a good mark in my prelim because I might be taking it next year. Finally, I had Spanish and my Spanish class is really small (there is only 8 of us in total) but today there was only 4 of us and we did some work on the imperfect tense and luckily it is straightforward. However, I think I copied down one of the wrong endings so I need to double check that. :colondollar:

TUESDAY
Maths again, this time we started area of a triangle (1/2absinc) and I like this topic because you just plug numbers into a calculator and bing bang bosh! :u:

After break I had biology and we started Unit 2 (Multicellular Organisms) which is human biology, finally. :party:

But we found out that we need to cover half of the unit for the prelim, I'm pretty sure our class is quite far behind. :afraid:

Then I had Spanish, we got our writing homework back and I had quite a few mistakes but my teacher said it had good potential for the writing assignment because I used a range of tenses. However, I would have to make it a bit longer. After lunch, I had Chemistry in which we finished off Carboxylic Acids. Which I admit was an easy topic but I've not learned it yet but I do understand it. And that is half the battle. :smile:

WEDNESDAY
Started the day off with chemistry. We went over the homework, which I got most of it right (this is not an achievement since I just copied my notes) then we started our AVUs (the national 4 backup assignment) we are doing it on alcohols and fuels but I only need to get 7 marks to pass and because it is Nat 4 it is easy to get marks. Then I P.E. we literally did nothing. fuN :laugh:

I've noticed that it is getting icy in the morning and I'm not happy about it at all. :argh:

English next, we continued annotating the poem Mrs. Midas, which I enjoyed because I love highlighting things in pretty colours. :nyan:

At the end of the day, I had biology we had finished of stem cells from the previous day and we moved onto the process of mitosis (haploids and diploids and stuff). Also HAPPY HALLOWEEN. :iiam:

THURSDAY
French. We did a past paper listening and I only got 2 questions right. So I decided that I need to go to the listening supported study's after school, which happens to be on Thursday so I actually went and there were only 5 people there (and 2 of them I forced them to come with me so I wouldn't be alone), I'm going to try and go to that often so hopefully my listening begins to improve. Afterwards, I had Spanish and we had a test, I think I've got most of the words right because it was a writing but I don't think we will get them back until next Thursday. :thumbsup:

Then I had maths and we were doing the cosine rule to find areas/angles and honestly I really like this topic because I can do the questions! :tongue:

FRIDAY
In English we got dates for practice exams before our prelims, (the week beginning the 19th we have a RUAE, TA and Critical essay) :eek:

. Finally started a new topic in French, employability. We started off nice and easy and just took some vocab on jobs. After school, I had band where we continued with Christmas Music (sorry I'm a believer that Christmas music shouldn't start until December. )
THIS WEEKEND
I must do
I should do
Maths Homework (deadline 2)
Revise area of a triangle (maths)
Spanish Imperfect tense homework
Revise all Spanish tenses
Make employability french flashcards
Revise French Unpredictables bullet points.
Duolingo- Spanish and French
Practice flute
Memrise music flashcards
Practice Keyboard
Go over Scottish Music
Make unit 3 biology revision resources (some)
Make unit 2 biology revision resources (only some)
Learn Mitosis and understand it.
Finish reflective essay.
Read
Finish unit 1 chemistry revision resources
Revise chemistry unit 1
QUESTIONS:
How do you revise English?
- I need help people
How do you revise listening in languages?
- I need help people
DId you do anything this Halloween?
- I was trying to do homework while answering the doors to the trick-or-treaters, I ran out of sweets so I started handing out coppers (oops)
What is your favourite dinner?
- Pasta carbonara.

Spoiler

Reply 43

absolutelysprout

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i revised english through making character notes, quote lists, context notes and mindmaps :smile:

oh yes, and exam practice too :lol:

i don't celebrate or like halloween :tongue:

well done on maths! :rave:

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username4250206

OP

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Original post by entertainmyfaith

i revised english through making character notes, quote lists, context notes and mindmaps :smile:

oh yes, and exam practice too :lol:

i don't celebrate or like halloween :tongue:

well done on maths! :rave:

Thank you so much for the tips :london:

Reply 45

username4250206

OP

17

Oh my goodness I was looking for a Halloween emoji earlier and I just found it :jacko:

Original post by Valeriex

29th October- 2nd November

It's been a long tiring week. :frown:

And worst of all I found out that my prelims start in 4 weeks :eek3:

Editors note: I think I'm going to try and do more regular updates because this took me so long to write out. I'll try and make these shorter in the future.

MONDAY

Finally got my maths prelim results back and overall somehow I managed to get 58/60!!!! :excited:

So that stressing was for nothing. This makes me feel a little more confident for the actual maths prelim in December as I won't have to study it as much.
In music this week we have just been doing practical because we have our young performer auditions next Tuesday, which is just where you play in front of your year to see if you are getting through to the next round. I hope that I don't get through just because I'm too busy right now and I just don't want to. If I get through that's great but if not then it isn't the end of the world. :indiff:

Next was French and this day we did a past paper reading and honestly, it wasn't awful. After lunch I had chemistry every Monday we do a revision period and this is when I realize I have a lot of work to do because :argh:

I want to get a good mark in my prelim because I might be taking it next year. Finally, I had Spanish and my Spanish class is really small (there is only 8 of us in total) but today there was only 4 of us and we did some work on the imperfect tense and luckily it is straightforward. However, I think I copied down one of the wrong endings so I need to double check that. :colondollar:

TUESDAY
Maths again, this time we started area of a triangle (1/2absinc) and I like this topic because you just plug numbers into a calculator and bing bang bosh! :u: