How are you feeling about Prelims?

Oo, lucky you with study leave for prelims! Do you think you'll benefit from it, or work better in school?
Art is a pretty time consuming subject! Is it the quantity of work overall, or is it managing your time that you're struggling with, or something else?

My Prelims started this Monday. I did only have 1 this week though - National 5 Spanish but next week I have German, French, Geography and English.

How did it go?

Honestly, Spanish was a lot easier than expected. And usually P&N papers are harder but it didn't even seem hard.

I sat my prelims earlier this week, majority of them are next week. I just hate prelims my school does them so close together and it's so frustrating cos you've only got that night to study for your next prelim.

got my nat 5 prelims in the first week back after the Christmas holidays
I really want to do well but I'm not sure how to manage my revision time right now. Anyway I've still got an assignment to do next week so once I've got that out the way I can focus on my prelims.

I’m really glad that I get prelim leave actually even though I’ll probably go into school to study and to ask my teachers for help. I am struggling in general, I have made a study timetable and doing my best to stick to it but I’m already behind in art work, it’s just very time consuming and trying to do homework and study in time for prelims is extremely hard. How are you with school at the moment?

My Prelims started this Monday. I did only have 1 this week though - National 5 Spanish but next week I have German, French, Geography and English.

Hope that your assignment next week goes well!

In terms of managing your time, make sure you are allowing and allocating time for things you enjoy and the festivities, alongside your studying. I found making a plan useful, providing you don't spend all of your time making the plan! While you're still at school, you can be doing a bit of revision on the evenings/weekends, but make sure you're keeping up with homework etc. and that you get everything you might need before you stop for the holidays!

thanks! do you have any specific advice for revision techniques?

The biggest advice I can give you is to use your Nat 5 prelims to find out which techniques work for you...Anything active, like mindmapping, flashcards, etc. is likely going to be more effective than passive reading. There's some pretty good advice in these threads- 1 and 2
Find out not only which techniques work best for you, but what sort of environment, time of day, music/no music, electronic vs paper, etc. you prefer.
There's no one answer for which revision technique will work best, as most often, a combination of methods will work best, and it varies from person to person. Hope this helps

thanks for the links to those threads

Sounds like Spanish went well from your other posts! Hope that the others go well too

Honestly, Spanish was a lot easier than expected. And usually P&N papers are harder but it didn't even seem hard.

Thank you so much for the advice! I know, I think I’m setting unrealistic study goals each night and just getting too tired. We are supposed to have nearly finished 4 development drawings but I haven’t completed any yet. I have a maths test tomorrow which I’ve been studying for and I have a english past paper tomorrow which is getting marked. This week I also have a French reading a writing past paper and I have to memorise a whole job application in French not to mention all the homework!!!!!! And then trying to study and revise at the same time. Right now I’m just finding it hard to stay motivated and I’m tired so the information just doesn’t go in. I’m a bit of a mess right now ahahah 😅

My higher prelims start just after the Christmas holidays and I'm really nervous!!! I feel like we've only just started the course. Can't believe how quickly they've come around and the thought of them is really scary!

No idea how we're in December now either! Seems like only just yesterday you were doing your Nat 5s!

What's your revision plans for over the holidays?

I know right, sometimes I forget that I'm not still doing Nat 5s. It sure does feel like yesterday.

I'm gonna make a timetable tomorrow for my revision over the holidays. Yup - I've left that to the last minute as well, when will I learn!