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I have a lot of work to do but I've decided to give myself the night off because I haven't had a day off in the past 10 days so I am drained

Edit: I take it back. Time to revise biology
(edited 1 year ago)
Original post by thrivingfrog
I have a lot of work to do but I've decided to give myself the night off because I haven't had a day off in the past 10 days so I am drained

Edit: I take it back. Time to revise biology


Do pace yourself if you can, don't want you burning out :redface:

:hugs:
Original post by The_Lonely_Goatherd


Do pace yourself if you can, don't want you burning out :redface:

:hugs:


Yeah I ended up stopping after like 20 minutes because I just couldn't do it, slightly annoying but tomorrow is another day
Original post by thrivingfrog
Yeah I ended up stopping after like 20 minutes because I just couldn't do it, slightly annoying but tomorrow is another day


Just try and do what you can and make sure you have evenings off you don't want to be burning out in September :console:
Original post by thrivingfrog
Yeah I ended up stopping after like 20 minutes because I just couldn't do it, slightly annoying but tomorrow is another day

Please do schedule in downtime - you won't be able to work effectively if you're tired all the time :yes:
Original post by Saracen's Fez
Just try and do what you can and make sure you have evenings off you don't want to be burning out in September :console:


Original post by CatusStarbright
Please do schedule in downtime - you won't be able to work effectively if you're tired all the time :yes:


Don't worry, today has been a much better day :smile: had my meeting with the Oxbridge admissions guy and only need to add 1 thing to my ps now and then its done :woo: Caught up on all my biology work in my frees and now about to summon the last dregs of my energy and head to the gym

Gonna post a week plan once I'm back
Original post by thrivingfrog
Don't worry, today has been a much better day :smile: had my meeting with the Oxbridge admissions guy and only need to add 1 thing to my ps now and then its done :woo: Caught up on all my biology work in my frees and now about to summon the last dregs of my energy and head to the gym

Gonna post a week plan once I'm back

Nice one!
Turns out I never came back to write out my plan for the week, oops
I have assessments next week which is upsetting but I've started revising so hopefully they'll go well :smile:

Thursday:
Make mindmap on biodiversity ✅️
TSA paper 2009 section 1 ✅️
Revise for photosynthesis spot test (Friday) ✅️
Recap natural logs and exponentials- for some reason my brain just cannot comprehend this topic ✅️

Friday:
Mark biology paper ✅️
Psychology exam q sheet ✅️

Saturday:
Work 2-7 ✅️
Psychology exam q booklet
Biology homework sheet

Sunday:
Work 2-7
Maths revision
(edited 1 year ago)
Good luck for next week, cheering you on from here! Hope you've got a motivational playlist to power you through :danceboy:
Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn
Original post by thrivingfrog
Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn


Woah woah woah, you've still got a month to get yourself better practised and prepared for it! :console:
Original post by thrivingfrog
Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn


As above, you've still got a month to prepare for the actual thing. Don't yet lose hope - on the day, you could absolutely ace the actual thing for all you know.

Just like any other past paper you would do during your GCSE/A level studies, make sure you've marked it and found out where you've gone wrong so you can iron out your weak points.
Original post by thrivingfrog
Update! I did a TSA paper and have spent the past 15 minutes in tears so I don't think oxford is on the table for me rn

Well done.

It's important to try stuff and not get it right.
If you got 100% you wouldn't have learnt a thing.

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Also it's been years since I've properly followed any GYG blogs, perhaps I will give it a go again :smile:
Original post by thrivingfrog
I have assessments next week which is upsetting but I've started revising so hopefully they'll go well :smile:

Make mindmap on biodiversity
Make mindmap on investigating populations

Recap natural logs and exponentials- for some reason my brain just cannot comprehend this topic
We all have those topics. For me it's the Tudors and religion. Really don't like teaching it. :frown:
The trick is, for those really unpleasant topics, is little and often. Start really small and just keep chipping away.

Can I ask about the mindmaps - are you doing them from memory? :holmes:

And as for assessments next week, forget about them. Eyes on the prize: May and June. :wink:
I apologise if this rhetoric becomes annoying, but I've never seen the hype around mock exams/assessments etc. they're far more for the benefit of teachers than of pupils in my personal view.
Original post by Saracen's Fez
Woah woah woah, you've still got a month to get yourself better practised and prepared for it! :console:


Original post by TypicalNerd
As above, you've still got a month to prepare for the actual thing. Don't yet lose hope - on the day, you could absolutely ace the actual thing for all you know.

Just like any other past paper you would do during your GCSE/A level studies, make sure you've marked it and found out where you've gone wrong so you can iron out your weak points.


You're both on prsom :redface: think it just overwhelmed me because my score went down from last time and I was really hoping for it to go up so I was lowkey (highkey) disappointed with it. Turns out I just cannot do problem solving, which you'd think I'd be fine with given I do a-level maths but apparently not :colonhash:

I took a break and then went and did some questions just from the problem solving section so hopefully if I woke at that for a few days when I go to do another paper I'll have actually improved this time
Original post by 04MR17
Also it's been years since I've properly followed any GYG blogs, perhaps I will give it a go again :smile:

Perhaps you should :wink:

Original post by 04MR17
We all have those topics. For me it's the Tudors and religion. Really don't like teaching it. :frown:
The trick is, for those really unpleasant topics, is little and often. Start really small and just keep chipping away.

Can I ask about the mindmaps - are you doing them from memory? :holmes:

And as for assessments next week, forget about them. Eyes on the prize: May and June. :wink:
I apologise if this rhetoric becomes annoying, but I've never seen the hype around mock exams/assessments etc. they're far more for the benefit of teachers than of pupils in my personal view.


I actually really liked the tudors and religion in gcse :colondollar: the anglo-saxons on the other hand...

I basically make all my mindmaps twice. Sounds weird but let me elaborate, I write them up on my big whiteboard first completely from memory and then add the parts I missed in another colour. Then I write then up neatly on paper so when it gets closer to exams I can stick them up all over my walls- I did this for gcse and it worked really well so thought I should continue :u:

Mocks I can kind of get because we do full papers for them so it helps me to see where I'm at properly but end of topic assessments are irrelevant to me, they aren't even sending these grades home so I don't see the point
Just updated my to do list and now it's time to make my lunch for tomorrow :colone:
Original post by thrivingfrog
You're both on prsom :redface: think it just overwhelmed me because my score went down from last time and I was really hoping for it to go up so I was lowkey (highkey) disappointed with it. Turns out I just cannot do problem solving, which you'd think I'd be fine with given I do a-level maths but apparently not :colonhash:

I took a break and then went and did some questions just from the problem solving section so hopefully if I woke at that for a few days when I go to do another paper I'll have actually improved this time


I see. It could be that it was a harder paper than the last one - do you happen to know the average score of an offer holder, as that would be the best indicator of how difficult it was relative to the last paper you tried?

I think that it is great you have identified the type of question that loses you the most marks as that now means you have something to work on. It's even better still that you are already taking steps to iron out that particular weak point, where many would give up hope and fail to demonstrate such pragmatism in the same situation.
Original post by thrivingfrog
Just updated my to do list and now it's time to make my lunch for tomorrow :colone:

And sleep! :wink:

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