Attempts at revision
I’ve been having fun (ha) with revision this week, and have been realising how annoyingly difficult it can be. I started off with a plan of five fifty-minute sessions per day, but unfortunately this collapsed very quickly. To start with, I made the plan around the beginning of the last week of term, but by the end of said week I had had a load of homework and coursework that I wasn’t expecting piled on. This fried my plans because I had to set aside time for that. Additionally, I’ve realised that fifty minutes is too long and so have lowered it to forty with a twenty minute break. In the end I’ve only got through a small amount of what I intended, but at least I can learn from this planning mistakes and perhaps do better in the future. For starters, providing I can get my revision stuff between the houses, I will do a forty minute session after school every day – or so I hope. At the moment it’s mainly generating revision cards of notes to read through nearer to the exams, so it isn’t too hard – just extremely boring.
Revision in general isn’t something that I like because in addition to finding it unentertaining (strange thing is that I’m often interested in the material and will quite happily read it, but that is supposed to not be a very full-proof way of doing things) and also don’t really have the patience. My skills in it are exceptionally low because I’ve never really had to revise before and this means that now I’m having to learn how to do it (if there is such a skill) and this is somewhat difficult. I’m having to ask for a lot of help (in the form of verbal/e-mail advice) to work out the best way of doing it. Worst of all, I get a lot of contradicting messages about which methods to use :S
The rest of this holiday is going to be very hectic because I have this weekend, or some of it, away with our cousins in Surrey, then the 10th and 11th are at my Father’s house where the former is my Sister’s birthday, and finally I then have four days in a hotel in the Lake District, which will probably be spent revising if not reading through a pile of school-related books I need to get through. On this note, I’ve realised lately that I’m getting to a busy point in general. The other night on IRC I was working out how to use my new staffer abilities on OFTC (something which I will blog about individually), but I was also trying to juggle a meeting for ComProj (my last post) and several PM conversations on IRC and IM. Is this a bad situation?