Anyone else sick of revision?

covert · May 2007

got my GCSE exams in the next few weeks. 18 exams in total. Im sick to death of revising. im sure im not actually learning anything, it just seems to go in one ear and out the other. im also half restricted from leaving the house until after my exams. so no riding for me [:(]
anyone else in a similar situation to me?

Stuff · May 2007

Nope I dont have abything to revise for.

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Jonny · May 2007

Yeah, same here. I don't mind revision though, it's slowly brainwashing me, and I'm beginning to enjoy it. Goddamn.

anto164 · May 2007

GCSEs dont need revision FOOL...

Just wait till you have, like i have, a handful of extremely difficult uni exams, THEN you need to revise.

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Big Red S · May 2007

I love these topics.

There's always someone on the next level of exams saying "your exams are really easy, i could pass them with no revision, wait until you get to where I am, they're much harder here".

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digdug · May 2007

how the heck can you have 18 exams... Surely you didnt take 18 courses? thats not possible...

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ride_whenever · May 2007

Trust me, you have it so easy. I have finals. in 2 weeks now.

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Stuff · May 2007

well science is at least 3 exams, history can be up to 2, languages in general have 2 exams. I imagine alot of exams have several parts to them nowadays.
As for there always someone higher up saying "ha you go it easy" well Im quite sure somewhere theres a Dr or something laughing at them stressing about there uni exams and above them a Proffessor. If your in Uni you should be aware or at least clever enough to realise like stress its all relative.

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clarkson · May 2007

yep, revisoin is boring me too. but i remeber gcse revison. i thought it was hard but aced the exams easily. not sure i'm going ot do the same with A-level.

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ride_whenever · May 2007

Actually as far as i can tell from actually talking to research staff, there is very little stress once you are past finals and still in academia. There is a lot of frustration and sometimes time pressure, but never as much stress... At least in the sciences anyway.

Also if people higher up the ladder don't complain to those lower down then they will not be expecting huge amounts of stress and so will crumple under the surprise of it!

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Stuff · May 2007

If people go into higher education and they are not expecting it to be hard then they really shouldnt be there

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Big Red S · May 2007

But the stress isn't (or needn't) be any more difficult.

GCSEs are about as difficult to a 16 year old as A-levels to an 18-year old. etc.

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homers_double · May 2007

When you leave school, thats when you start to learn.

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nicklouse · May 2007

revision? whats that!

rubber side up · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by nicklouse

revision? whats that!
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seconded.

would explain why i diddn't do brilliantly though [8)]

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jamiejim · May 2007

Im finding it hard to stay motivated. Any tips?

Red Lemon · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by anto164
Just wait till you have, like i have, a handful of extremely difficult uni exams, THEN you need to revise.
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Can I play this game too? Seeing as you're not final year and you're only on a bachelor's program, do I get to tell you that your exams aren't hard?

Or do we drop the arrogant bullshit?

JinjaNinja · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Red Lemon

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by anto164
Just wait till you have, like i have, a handful of extremely difficult uni exams, THEN you need to revise.
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Can I play this game too? Seeing as you're not final year and you're only on a bachelor's program, do I get to tell you that your exams aren't hard?

Or do we drop the arrogant bullshit?
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clarkson · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by jamiejim

Im finding it hard to stay motivated. Any tips?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">yeah, ususally my problem. i tend to do a morning of really hard revision and themn promise myself that in the afternoon, i'll go out for a ride or out with my mates or something. that usually works. also if you make your revision interesting, you're less likely to get distracted.

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Red Lemon · May 2007

Your myspaz profile says it. Doesn't really make any difference, seeing as years 1 and 2 are always identical for bachelors and masters degrees of the same subject....

Edit: Anto deleted his reply. What is he trying to hide?

anto164 · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Red Lemon

Your myspaz profile says it. Doesn't really make any difference, seeing as years 1 and 2 are always identical for bachelors and masters degrees of the same subject....

Edit: Anto deleted his reply. What is he trying to hide?
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Because i didnt want to reduce myself to your level, only making more fuss, which tbh, i cant be arsed with.

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Red Lemon · May 2007

Haha, yeah, reducing yourself to my level. Of course. That's exactly why....

Stuff · May 2007

Im gonna join in sod it.
Well I have to learn everything ever written or known and yet to be written or known in the entire universe. I have 7 days to learn it all before my exam otherwise Mountain Bikes will be wiped from the universe and we all have to ride road bikes.
Im not detracting from the original poster just highlighting the "oooh my exams are harder than yours" Of course your exams are harder but you should be eminently qualified to take the exams as you signed up for them.

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Silver Bullet · May 2007

i'm pointedly not joining in the debate about other exmas etc...

however, i too am having trouble motivating myself, but did find a sort of solution to it - 'mum, i need some sweets to help me concentrate on my revision...'
it worked as well [:D]

i have 20 exams to do, excluding the frnch listening i did this morning and the french oral i had before easter....

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covert · May 2007

i can see what people mean when they say, higer up exams are harder than the lower ones. but surely its all got to be relative? so people who are sitting GCSE exams will think they are hard because thats all they have learned and is new to them. and people sitting uni courses for example will find them hard because what they are being tested on is new to them, and so they can easily say GCSE are easy. well of course thay are to someone that old. but not necasserly to someone sitting them for the first time.
i hope that made sense.

anto164 · May 2007

all you need in later life is maths and english really, as long as you pass them, you'll be fine.

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myspaz

jamiejim · May 2007

It is relative in a way, but it seems that loads of people can get good grades without revising at GCSE but would fail if they did the same at AS/A/degree/whatever level. The workload obviously increases as you get older

new freerider · May 2007

im revising for my AS levels in maths, physics, chemistry and french!! and its dam hard lol.

bobmcstuff · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ride_whenever

Trust me, you have it so easy. I have finals. in 2 weeks now.

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Respect, I only have first year exams. They're not particularly hard. And I only have 3, passed the other 3 modules already.

Only one I'm worried about is the maths one, I didn't do a maths a-level so they're making me do a "maths for geologists" module to make up for it. Man I hate maths so much.

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Red Lemon · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by covert
People sitting uni courses for example will find them hard because what they are being tested on is new to them, and so they can easily say GCSE are easy.
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Show a GCSE chemistry paper to a bunch of high scoring degree students and see how far they get. GCSE chemistry was utterly full of random shite that no-one can remember. It needs to be torn apart and rebuilt from the ground up.

Bit of a random aside, but there you go....

bobmcstuff · May 2007

I honestly did almost no revision for GCSE's. Whatsoever.

The only thing I revised properly was Maths, beacause I wanted straight A's and I wouldn't have got an A in Maths without revising. My dad said he'd get me a bike if I got straight A's, because he had no faith in me...

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