I'm still here - honest!

I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since my last post, it's all got a bit crazy here with exams and whatnot, but I am still here - honest!

Totally snowed under with Biology and Psychology revision this week as I was ill during the first exams and messed up big time, so I need to ace these ones to bring my grades up.

Snowed under Psychology

Those of you that are observant may notice that i'm wearing shorts - DO NOT BE FOOLED! I'm only wearing them to convince myself that it is in fact, summer (it's not working). At 10am this morning, it was 10 degrees celcius, on the 30th May...less than a month before midsummer...

I've rediscovered a childhood love - My parents are aliens, I've actually ended up scheduling revision breaks for 14:30 and 17:30 just so I can tune into CITV and watch it! I know, I know, It's a bit sad for a 17 year old to be watching a kids TV show, but it makes me laugh and there's so much humour that I didn't pick up on 10 years ago!

I also spent a good few minutes exchanging "miranda memes" with a friend - and formed an entire conversation! (This was before settling down for revision)

In fact, all this Miranda talk is making me want to watch it, I'm going to have to dig out the DVDs any minute now! (Well, I have powered through todays revision and I need a good laugh!)

In fact, I can't contain myself any longer, I must leave now while I still have time before dinner.

Alons-y My hearty reader chums! (Anyone see what I did there...No? Just me then.)

2 down, 6 to go.

Well, today officially marked the start of the exam period for me, I arrived at school, as usual, at 8am, I then spent an hour drifting between last-minute revision and ultimate panic.

9am - TO THE SPORTS HALL, SEAT T11. (I thought the italics might make it seem more dramatic...no? Oh well.)

This was for my history exam on Race and American society 1865-1970s, I was well prepared for this exam(a little too prepared, it would seem), I had fairly good knowledge of the entire period and was fairly confident. 

On reading the interpretation, my initial thought was "well, that's a bit odd compared to all the past papers, oh well, I can still use the sources in the same way."

Oh boy was I wrong, barely ANY of the sources supported the interpretation and it was so difficult to find similarities between them as they varied so greatly and contradicted each other.

Despite this, I think I've done ok.

I then spent 10:30-11:20 trying to de-stress in preparation for my geography exam at 1, it wasn't very effective.

At 11:20 I went to my geography lesson (only 3 of us actually turned up!) and we went over some last minute facts and figures (but did any of them prove to be of any use in the exam..what do you think?..) before explaining to our teacher that we all have have a revision website: www.examtime.com following us on Twitter because we're such geography nerds. 

After this, we went to the sixth form block just to relax and try not to think about what was quickly approaching  and had a banana :P 

By the time we left at 12:50, I was feeling strangely calm, all the way until lining up outside. This didn't last.

This is was me about a minute before going in:

And this was my face afterwards:

I'll elaborate: there was little range in the topics that came up and it was very difficult to actually include any case studies in my answers, I managed to somehow though, it's difficult to explain but it was just...odd.

Come out of the hall at 2:30...straight to my history lesson for the Elizabeth Topic, we did a bit of revision on parliament and factions and my teacher gave us all a toffee crisp as a reward for the history exam this morning.

After this, it was FINALLY hometime, or so I thought...

I wasn't looking forward to waiting outside at the bus stop for 20 minutes in the rain but I knew i'd be home soon, little did I know that the bus had actually broken down and we'd have to wait over an hour for a replacement coach to pick us up.

Finally arrived home just after 5 and had dinner before doing some light biology revision and writing this post.

So exams are officially underway now and I just need to keep focussed for a few more weeks...and then another year...

I'd better go now and get on with some more geography or biology revision for round two.

Then I'm going to settle down in front of the TV (probably fall asleep in front of it - I'm knackered) and have the giant cookie my Dad bought me as a treat (he's seen how much revision I've done recently and felt I needed a pick-me-up)

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE ELSE WITH EXAMS! :D

REVISING CASE STUDIES

REVISING CASE STUDIES

Just thought I'd let you know how I've been revising case studies for geography (although I'll be using it for psychology and other things too.)

First: I write down the rough notes (as few as possible) on the topic, in this case: The Philippines as a hazard hotspot:



Next, condense these notes into revision card size on the same piece of paper (I drew around a card on my piece of paper)

. I've underlined in different colours to create an order to put on the real card.

I then copied these notes onto a flash card:

Finally, I do the whole Look,cover,write,check palava on another card outline to ensure that all the information has been digested :)

And that's it, I've done that for each case study and I'm feeling way more confident about using them in the exam on Tuesday now! :D

Good luck!!!!!!