Time Management: Study Vs Homework (1 Viewer)

[Studentleader]

Alright, probally the only decent thing I have heard from various lectures/hand outs on year 12 is that study and homework are different things, and that study time doesn't equal homework time.

At the moment my only study is staying behind school for 2-3 hours with a group of 1-3 friends and looking over study guides, doing practise tests, completing some school work and writting notes.

Unfortuantley, this amount of study isn't sufficent for me (I think in HSC terms i'm doing 12 units [4 of maths, 2 chem, 2 physics, 2 english and 2 economics?]) so I need to do atleast like 30 mins of each a night (adding up to another 2 and a half hours.)

With 1 hr break for dinner, i'm up to around 8:00-9:00 PM now.

Now I have no time for homework?

How do you keep a study timetable with respect to homework?

(I am aiming for a UAI of 90-100)

EDIT: I just ordered my Dell XPS M1530 (Laptop) which i will have in a week, should help with study?

 

[Rhanoct]

I don't really get much homework from school and most of it I do in my free periods/class.

Study for me is writing thorough notes, shortening them into dot points, then writing walls of text. If I have time I do past hsc/teacher's essay questions (we have a whole list to work on).

Laptop won't help ^^

 

[me121]

Stuff homework. Most of the time its a waste of time. I never did it. But, I did study and so should you. Studying is much more important.

 

[tommykins]

Ratio of "homework" as opposed to "study" (unrequired work) should be 4:1.

 

[Kujah]

^Agreed. The amount of homework I get is unbelievable sometimes, and I've only been able to study for my half-yearlies a week ago.

 

[.x.Cookie.x.]

I have like 30 Modern History questions to do for homework for the weekend + all the other work i have. I don't see much studying being done this weekend.

 

[me121]

You should be prioritising study before homework. That's what I did. And that is only my opinion though.

 

[Studentleader]

You should be prioritising study before homework. That's what I did. And that is only my opinion though.

Yeah thats fair enough,

Thing is i'm an artistic learner, I love anaylisising and comparing my results, I have a graph of all my subjects in my room, how much % I have completed of the course (eg. about 15% of applicable maths on the X axis) against my % i got in the test on the y axis. Its good for finding trends and for exams easy to find where to proritise on work i didn't do so well in.

So yeah, homework really fucks me up as its a variable, this weekend I have ~15 hrs to do of my english project, ~2 hrs of calculus and i really dont have the time so homework eats into my study time :S

Looks like i should become more lazy with unrequired homework, pretty sure that teachers will understand lol.

me121, what did/do you do about chapter work? Do you just keep up with the class and work a bit at home?

 

[me121]

me121, what did/do you do about chapter work? Do you just keep up with the class and work a bit at home?

What do you mean by chapter work?

 

[Studentleader]

What do you mean by chapter work?

text book work sorry

 

[me121]

text book work sorry

Well, I didn't to questions or problems from the text book. (maths i did a couple here and there, but not every single one). But I did read the text book.

 

[Aplus]

text book work sorry

Well in my classes at the moment the only subjects where text books are used is Maths. We have text books for all subjects but we don't really need to bring them to class.

 

[Studentleader]

Well in my classes at the moment the only subjects where text books are used is Maths. We have text books for all subjects but we don't really need to bring them to class.

lol :l

5/6 of my classes i need text books :S

 

[lyounamu]

I regard 'study' and 'homework' as separate entities. Even if it is called 'homework' I tend to complete at school and minimise the amount of homework that I do at home. Instead of doing homework, I study. I study and basically revise. I just do not wish to amalgamate my study patterns with homework that I can complete at school.

Therefore, if I can complete homework at school, I just do it at school. No need to take it home and do it.

Ratio of "homework" as opposed to "study" (unrequired work) should be 4:1.

Where did you get that kind of idea?

All my teachers say homework is "minimum" and tell us to do few hours more than that. I think your ratio should be reversed.

 

[Kujah]

We usually know what homework we have to do at the end of the lesson, and by then its too late to actually complete it during school time. And I wouldn't spend my recess or lunch time doing math exercises :S

 

[o.bi.sess]

It also depends on the subject you're studying/doing homework for. For subjects such as Maths, where knowledge needs to be applied, I would regard homework as being more important than studying. Knowing formulas and such is no good if you don't know how to apply them to problems and the best way to learn that is by doing the questions in the textbook (which should be your homework anyway). This is especially true if you're doing 4u maths.

Ditto for calcuation problems in Chemistry and Physics. However, the majority of the time would be spent studying: ie - revising, making notes and looking ahead (if possible). Besides, I find that teachers tend to ease up on the homework in science subjects and just expect you to study at home. However, you should always write up the practicals ASAP.

English is always studying - I never got any homework for it. So, know your related texts well, make thorough notes, etc., etc.

I didn't do economics, so I can't give opinions on that.

 

[Studentleader]

It also depends on the subject you're studying/doing homework for. For subjects such as Maths, where knowledge needs to be applied, I would regard homework as being more important than studying. Knowing formulas and such is no good if you don't know how to apply them to problems and the best way to learn that is by doing the questions in the textbook (which should be your homework anyway). This is especially true if you're doing 4u maths.

Ditto for calcuation problems in Chemistry and Physics. However, the majority of the time would be spent studying: ie - revising, making notes and looking ahead (if possible). Besides, I find that teachers tend to ease up on the homework in science subjects and just expect you to study at home. However, you should always write up the practicals ASAP.

English is always studying - I never got any homework for it. So, know your related texts well, make thorough notes, etc., etc.

I didn't do economics, so I can't give opinions on that.

Good response thanks

So your saying with subjects (like physics) you have 2 components:

Theory and Formulas

Formulas are what you do for homework and theory is what you study? (bit of interlapping i know, i wouldn't just study theory)

 

[me121]

Good response thanks

So your saying with subjects (like physics) you have 2 components:

Theory and Formulas

Formulas are what you do for homework and theory is what you study? (bit of interlapping i know, i wouldn't just study theory)

but in hsc physics, the calculations are pretty basic most of the time. most are just plug and chug. i prefer to do past paper questions rather than those from text books, because the past paper ones are more representative of what you will get in exams and your hsc.

 

[Studentleader]

but in hsc physics, the calculations are pretty basic most of the time. most are just plug and chug. i prefer to do past paper questions rather than those from text books, because the past paper ones are more representative of what you will get in exams and your hsc.

Yeah,

last year they combined all the heating+cooling with electricity and motion in the exam (which no one had experience with) so everyone fucked up :S

Looking at some of the chem questions, they are pretty different compared to school books

 

[SpoonSamba]

OMG you do so much work!

i think do your homework, then study. But if the homeworks not really helpful just do it crap i do most of mine in homeroom lol. BUT it is useful in consolidating your knowledge and if you do your homework you don't have to study so hard later because you know and understand the content.

And I think you study too much anyway, 20 minutes a night a subject is heaps at this stage. But I admire your discsipline, my mum wishes i had some of that sigh...