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24.03.24

Day 7/ Day 9

Okay, only 1 more day until suffering kinda ends for like 2 months? Anyway, it was a productive day but I still have a ton of stuff to revise.

Completed:

Part IV of 17 lessons out of like 33 (T-T)

Revised MCQs

Need to revise:

Part IV of 16 more lessons

Gonna be a long night

Total hours of study: 6 hours and still counting (Updated: 8 hours)

23.03.24

Day 6/ Day 9

It was a really productive day to be honest, i completed:

Part I - III in about 29 lessons

Revised notes

Wrote some new notes

(An overall, we have 4 parts in each lesson and totally we have about 33 lessons T-T)

Total hours of study: 8 hours {I shocked myself too, I'm damn tired}

Discussion after an exam:-

Friend 1: You know, for the first four MCQs we got only C! Friend 2: I got D for everything.... Me: uh... I got an A,B,D,C *The three of us staring at each other realising we are in deep trouble* A classmate: I got A,B, A, B *Silence*

22.03.24

Day 5/ Day 9

Not a very productive day but I did:

Glance through the important questions and case studies

Revised MCQs

Total hours of studying: 1 hour 30 mins

21.03.24

Day 4/ Day 9

I completed my exam today and nothing else unless reading an extremely cringey e-book counts xD

So yeah... and my exam was meh... not too good, not too bad. I still have like one exam left and then I'm done with junior year!

20.03.24

Day 3/ Day 9... It's the night before my 2nd last exam, gosh, I want to get it done T-T

Despite my exam being tomorrow, I ended up reading an e-book for the majority of the time but nevertheless i revised quite a lot...

Things i completed today:

Finished almost the whole textbook

Revised MCQs

Watched an hour of lectures covering important topics

Need to complete:

Review the notes one last time today (✓)

Revising MCQs again (will complete early in the morning)

Revising 4 important lessons again (✓)

Review 8 important questions/topics (✓)

Total hours of study (still counting): 4 hours

Updated: Total hours of study- 6 hours

19.03.24

Today was a lazy day, I just slept and studied for only sometime... But Day 2 is done!

Day 2/Day 9

Today i completed:

Two lessons in accounts

Revised MCQs

Reviewed notes

Total hours of study: 2 hours

18.03.24

I'm gonna start a countdown till my last working day of junior year which is 26.03.24 so...

Day 1/Day 9

Over-all, a productive day, i studied for six hours (still counting) and completed:

Revised 7 lessons in Business Studies

Revised some important questions

Did some previous year questions in Accounts

Reviewed notes

Things I have to complete in Accounts:

Review more notes (✓)

Revise 3-4 lessons (✓)

Revise MCQs (do not have the energy T-T)

Updated:

Total hours of study: 7 hours 30 mins

16.03.24

Today was kinda productive to be honest, i finished:

Four lessons in accounts

Completed a previous year question paper

Reviewed notes

Exam Revision

So, I have about two more exams and then I'm done with junior year! So, here's an update on my revision

Goals for today:

Revise 1 lesson in accounts

Review notes

I'm keeping it short cause i literally just had a very lazy day and it's kinda late so, I'll probably just finish up smaller things. Better doing something than nothing, right?

Exam Revision Progress

I swear, sometimes revision is the most exhausting phase in any high school year T-T

Please don't mind my messy notes, for some reason my brain cannot just process neat notes. It's like we're enemies but nevertheless, I managed to finish quite alot and tomorrow is another long day :")

Study Tip - 1

Well, the first study tip I'll be posting is definitely this, i don't think I've seen this before but it's something I've definitely scored better with.

Know your question paper format and marking schemes

First with question paper format, by that I mean, how your question paper is going to be... Like, how many MCQs? Number of explanatory questions? Total marks for each question and sections etc etc.

Marking scheme basically refer to how you'll gain marks in your answer sheets. Suppose you have a question for let's say, 3 marks. Then you should find out how much you need to write for those 3 marks, if it's three points or half a page etc etc.

Some things that definitely carry extra marks:

Definitions

Diagrams

Graphs/tables (if there are any)

Codings

Additional info like Criticism, Applications, Exceptions etc

Formulae

Examples !!!

I cannot highlight this enough because it shows you how you have to portray and answer each question. The more you write your contents, the higher chance there is to get extra marks

Where can you get your marking schemes and paper formats? The most accurate and precise way would either be your subject teachers or previous question papers or asking your seniors.