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The beginning of the light. Scottish studyblr Following from: confessions-of-a-horseaholic

[yellowtonin]

🌻 I’m lovingggg this Hormones and Behavior class!! It’s so interesting to learn about how our bodies work and what happens when things don’t go perfectly.

[studystea]

Went to school today after 2 days of inclement weather, and it doesn’t feel like a Friday •_• 
🎧TT - TWICE

[rairaifh-deactivated20200819]

history mind map💚💛 yeah, I’m true biology student but I’m filling my leave from college time with studying history!

[cuppa-studies]

Spanish vocabulary🍒

[incipient-lustre]

When you write the cursive with regular print together, which do you do first? Like, do you layer the cursive on top of the regular or is it the other way around?

Is this for the titles? If so then I do the regular first and then the cursive on top of that!

[incipient-lustre]

22/8/16 Today’s haul, just a few things for heading off to university!! (So sorry for not posting in ages, summer has been super packed!! Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me)

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Your blog is awesome! :) It helps me so much x

Thank you so much!! I am incredibly sorry I’ve been so inactive. I hope it is still of some use just now!!

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What were your results? I got a C for AH Bio :( I was predicted an A

Hey! I got As for AH biology and chemistry and higher psychology!!I’m sorry to hear that you should definitely appeal! It could be a mistake

[incipient-lustre]

Did you get into vet school? Or are you appealing your results?

Hi, sorry to everyone whose sent me asks and messages I will try to get back to you all at some point, I’ve been incredibly busy the past few months!!But yes I did get into vet school!!✨✨✨✨✨

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What do you major in?

Hey! We do things differently over in Scotland. But I’m going to university in a few months (provided I get my grades) to do veterinary medicine!What about you?☺️

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what textbooks would you recommend?

Hey! For what subject? Although I don’t think I’m the right person to ask!! The only textbooks I’ve bought are the ones my school has specified!!

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Do you have any active study tips?? Like tips for studying for exams? Thanks!

Hey! I’m just going to list a load of things that I find work for me! Start early! Push yourself to start today instead of tomorrow. Give yourself as much time as you can to study!Motivate yourself! For me, my motivation stemmed from the fact that I have a conditional offer for my dream course of veterinary medicine. I needed to study hard in order to reach the grades I need to get in! Practice questions! Cannot stress how important these are. I have been known to focus the bulk of my revision only on practice/past paper questions. For me, I find these invaluable, especially as I am a kinaesthetic learner. Even if you’re not, they provide you with a basis for what your exam will be like. Future questions may be similar. Summarises! I find that after I have gone through several past papers, they’re often areas which I am weak in. I like to make summaries of my notes on these areas until I feel confident with them! Rewriting notes! For me, reading notes doesn’t yield much benefit. Instead I prefer to rewrite old copies of my notes into more condensed versions which are simple and easy to glance over.Flashcards! I find these great for learning terms or steps in a reaction for example. Looking over them multiple times a day helps me to remember them. Take breaks! I learn and study so much better if I take regular breaks. For me, I find that a 25min with 5min breaks works for me. In that time I do nothing related to studying and clear my head for a bit so I am ready to continue.

I hope some of this has been helpful. I wish you the best of luck in your exams!! 🍀🍀

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5/6/16 Handwriting tag! Thank you so much @persephone-codes!! I tag anyone who wants to do this!

[persephone-codes]

how is your writing so perfect?

[incipient-lustre]

Omg😚 kinda rushed it slightly so it's a bit too messy for my liking😂 seriously though I love your handwriting like can i have it?

[incipient-lustre]

how do you revise for maths?

Hey! Maths is a very problem based subject. The way I revised for it was constantly doing practice papers, past papers and text book questions. At my school we had access to past prelim papers which was great because they are much harder than the actual exam. If you can get confident with those then you’re definitely on the right track!Obviously there is some concepts and things to need to learn and remember eg formulae or specific values and I found flashcards or sticky notes really helpful with this. I would place them around my house in places I would constantly see them. For example on the outside of the shower door so I could read them while I showered!!

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5/6/16 Handwriting tag! Thank you so much @persephone-codes!! I tag anyone who wants to do this!

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Some of me class haven't started studying and the test starts on Wednesday. Any advice?? 😭

Okay, so you’ve got 4 days. I don’t know if you’re in school at this point or not?What I would do:Focus. For me, the fast approaching test would motivate me to get down to grips with the work, but this may not be the case for you. If so, I would recommend looking at masterposts on motivation (I think @areistotle has one).

Manage your time. Obviously if you’re on study leave or something then you have full days to work with, if not that’s still fine. Select the most important parts of the course and focus most on them. Do practice questions and past papers - these are invaluable! If you can do them until they’re so easy and boring then you’re doing great! If you find you have time, make summaries of your notes/textbook/class presentations. Condense everything into a few sheets so it doesn’t take long to look at and review. This really doesn’t have to be the prettiest piece of revision ever, just choose a method which works for you.

Take breaks. Honesty I know I struggle to stop as I keep pressing myself to continue if I have only a short time until an upcoming test. But seriously, regular short breaks can help. Find a period that works for you, eg half an hour with five minute breaks. Don’t think about your studying during the break. Do some burst exercise or read a page of a book or even do some juggling (this really helps you to focus on something else for a short period).

Don’t panic. While a little stress helps to motivate me, too much overwhelms me and I cant work so well. This test is not the be all and end all of everything. Maybe you can resist it if you need to or maybe it won’t even matter at all what your grade is. There’s always other tests you can improve on.

Be positive. If you go into the test feeling like you can ace it, then you actually feel more positive and for me I feel like I can attack the questions much better.

I wish you the best of luck🍀 I hope I have been of some help (apologies if it doesn’t quite flow I wrote this really late at night).

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Hi, I want to study psychology in university and I would like to know which subjects did you take in school??

Hey! That’s ace! Well I’ve applied for veterinary medicine so my subjects will be different to yours probably! But I’ve done SQA qualifications, and I took AH chemistry and biology, higher psychology and then an add on GSCE astronomy this year!