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monday 21st october

today i’ve done some useful life stuff, including opening a new savings account, doing some research into uni courses, and planning for the next half-term of school. i also went for a walk (taking the scenic route) to the shop to get some stuff for my mum. i love this stage of autumn when everything’s orange and crisp🍁

24/08/20

gravitation notes!

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biology flashcards for dayz son (to quote jake peralta)

🎶- bloom; the paper kites

here’s a lil timelapse of some feb weekly spreads !! : )

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wed 14 august

first day of school! an exhausting and mentally trying day as i found out specific exam results and wasnt particularly happy with some, basically had to physically refrain myself from killing my old modern studies teacher when i found out i dropped 23% from the mock exam. but otherwise i’m enjoying learning new things again, especially maths at the moment because i quite like trigonometry.

my tips for doing highers :)

(seeing as there are v few scottish studyblrs and highers are bloody difficult!)

(for non-scots, highers are exams we do in between gcse and a-level equivalents)

understand, don’t memorise. this applies to basically every class- if you understand why you do a certain method to solve a problem/ conjugate a verb/ analyse a poem then you can do it in every scenario

prepare to get stuff wrong. there is a significant difference between national 5s and highers, and most people i know took a confidence bump at the start of the year because of the sheer quantity of work. it’s okay!! it’s all learning and all learning is good

work with the right people. i sat with my friends in maths and desperately wish i hadn’t because i worked way better with people who actually challenged me to work hard! find people who are a similar level to you and work together

past papers. there are dozens of past papers online, far more than national 5s. watch out for content that isn’t in courses anymore! dunblane high school’s website has a great collection of past papers that i used loads

have time off. the workload in s5 is crazy so you need to balance your time. use any study periods to finish work and give yourself relax time in the evenings and at the weekends as much as you can

prelims are important but make sure you don’t burn out. as soon as you finish prelims you’ll likely start learning the next part of the course, and i know from experience that it is horrible to do when you’re completely exhausted after prelims. schedule days off into your prelim leave when you can!

i hope that helped somebody because s5 was a really difficult year for me and i wish i had known some of this at the start! if anybody happens to want tips on a particular subject, i got As in maths, physics, chem, french and english and would be more than happy to tell you what was helpful for me!! <3

21/07/20

summer studying challenge, 21st july: what is the best holiday you’ve been on?

definitely the first time i went on a holiday to a warm country, to menorca in 2017 with my family.

today was spent colouring in a gbbo colouring book, watching arrested development, and coding! i’m learning python2 using codecademy and i’m trying some of the python challenges. (i completed level 1 today and was SO excited by it.)

finally beginning to reach the end of term two- the easter break is next week and after that i’m back at school for two days and then off on exam leave for a month! and then because the school system is odd here we begin the next year of school at the start of june and break up for summer a month later, not long!!