Should be studying for the uncoming test but....

Just think forward to the consequences of not passing or not doing well. A life without money, nice cellphones and women. For a little hardship now there is a reward waiting.
 
I will do every thing under the sun before I study, but once I start I get into it, then its easy.
It's just those first few pages, of you getting into the work, I find a study table helps. Does not have to be in depth, just like reading two chapters a day leading upto the test then day before I study the work, memorizing the 1,2,3 kinda answers before you know it you relaxing after the test :)
 
Want motivation?

Think about how much money is being spent?
Think about a week before exams or finals what you're going to feel like realising you haven't studied.
Think about failing - what will happen after!

The list goes on...

Just go and study man!
 
nakedpeanut said:
I will do every thing under the sun before I study, but once I start I get into it, then its easy.
It's just those first few pages, of you getting into the work, I find a study table helps. Does not have to be in depth, just like reading two chapters a day leading upto the test then day before I study the work, memorizing the 1,2,3 kinda answers before you know it you relaxing after the test :)
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+1,
It's just getting started, I just can't seem to get started.

Bleh, I guess I've basically got everything done... and my friends are going out now (main reason for making it difficult to start :p).

And wow, it's only Physics (1st year Engineering physics)... So I really doubt my life will come to a grinding halt in the event of me failing this test?
 
scotty777 said:
+1,
It's just getting started, I just can't seem to get started.

Bleh, I guess I've basically got everything done... and my friends are going out now (main reason for making it difficult to start :p).

And wow, it's only Physics (1st year Engineering physics)... So I really doubt my life will come to a grinding halt in the event of me failing this test?
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Feeling the pain scotty :( I sold my Joburg Day and Basement Jaxx tickets for today 'cause I knew I'd feel guilty the whole time being there. Wanna kick myself for not doing any work this past week.
 
Just_Ice said:
Exactly. Thats why I leave learning for the day before.
I work best under pressure...
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Im exactly the same, but unfortunatly this is not a good thing, because often the day before is not enough time(studying bcom accounting 2nd year :P)! I love working under pressure (I dont work if there isnt any)
 
Freaksta said:
Im exactly the same, but unfortunatly this is not a good thing, because often the day before is not enough time(studying bcom accounting 2nd year :P)! I love working under pressure (I dont work if there isnt any)
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Luckily Im still only 1st year, although also doing accounts.
I like the fact that I can do it, but it is risky. I discovered that with my comm law test the other day, I didnt realise how much work it was till I started. Luckily I was able to get hold of my friends notes, otherwise I would have been screwed!
 
Dovi said:
Feeling the pain scotty :( I sold my Joburg Day and Basement Jaxx tickets for today 'cause I knew I'd feel guilty the whole time being there. Wanna kick myself for not doing any work this past week.
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I honestly dont know how you guys feel guilty for not learning. I would have a stressed about it if the test was the next day, but never have I felt guilty even when other people are learning.
I wish I went to JHB day and Basement Jaxx though, all my friends are at JHB day and I am in Bloem... lovely...
 
Just_Ice said:
I honestly dont know how you guys feel guilty for not learning. I would have a stressed about it if the test was the next day, but never have I felt guilty even when other people are learning.
I wish I went to JHB day and Basement Jaxx though, all my friends are at JHB day and I am in Bloem... lovely...
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It's not so much the guilt of not learning at the time but at having skipped lectures and being inconsistent in keeping up with work in the previous weeks. And then comes the annoyance with having let yourself get into a situation which was totally avoidable in the first place.
 
Dovi said:
It's not so much the guilt of not learning at the time but at having skipped lectures and being inconsistent in keeping up with work in the previous weeks. And then comes the annoyance with having let yourself get into a situation which was totally avoidable in the first place.
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lol I so know that feeling :D it sux big time!

I find this always motivates me :) and gives a few laughs
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1350
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1354
 
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Hey I skip a fair number of lectures... and as far as I am concerned I would rather do that than sit around in some waste of time lectures (such as business management) which consists of nothing but the lecturer reading out the text book. I do sometimes regret not going to some other lectures, but I have definitely improved over the first semester.
 
Dovi said:
Feeling the pain scotty :( I sold my Joburg Day and Basement Jaxx tickets for today 'cause I knew I'd feel guilty the whole time being there. Wanna kick myself for not doing any work this past week.
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eish, Dovi, you and I are in exactly the same boat then ha ha ha. Well, i dunno, I really really haven't been working this semester :(.

I just don't understand what it is about being a student that makes things like this happen... Given that I might be the minority (Dovi and I both in fact). But I just get bloody lazy, find everything else to do, to a point where I have to create a thread here on mybb to express how bloody lazy I am :(.

It's not even like I don't enjoy the work, it's interesting, but yeah, I guess this makes life what it is :p. Ha ha, one of the biggest jokes thus far is when lecturers say we must stay ahead of the lecturers, but thus far I wait for the test to be a few days away, then crack open my text book and grind away :p
 
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I thought the same of first year university physics. I did so-so in my class tests and ended up bombing in the exam because:

1. I never really studied hard for the class tests during the year, so when finals came it was as if I was looking at the material for the first time.
2. My exam timetable was a bastard, and I was set to write my major a few days after physics, so guess which subject took preference.

So, in the end, I failed first year physics and had to repeat it in my second year. Had I studied harder for my class tests, I would have had in all likelihood a better year mark that could have saved me from the final. It's really not worth failing physics, especially when you end up having to repeat all your lab sessions.
 
hyperian said:
I thought the same of first year university physics. I did so-so in my class tests and ended up bombing in the exam because:

1. I never really studied hard for the class tests during the year, so when finals came it was as if I was looking at the material for the first time.
2. My exam timetable was a bastard, and I was set to write my major a few days after physics, so guess which subject took preference.

So, in the end, I failed first year physics and had to repeat it in my second year. Had I studied harder for my class tests, I would have had in all likelihood a better year mark that could have saved me from the final. It's really not worth failing physics, especially when you end up having to repeat all your lab sessions.
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Wits student? Well, I guess I better start working then :eek:
 
What is an uNcoming test???

:confused:

Just thought I'd ask if I'm reading correctly...
 
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