How much Hard-core Revision you doing?

sali_mali

Crazy_guy you're scaring me! I'm still in the process of writing up my notes before getting them memorised but I'm still having lectures too (we don't get any revision time off, how cruel is that?!) I generally start at around noon after lectures and work through till I can't anymore! Generally around 10pm. Can't wait til they're over!

studentphil

I do about 2 hours a day. Really doing 8 hours is just not productive as you will not remember very much from working for that length of time. It is far better to do shorter times and often if you want to remember it.

melancholly

studentphil wrote: »

I do about 2 hours a day. Really doing 8 hours is just not productive as you will not remember very much from working for that length of time. It is far better to do shorter times and often if you want to remember it.

8 hours split up across the day would really benefit you phil - do the work and try it, rather than trying to justify why you shouldn't!

sali_mali

If I did 2 hours a day I would've had to start last year!

somethingaboutshopping

studentphil wrote: »

I do about 2 hours a day. Really doing 8 hours is just not productive as you will not remember very much from working for that length of time. It is far better to do shorter times and often if you want to remember it.

Wondered when you'd be on here setting us all straight!

2 hours a day when there are 12 times that in the day is fine, if thats what you do go for it. Similarly other folk here do what works for them... on the most part people don't stick at a course they hate like you have done so they can bear more than 2 hours working on it at a time.

Hope everyone is having a good day, I'm just having a quick peppermint tea break!

xx

studentphil

melancholly wrote: »

8 hours split up across the day would really benefit you phil - do the work and try it, rather than trying to justify why you shouldn't!

8 hours split up is not what the OP does, he said 9-5 in the library. Now I just can not see that you can stay on task eight hours let alone remember much.

cupid_s

I'd stay on task for at least 14 hours every day. I'd revise with my husband (then fiance) and at the end of the day he would would test me and I knew more or less everything, as did he when I test him. And I still did when I sat the exam up to 3 weeks later. So some people can remember more than 2 hours of stuff in a go.

But then to me it wasn't even like work because the topics were so enjoyable. So I'd muddle the few rubbish ones in with the interesting stuff so I didn't have too much boring stuff in one go.

I don't know anyone who did only 2 hours a day revision. Mainly because they wouldn't even have made it into the final year if that was all they had done. If I had done only two hours I would have had chance to learn only a maximum of one tenth what we should have known and I'd have struggled to get a third.

I suppose that some degrees just demand more work in order for you to get a certain grade.

Crazy_guy, if you think you're learning productively doing this amount then keep it up. It's not for long and I'm sure you'll do amazingly well in your exams with all the preparation you're doing.

studentphil

Maybe it is true that academics are super human, but I just do not see how you can work on the same task for 8 or 14 hours without a change of scene or a change of task. I always thought that after about 20-30 mins that peoples' mind start to wonder off and you remembering rate is vastly reduced.

sali_mali

Phil, the trick is to give yourself a 15 minute break after each two hours, then you can go back to it. I'm doing a science degree so I know a different approach is probably needed for arts degrees, but the time required is probably the same.

Out of interest, what degree is everyone who's posted doing?

sali_mali

Haha I just noticed I must be doing three hour blocks because I keep coming back to post on my breaks and it's almost to the minute!

Just to add Phil, the brain needs training in the same way muscles do. You should increase your revision time each day and you'll find you can concentate for longer and longer without needing a break