Until this year, the net effort put in for me to get through each of my exams was either not studying at all (english) to one hour of practise (for math) to around 4-5 hours (for other subjects)..
All in all, I was able to do well enough to keep my parents in check and spend the bulk of my time in stuff like coding, IT and even in a wee bit of electronics.. Around 5th rank in a class of 55.. And 25-30th rank in a standard of around 450.. Crappy, yeah, but not outright pathetic..
But the latter half of 9th and the whole of 10th was a whole different ballgame..
The first change in the game were the competitors: there were the hardworkers and/or brains type, the I'm-happy-with-being-average type and the carefree type who almost didn't study at all.. But the new breed were the tuition-goers, some already hardworking, others turned hardworking and the rest who didn't study even if they were paid to..
The second change might be unique to me.. It is one of the evolution.. of my brain.. Earlier, I'd never felt the need to practise Math or Physics problems; but now I do.. not because the problems themselves are harder.. on the other hand, it's because I don't have time enough to think of a solution on-the-fly at the examination hall AND do manual calculations.. rather, I now at least need to know the type of problems I'd have to encounter at the exam.. And being innately careless/bad at doing calculations with large numbers especially when under a time constraint hasn't helped at all.. Also, earlier I used to be able to complete studying portions well within the time on the day before an exam.. But now, it seems almost impossible for me to complete all the required chapters in the 4-6 hours I have before an exam.. Throughout, my retentivity levels grew to accomodate for the additional input.. but they either seem to have reached an unbreakable threshold or I'm expecting too much from them since the amount to study 10th has certainly grown exponentially from last year..
Whatever said and done, it seems official that my brains can no longer support me in successfully studying 10th standard subject matter within a day before the exam and expect to get even somewhat 'respectable' marks..
With that said and considering that I don't have tuition teachers tugging at my rear making me solve a 100 problems/hour, I've prepared this rough schedule that I hope to force myself to follow in the weeks to come (click to enlarge):
All in all, I was able to do well enough to keep my parents in check and spend the bulk of my time in stuff like coding, IT and even in a wee bit of electronics.. Around 5th rank in a class of 55.. And 25-30th rank in a standard of around 450.. Crappy, yeah, but not outright pathetic..
But the latter half of 9th and the whole of 10th was a whole different ballgame..
The first change in the game were the competitors: there were the hardworkers and/or brains type, the I'm-happy-with-being-average type and the carefree type who almost didn't study at all.. But the new breed were the tuition-goers, some already hardworking, others turned hardworking and the rest who didn't study even if they were paid to..
The second change might be unique to me.. It is one of the evolution.. of my brain.. Earlier, I'd never felt the need to practise Math or Physics problems; but now I do.. not because the problems themselves are harder.. on the other hand, it's because I don't have time enough to think of a solution on-the-fly at the examination hall AND do manual calculations.. rather, I now at least need to know the type of problems I'd have to encounter at the exam.. And being innately careless/bad at doing calculations with large numbers especially when under a time constraint hasn't helped at all.. Also, earlier I used to be able to complete studying portions well within the time on the day before an exam.. But now, it seems almost impossible for me to complete all the required chapters in the 4-6 hours I have before an exam.. Throughout, my retentivity levels grew to accomodate for the additional input.. but they either seem to have reached an unbreakable threshold or I'm expecting too much from them since the amount to study 10th has certainly grown exponentially from last year..
Whatever said and done, it seems official that my brains can no longer support me in successfully studying 10th standard subject matter within a day before the exam and expect to get even somewhat 'respectable' marks..
With that said and considering that I don't have tuition teachers tugging at my rear making me solve a 100 problems/hour, I've prepared this rough schedule that I hope to force myself to follow in the weeks to come (click to enlarge):
And here is a more polished version (click to enlarge):
2 comments:
hey kid i guess you could stop writing from your tablet coz ur handwriting is too small for my old eyes to percieve
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