Another day, another day without a dollar. I had an interview for a job as a Post-16 Tutor at Gosforth High School. I say "interview", there was a challenging ‘carousel’ of activities. Amongst those activities was to present a twenty minute tutorial on revision techniques, have an interview in front of existing post-16 tutors, answer [...]
Tag Archives: revision
Sitting At The Back
One could be forgiven for being nervous before an exam: going through everything in your mind ensuring you haven’t forgotten anything you need. However, when you walk into the exam room and sit down ready to start your exam, you should be given an automatic fail if you fail to notice that you are sitting [...]
Revisited
Why oh why oh why? I am terrible when it comes to revision: I always have been. Other people draw up revision timetables; they hide distracting items; they download and print off past papers… But I can’t do any of that. And that has always been the case. I guess it’s testament of the strength [...]
Never Learn
Or do I?
Today I did an exam - a two-and-a-quarter hour exam in Number Theory and Cryptography. I did not prepare in the best way. However, if I had prepared earlier, I could have done much better.
The problem is, I never seem to grasp that the best way for me to revise is to practice [...]
Decadent Scenes
Well yesterday was an interesting day. Had my first revision lectures. I don’t care what other people say, they are worth it. Even material that I have covered in my revision so far would not have helped me - past papers are much better to revise from.
I had a bit of an unsettling experience between [...]
Wasted
What a waste of a holiday. I planned to write up my lecture notes in order to cover everything I had taken down in the term. Needless to say I failed hopelessly.
I just couldn’t settle down to work, and when I did, it was often interrupted. This week we have some revision lectures, which will [...]
Oh Life
What a strange day. I went in this morning to Uni to do some revision sessions. Everything seemed to be fine. After the final revision session, as we were leaving, news filtered through that a student on our course, Andy, had died yesterday of an acute asthma attack. It knocked me sideways a bit, because [...]
Hard As Nails, Screwed As Screws
I have an exam tomorrow morning. I hardly revised at all for it, so it’s going to be a short night sleep then think about how I’m going to survive in the morning. Oh why oh why did I let myself get into this mess?!
Perhaps this will serve me right. I haven’t found an adequate [...]
Pain Is Close To Pleasure
My wrist bloody hurts. I probably have repetitive strain injury (RSI) from continued writing, typing and… playing my guitar. I have an exam tomorrow afternoon (oh yes, an afternoon exam!) so I have stopped revising for the night. I am finding it difficult to revise effectively at the moment. I can’t quite put my finger [...]
The Mighty Jungle
Aye, it’s Bank Holiday Monday - fantastic time to do some revision. However, I was taking a tea and mini muffins break and Carry On Up The Jungle was on the TV. I wonder who wrote the scripts… but the fantasy of it all is incredible - and of course it sparked a few fantasies [...]