Exam panic

[beansmum]

I am always surprised by exams, they seem to sneak up on me, I'm NEVER ready. This time, however, I really am completely unprepared. We had snow this week, ds was off school, which means I got nothing done for a few days. I have an exam on tuesday (and more the week after that, but I'm ignoring them for now) and I've worked out that I have about 40 hours left to study in. If ds entertains himself for the weekend.

The exam will be 3 essay questions. We've been given 10 possible questions and 4 will be on the paper. At the moment I'm just panicking and not actually getting anything useful done.

Any brilliant suggestions on how to divide up my time? Other than going back and not taking last weekend off.

I think I would make sure I had a rough plan/mind map for each essay and concentrate my revision that way.

Someone from our course recommended this a few months ago.

revision in a day

I've no idea if it works, but it seems like sense. I have an exam on Monday, and plan to do this today, tomorrow and Sunday, if DH will amuse the DCs.

Snow!?

I had this sort of situation last year as my son was off school a lot over the royal wedding but it did not get in my way of revision.

I managed to get friends and family to occupy him for an hour or so. If this isn't possible it is best to do revision of a night.

The other thing is to ignore housework! I know it may seem strange to some but as long as you have enough clean clothes and know where your revision notes are a messy house is tolerable so long as you get the grades that you have been working towards which in the end will count towards better qualifications which should mean a higher paid job and eventually means providing for your family.

hope this helps :)

Thanks - very rough plan for each essay done. Now I'm going to divide up my day as the revision in a day thing suggests, 1 topic at a time with a short break between each one. Should be done in time...

I've got 5 hrs today (I'm in NZ, it's monday morning here), maybe 4 hrs tonight, then 5 hrs tomorrow. It's totally do-able, isn't it!?

I really think parents should get an automatic extra 10% credit for every paper.

Good luck beansmum hope it goes well!

Done - it was ok/pretty good. I'm sure I passed anyway. Now I have a week before the next one. I'm going to be prepared for it. I'm off to write an awesome colour coded study plan. Then I'm going to sick to it!