Definitely, secret. - very different.
Eldest is a DS and he tended to put it off and put it off and then work really late into the evening and didn't have an exam timetable and thought there was more time than there really was! He did well though and by the time he was in his final year at uni he really knew how to structure his time and work to a timetable. He became a man with a life in lists - sequential activities to be done to achieve the end result. A boy after my own heart, I can tell you!
Second was DD now in her final year at uni and such a hard and consistent worker. Always with her Filofax open and with individual pieces of work listed and sub divided for action! But only likes working in the lounge with the family around her whilst watching TV. And the most artistic revision timetables you can imagine , starting at three months out. No last minute rushes for her - if it's on the timetable for Sunday morning, she got up and did it.........
And last is another DD who likewise loves nothing more than a coloured timetable with section by section entries for each subject. Then she ignores it ( the earlier up thread biology comments refer!). But needs her own space to work in - likes to be at her desk behind a closed door!but with ear phones in and Facebook open on screen. But will also work til the small hours if she hasn't done what she wants to do on any particular day.
What amazes me about them all is the need, not just ability, but the need to work with other activities going on - the Facebook, the iPod, the TV. I just can't do that and I suspect it's a generational thing.
But for them, it all seems to work so far! Keeping everything crossed whilst I'm saying that, just in case I'm tempting the exam gods......,