So Todays blogpost is going to be my personal tips for studying and keeping up and being organised with homework. I've just decided to also talk about shit like deciding if you are going to do VCE or VCAL and going to Uni because it's all so stressful and there is such a big pressure from school about that stuff but I'll explain it all later. I do just want to say that I'm not a person who invests my whole entire life into school and what I mean by that is I don't get home and start homework right away then don't finish until 10 pm or I won't request extra work. I do put lots of effort into assessment tasks (some more than others) and I do all the work and all my homework but I like to have a break. When I get home, I'm home. I don't start homework right away, unless I have heaps of it but even then I like to have some me time. But anyway, lets get started.
Now, I am in Year 9 so I don't really need to study for things as much. Like I don't have final year exams that you have to write down every element on the periodic table in 10 minutes (I do not think that is even a thing but anyway) but I do have tests that I need to read over everything etc. What I really like to do is use colour in my notebooks at school. So when I'm at school and the teacher goes write these notes down, I'll use my blue pen to write main things then I'll use coloured pens or coloured fine liner pens for headings, sub-headings, important things to remember. For me, that just turns my brain on more and if I'm looking back over it I can remember it more. This is more of an obvious one but if you keep your notebooks clean, tidy, and organised so if your looking back over it then you understand everything. I know this can be hard because I am actually a person who does get a bit bored and find myself scribbling all over the page and then I think why did I do that.
I don't know how true this is but I read somewhere once that writing in blue pen makes you remeber things more compared to black pen but I don't know how true that is.
For keeping up with your homework this all mostly comes down to if you want to do it but here is what I do anyway. I'll list down all the homework that I have and I write down everything that I have to do that night. For example, if I got a piece of homework that is due the next time I have that subject and I don't have that subject again until next week, I'll wait to do it. This just helps you even out your homework so you don't feel like you have to do it all at once. Another thing that I like to do with projects more so is if you have part A, B, C and D. I'll start with Part A, get some paper and
I'll write down in steps what I need to do. Then I do that with all the parts and I find it easier to control because I know what exactly I have to do and I can remember what I've done and what I need to do. If you are a person that gets very easily distracted, like me, then this part is definitely for you. One of my biggest problems when I sit down of a night to do my homework is my phone. What I like to do is turn it off completely or if I need to use the calculator for example I'll turn it on airplane mode, so both way I'm not getting notifications. then (if I don't need my phone) I'll put it out of my sight like underneath my pillow or in a box. I like to listen to music to keep me on track (which sometimes I need my phone for if I'm not using my laptop but airplane mode) but if I was to listen to Australia's top 50 on Spotify, I wouldn't get getting anywhere. What I like to do is listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers (One of my favourite bands) or if you have Spotify they have a whole little section called 'Focus' and I'll just chuck on one of those playlists and I am focused.
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I do just want to say before I start this section of this post that I understand some people want to go to University and be there for 10 years and get the highest point of education. I also understand that some people want to be tradies and get apprenticeships. This going to be for the people that don't want to do anything like them and just want to have a retail job or working in the bank, just something of that type.
In my high school (I don't know about other schools) but it is very pushed to go to Uni and have a career. Also by the way if you don't know, VCE is what you do if you want to go to University and VCAL is for people that want to get into jobs that tradies do or hairdressing or childcare. I go to a public school and last year when I was in Year 8 we were talked to about all of this stuff and honestly it was kinda boring and I didn't listen to all of it but I started getting me thinking about what I want to do. Before that I wanted to become and Lawyer then I kinda realised that I literally cannot achieve the marks that you need to become to be a Lawyer. Then I was interested in Accounting then that faded off (I'm really bad at maths so I don't really know how I was going to do that but anyway) and I didn't really know what I wanted to do because I felt like I needed to do VCE and go to Uni and get a good paying job and I felt that even more so because all my friends had (and they still do) their lifes figured out. Earlier this month I was talking to my Mum and I was saying that I just kinda want to have a 'normal' job like working in a retail shop for example. I don't want my whole entire life to be about work and careers are basically just having your whole life revolve around work and I'm not interested in doing things that you would do from VCAL. In schools there is no option for people that want to do what I want to do and that is kinda shit. Basically, these days if you dropout of school, you can barely get a job and it's really hard to get a job. So for any of you that are in my position, just remember to do what you want to do because honestly there is no point in doing something that you do not want to do.
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This blogpost has turned out to be pretty long, again. Honestly, I reckon this blogpost could have been way longer in the second part but if I was running the Education Department in Victoria, I would make a third option for Year 11 and 12 students for people like me who want just a chilled job. I was thinking about making a blogpost about how wrong the whole education system is but I'll see about that because when I get started on the education system it really does annoy me.
Walker Stalker Update-
This time in two weeks I will be at Walker Stalker in Melbourne. Honestly, I'm so excited to go and it is a nice thing to look forward to from the start of school (I start on Wednesday next week). I know that some people aren't going anymore and honestly that doesn't take away from my day at all. It would have been nice to see them at a panel or something but it is still going to be an amazing day. One of the actors that isn't going is Norman Reedus who plays Darrel and I'm just very glad that I didn't pay $148 dollars for a photo because I was going to and I think that you don't get your money back but I'm not sure about that. I honestly am actually loving the line-up for Melbourne Walker Stalker but I would quite like to have seen Jeffery Dean Morgan but I'm so grateful and lucky that I am even going.
Thank-you all so much for reading this blogpost, hopefully you enjoyed it. I hope that this blogpost has helped you for school this year with my little studying and homework tips and maybe the second part of this blogpost helped you with something. I do just want to quickly say, I lied in my last blogpost on Monday. I said in my outro that I was going Shopping and seeing the third Maze Runner but that didn't happen. Basically, something happened so I couldn't go. On Thursday I went shopping and I did a mini haul on my Insta story and I'm going to see the Maze Runner on Tuesday. I love you all to Jupiter and back but until next time, bye.
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