Tips on Coping With School

Hi again, 

At this time of year, the pressure is on. School becomes harder to cope with because it's the last leg until finishing.  Today, I'm going to be sharing some tips to make it easier to wind down after a long day at school.

TREAT YOURSELF

I don't suggest you eat a big bag of Haribo's every time you come home from  school but you could set a treat for the end of the week or end of the day if you need more motivation. What I like to do is have a relaxing bath on a Friday (I have showers through the week and relax in the bath on Fridays). I like to use a Lush bath bomb and put on a face mask and really wind down. Looking forward to this time really helps me get through some of the most stressful days at schoo, because I know it helps me relax and become calm. If you're not a fan of baths, you could treat yourself to going out for a meal or just buying some junk food for the weekend. The treat is your choice and whatever you fancy at that time.

READ A BOOK

Now this may just remind you of school but I find reading a book (of your choice and not a Shakespeare play) so calming. Reading before bed does give you a better nights sleep, instead of scrolling through Instagram or watching a YouTube video. It's also a way to subliminally revise or just extend your knowledge. I like reading reviews on stories and then buying the book - I never buy books which aren't the right genre for me or I won't be interested in. 

WATCH A MOVIE

I love watching films and my old favourites are the ones I always go back to when I feel stressed. It's always good discovering a new movie but at the end of the day, I'm always going to back to High School Musical and Wild Child when I feel down but obviously movies are such a personal choice so choose the ones you know and love.

BAKE 

As you know if you've read my blog befor I love baking. Whenever I feel down or need a pick me up, I look in the cupboards and find some ingredients to bake a cake or some cookies. I find it therapeutic to bake and the bonus is obviously eating the product at the end!

PLAN DAYS OUT

These days could be with family or friends but setting aside a day or evening to go out and have fun with friends, gives you something to look forward to. Having a plan of something fun to do, will make the week better because, you'll be excited to go before and happy that you went afterwards (does that even make sense?)

Obviosuly, you still need to work with a revision time table and, again, that is very personal with times and days which you will revising. If you want a post on how to create one, let me know as I know it can be quite overwhelming!

Love, 

xmollymaex 

Revision Tips & Tricks To Help You Through Exams

Hi everyone, 

Today I thought I would share some revision tips to help you through the exam period! I have been revising for a few exams which are coming up very shortly so I thought I would share some of the most helpful things I've done.

STAY HYDRATED

This may be one of the most patronising things someone could ever tell you and the most annoying thing is that it actually works. By staying hydrated, your body can retain so much more information so set yourself a limit of how much water you should drink in the period of time you are revising . The ideal amount of water  is 2 litres a day so try drink a pint of water (568ml).

FLASH CARDS

Make yourself flash cards with key topics (such as a case study) and learn it. You don't need to write paragraphs but if you write the most useful information, it'll be easier to remember and maybe even more fun?! Okay, maybe not more fun but you've got pretend you're enjoying it. Fake it 'til you make it.

EAT SWEETS

Specific foods can bring back memories so if you eat, for example, a rhubarb & custard sweet whilst revising longshore drift for Geography and then you eat the same sweet in the exam, you could possibly remember more information from your revision session. This is basically giving you an excuse to eat sweets whilst revising and doing your exams. its marvellous, if I say so myself. But before you go raiding the overpriced  pic n' mix shelf, ask you're school if you're allowed to eat hard boiled sweets whilst in the exam hall because if you're not it would be a waste of time and money. But if you are, go wild!

LIMIT YOURSELF

Staring at a page all about Trigonometry for 3 hours straight doesn't mean you're going to get full marks on the question in the exam. There might not even be a Trig question in the exam. That's if you're lucky because exam boards hate everyone and love torturing us with irrelevant problems which we'll never have to solve irl. But that's besides the point. If you limit yourself to 20 minutes of solid revision and then a 10 minute break, your brain will retain the information and you get to watch a YouTube video in between revising - what's not to love?

BUY A WHITEBOARD

I revise by writing things out over and over until I can recite them in my sleep. If you do the same, invest in a small, hand - held whiteboard. You can write until your heart is content and not waste paper which saves money and trees. If you know anything about science, you'll know all about how trees produce oxygen helping us breathe and stay calm during this time of despair.

REDECORATE YOUR HOUSE

My house is currently covered in posters with Ecosystems and micellaneous German words on. I've stuck them on cupboard doors  and every wall imaginable. Your parents will hate you now but love you when you get your grades in August. Unless you ignore the posters like me, that's a different story...

DO PRACTICE PAPERS

Practice makes perfect. But practice papers are the worst things ever. But you've got to remember that you'll be sitting exams which will have these style questions so practicing them will only make you be perfect and everyone wants to be perfect to prove Hannah Montana wrong, don't they?

REVISION TIMETABLE

If you want to make the most out your time, create a timetable. Schedule your days to focus on a new topic every hour. Learn about The Digestive System at 11am and Shakespeare at 12pm. The perfect timetable... (if you do get bored of re-reading Romeo and Juliet, just watch the film and stare at Leonardo Di Caprio's face).

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I hope these tips will help you revise and help you succeed in your exams. Don't worry, it will all be over soon.

xmollymaex