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The Senior Year | The Survival Guide : Organisation and Study Tips

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Hey and welcome back to my blog! In today's post I will be talking about how to get organised and motivated to start efficient and effective study (I know it's hard). I hope some of these tips I will share with you in this post will be of some help and don't worry all of us have procrastinated when it comes to study. (Don't feel guilty if sometimes you find it hard to get motivated, we all have them off-days!) 1. Refill, Refill, Refill For me the best way of studying was writing my study notes into a refill pad and learning it from sheets rather than hardbacks, I know it sounds so weird but notes in hardback books scared me because they were so big and bulky and quite overwhelming when it came to actually sitting down to study my notes. I would recommend buying plenty of refill pads and writing your own study notes because it can suit your learning style and you can lay them out in a way that suits you and your study techniques. 2. Get a folder for each subject Th...

The Senior Year | Survival Guide: Tips to deal with stress :)

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Hey and welcome back to my blog, this the first edition of My Senior Year survival guide and I hope you enjoy this blogpost. The aim of this series is to help any students that feel stressed and alone in this very stressful and unbelievably scary time we call '6th year' in Ireland. I want people to feel they can relate and find guidance through reading this series as I would of loved to have something like this to help me through my Leaving Cert year. Teachers on your case, finding it hard to cope with deadlines, work load and thoughts about future plans? Don’t stress I am here to help with tips and advice that have been tried and tested by me, '6th year' is challenging but thankfully I survived and don't worry by staying calm and in control you will too, even though at the minute you feel it will never end. Right sorry for the rambles, Let's get started! Tea : In my opinion, Tea was the biggest thing that got me through everyday of my the Leaving Ce...