midterms Options

[*chaneun*]

how do you people deal with the stress of midterms and what are your studying techniques?

[InvisiblePopcorn]

I'm not stressed out at all, because midterms are only 1/7th of my grade. I'm probably not even going to study too much. But If you're having problems, I'd say study the stuff you did more at the beginning of the year, because you dont really remember that as much as the stuff you just recently learned.

[Rachel]

well im definently not stressing AT all for midterms...which is kinda bad because this is my junior year. MOST IMPORTANT YEAR


but to deal with stress, i just breath and take a break. listen to some music and eat chocolate

[avalon*]

i don't stress even though they're about a quarter of my grade.
when i study, i lock myself in the guest room which has minimal distractions..all it basically has is a dresser and a bed..and i grab a chair so i won't lie on the bed and fall asleep. then i take my huge stack of notes/homework assignments/past tests/etc that i've saved [comes in handy =)] and i look through all of those, and do the problems over until i get them.

[xbr0kensmil3]

i didn't even know we had midterms until 2 days ago..i just gotta study more and stay after school..hopefully it'll help

[largosama]

I study the subjects you can memorize stuff for... and screw the subjects that you need to "practice" for i.e math

And you really can't "study" essay writing so I forget about that

AFter all the organization, there isn't much to study for except maybe your sciences and history classes... and maybe foreign language IF YOU care about it

[dWang]

i hate midterms..

[taiwanesegurl]

got them first week of feb.. yay!

not..

i hope i'm ready.. i gotta kick o chem and mol. cell bio's ass.. HARD..

[cocoalightning27]

Don't stress out...It makes everything worse...I usually don't even study but it doesn't matter because I am a genius.....hahahaNO

[*autumn.*]

set goals for yourself (i will finish studying ________ by 10 pm)
stay off of AIM
stay off of createblog!

[iheartsimba]

cram cram cram tv cram cram sleep =]

[Spud]

I don't really study. I just try and cram before the bell rings. And if I'm totally unprepared, I "help myself" sometimes. ;)

[silver-rain]

bleh- this week is finals week. well, tomorrow and wednesday is the english regents- and you can't really study for that. and, people say it's easy, so i'm not really worried about that. but physics i really need to study. and by study, i mean cram on the train on the way to school.

[JBoy990]

I'd just take my mind off of it until the day before or the hour before you take it and then take ur notes and stuff, and cram as much as you can into ur head. This comes from experience...well, this only goes for me because well...I have bad short term memory so studying doesn't do a damn thing for me.

[Spirited Away]

I always study at the last minute. Procrastination is my friend.

[runforfun529]

We just got our results back and I didn't study but I got all A's. I guess I'm blessed.

[lovescream]

I never had midterms yet so I wouldn't know.

My friend.. she does something that calms her down usually when she's angry or stresseed, not because of midterms.

[largosama]

I skipped a day today xD

[weirdness]

i dont have midterms. lolz

but when i study, i study like days before the test and i sleep early the day before the test, and i study with other people too

[*stephinika*]

woohoo for cramming! like what i'm supposed to be doing riiiight now...

[gigiopolis]

I only have 2 midterms coming up. They're really easy...because they're for regular Science and Math students but I take Honours for both of them. So it's a very basic review...

All I do for studying is take lots of notes. With my hands and paper, so it can get engraved in my brain more deeply. Typing doesn't get the same results. So...yeah.

[taiwanesegurl]

i find cleaning to help alleviate stress.. i have a midterm tomorrow in ls3, and i have absolutely no idea what's going on.. i know i have to memorize how all 20 amino acids look like.. and that's all i really remember...

but on the plus side.. my bathroom is EXTREMELY clean..

[*mona lisa*]

well, you should study the things that you don't know or remember first as opposed to the major topic breakdown for the test. i studied the topics that took up most of the weight on my final exam and couldn't remember all the stuff in the begining of the year and i was kicking myself when i got it back.

[mysticalazxn]

just basiclly dont study the day before midterm. don't cram it all at once. I try it once and cram it. And the minute i took the test i went blank!

[oo0mindi0oo]

Last year my school screwed up our midterm schedule so nearly the entire school pentitioned them. Apparently it worked because we don't have them this year :D
Unfortunatly some teachers are making finals mandatory because of that. (Normally if you have straight A's through the entire year you don't have to take finals - but some teachers are making us because we don't have midterms)