Yes, donkhead. If we all think properly. We're all professional students by secondary school. 6 years of Primary School and another 4 or 5 years of Secondary School. That makes at least 10 years in Studying.

Ask yourself, 10 years of studying, if you still can't find out the way of effective studying, you've effectively wasted your life as a studen away.

Ask around, who has been keeping the same job for more then 10 years. By the time you've been working in the same trade for 10 years, you're already experienced beyond experienced. Chances are you have many "battle stories" to tell. Some people might even call you "old bird".

As a student, you ought to know these tricks. I'm just sharing what I know and if people have feedbacks, go ahead, we're here to help.

 

As for Algebra,

I feel that it is actually quite easy. Practice is the key. Keep practicing, it's like cycling, first few times you find it hard to balance. After a few days or weeks, you'll also most probably be able to cycle without your hands or with your eyes closed. (I do not encourage dangerous cycling, it is just a metaphor, do not take this literally.)

 

So good luck to your algebra, practice, practice and more practice!

The Student’s Curse

After spending years confronting the peculiar peccadilloes of the student set, I’ve learned that one problem, in particular, looms above the rest. I’m talking, of course, about procrastination. For many students, it’s the personification of academic troubles: “if I could only stop procrastinating on my work, I would be doing fine.”

My experience has revealed that there are two types of procrastination. The first, which I’ll call light procrastination, is the standard resistance to shutting down e-mail or turning off the TV that we all feel.

The real monster, however, is what I call deep procrastination. This is a state, reached by an alarming number of students, in which the pressure of starting at the absolute last minute becomes necessary to motivate any work. Students who suffer from deep procrastination pull frequent all-nighters and are often found begging for extensions on assignments they couldn’t bring themselves to begin before the deadline. You can normally spot them in the JC or the higher end of the Secondary Schools e.g. Secondary 4 or 5.

This is a serious problem, and I want to offer an unconventional solution — born from experience — for eliminating its worse effects.

The Roots of Deep Procrastination

The most common reason given for procrastination: work sucks. You assume you delay because the chore itself is brutal. But is this true?

Think back to the last assignment that you put off until the minute. Now imagine during the upcoming fall semester you have no courses to take. Your teachers says he believes in your talent and that he wants you to complete this one assignment at your own pace.

For most students, the work would be rather enjoyable. Be it a research paper or a big chunk of reading or even the 'O' levels Art coursework, there is something very satisfying about mastering material over time. It makes you feel competent (one of our three basic psychological needs), and most people, when not under incredible pressure, actually enjoy learning new things.

The reason, then, that some students suffer from deep procrastination: their schedule as a whole is too demanding. Put simply, there is too much work and not enough time. Night after night they forced into a situation where they have to work, probably late, and this sucks. After a while a resentment grows toward their schoolwork — it is making their life miserable. And once they resent the work — and get none of the joys of competency and learning and mastery that classes could provide — their mind starts doing whatever it can to avoid getting started.

Curing Deep Procrastination

So what works? Stricter schedules and more intense productivity rules won’t cut it. The problem is not disorganization, it is, instead, a deep-seated antipathy to student work in general. If you want to cure deep procrastination you have to remove the source of resentment. And this means doing less; much less.

Student’s who shift to schedules with much more free time find themselves handling their workload without pain. Without the pain, they don’t grow to resent their schedules. And without the resentment, no deep procrastination will arise.

This is somewhat unexpected, as making your schedule lighter makes it easier to procrastinate in the sense that you can get away with more last minute heroics. However, for most students, the opposite occurs. The light schedule takes away their fatigue, and a true interest in their work blossoms again. Guess what? When you’re interested in your work, it’s not that hard to get started…sometimes even real early.

Are You a Deep Procrastinator?

If your procrastination has gotten to the point where your grades are starting to suffer, or you’re frequently working into the twilight hours to make deadlines at the last minute, seriously consider why this is happening, then ask yourself what you might gain by rebuilding a happy relationship with your schoolwork.

Got 5 points ar... 4 with header, the 5th point is the bold text in the middle hehe.

 

Sorry if it was unclear XD

 

@MrSean

In response to your question, although it is good to set priority for your studies, DO NOT jeopardize other things. E.g family gatherings, going out with friends. I'm not suggesting you to neglect your studies. But do not give social events a miss just to study.

In fact, as I'm studying for my Os this year. I'm still very relaxed compared to my other classmates. I'm doing better then majority of them in fact. It all boils down to Time Management and using the "GTD" system well.

As a doctor, he have no idea how much it cost.

 

What a doctor can quote you is the rough fee for surgery and his own consultation fee. Complications might vary and doses of medicines and other treatments might change in the course of the operation itself increasing the price of the surgery.

And also, there might be hospitalization fees as well as other misc. fees that is not under direct control of the doctor.

Originally posted by Fantagf:

TS, don't go polyclinic the next time.  Drs in the polyclinics really suck, most of the time they don't trust the patients.   I was refused MCs a few times though I needed rest to recuperate.   Most drs in polyclinic are strongheaded and not kind to patients.

Everytime I go, no problems leh. All the doctors I kena all very friendly, especially the females.

Only got 1 time want to keng MC, a male doctor, guai lan with me. Send me for blood test. I used to be very scared of needles, so I was like "Don't want la, don't need" then he was like smile smile "Aiyah, cannot la, you everytime fever like that, must la. Go, go for the blood test then come back"

Lan lan lor, lol. My face green when he say blood test sia. But now not scared needle liao la haha.

Originally posted by nehpyh:

Qns:

1. What apps did you turned on?

2. What apps are running in the background?

3. MBP is at least a duo-core and it needs more juice to do just even powering it up.

4. Your MBP battery is already 1.5 yr old. If you use it daily and heavily, it'll weaken like everything on earth.

5. You didn't say your MBP is a 15" or 17". The bigger the greater the power sapping.

6. Did you maintain your battery with complete drain and full charging?

 

As a consolation, my G4 Power Book is 7 year old and the sole original battery can still last 1hr.

Complete drain and full charging is a myth. It has even been proven by myth busters, full charging and complete drain only works in ni-mh cells. MBP uses a Li-ion cell so it is not affected.

 

Although you can try to follow the below instructions, it is no guarantees to work because this was the instruction to follow for first time usage of the macbooks.

 

You are recommended to fully charge the battery so that the battery is able to "reset" it's max capacity before draining it until the warning pops up, save everything and wait for it to go into sleep mode. Leave it for another 5 hours or so to completely drain the battery before connecting the magsafe adapter to fully charge it, you may use it while it's charging.

Relax, you're not going to die or go to hell if God is Imaginary. You are imagining too much.

These days I am kinda busy - you know, the 'O' levels are close. I think everybody felt at least once that there are too many things to do (especially true for Art and DnT students due to coursework) and the time just isn’t enough, so one post about time management and good practices when studying should be useful.

 

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control

~Pink Floyd - Another brick in the Wall~

 

Create a good environment!

If you can go to library and stay there it is very good - there you have the motivation and the atmosphere that helps you concentrate better. Of course, there are cases when you can’t use that space - for example if you have something to talk you can’t do it there.

Your room can be a good solution too, but here you have more temptations - the TV, the internet, the flowers you haven’t watered recently … If you can you can escape these temptations and you have all the materials you need you’ll gain some time by staying at home.

 

Take your own notes!

When you finish reading a paragraph try to sum it up in 2-3 phrases. That should help you to keep in mind what you have learned and it’s useful when you revise your notes. When you’re doing that you also verify if you really understood what you read or you only have the impression of understanding it. Of course you can return and make additional notes. That and the practical applications are the active part of studying.

It isn’t enough to recognize the truth, it’s necessary to practice it. This would work with my previous tip on re-writing notes to improve memory. So instead of just re-writing blindly, try to make the notes shorter everytime. This would help you to remember the facts yet only need a few lines of "anchor" sentences to bring back all your prior memory to the subject

 

Study groups are a very good idea!

3 or 4 people is ideal. This idea has pluses and minuses - you can ask other people to explain what you don’t understand and you can fix your knowledge by answering other’s questions, but there is a dark side too. When you’re working with somebody else you tend to talk about anything except subject at hand. Choose carefully your study mates and impose some rules - discuss only when you have too, give answers as short as possible and don’t take breaks until you finish the chapter. That should work - and if it doesn’t, it’s better to give up the study groups.

 

Combine theoretical knowledge with practice!

One of the biggest mistakes people make is that they forget to implement and apply their knowledge accordingly. Exercises are more important than theory so I suggest to spend at least 60% of your time doing exercises. Another thing very very important is the “doing” part. If you understand the method to solve a problem it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can actually solve the exercise. If you have more time try to find the solution yourself, then you can compare it with what you have.

 

Of course, there are situations when you don’t have too many exercises to do; geography doesn’t have as many practical applications as physics. You can still train yourself by thinking of questions and trying to answer. Creating questions that cover all the information you have to know is important too. Most new 'O' level guide books include a "recap" section at the back of the chapter. You can write it down in a small card and try to answer them. When you can give the correct answer easily you’re ready to pass the exam; you can concentrate on other subjects from now on.

 

Yup... Discipline is the key. But often there's always "Check mail" on my mind. Heard it was a psychological problem XD

 

Anyway... with applets like StumbleUpon and Digg, it's really hard to stop. I've tried stumbling for 1 whole day without stopping lmao.

lol, 1 Desktop (Hackintosh OSX Leopard), 1 Macbook Pro (OSX Leopard) and 2 Xserve (OSX Leopard Server)

Yes indeed. But not many people are able to do it. I myself is unable to really disconnect myself from the internet.

So normally I just close my macbook/power off my mac and just find a quiet place to sit and revise.

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Lol, is HWF helping him or harming him XD

Originally posted by SexyChin:

if i really do that, my relatives and friends would just pass the coins back to me. 

haha...

 

Well for me ... I'd definitely bank in the money. If rubbish happens, you can use the money.

The internet is truly a wonderland. Thousands of news stories, blogs, games, videos, social networking sites, all lie tantalizingly beneath your fingertips, just waiting to be explored. I know some of you can't live without SgForums or the Homework Forum but it has proven time and time again. I've experienced multiple productive surges when I take myself off the internet.

Don’t surf the internet on study time.

Some buildings in my school don’t have wireless. I remember being stuck inside my school once in a rainstorm after school. So I decided to hole up in an unused classroom with my laptop rather than brave the heavy rain. (I brought the laptop for presentation.)

At first, I didn’t have anything to do. My routine is to check my mail, then read some news, then check my mail again, then my RSS Reader, then more mail. After that, I do some work, and check mail again. (Does this sound familiar?)

With no internet, I couldn’t check my mail, and the whole process was stopped before it started. Then, a miracle happened. Wanting desperately to avoid boredom, I started working on the first thing I could find — and finished, rather quickly. Then I found something else, finished it, and moved onto a third task. By the time the rain subsided, I had finished three rather unpleasant tasks that I had been putting off for weeks.

Since that incident, I’ve taken myself off the internet on a number of occasions, and it has resulted in productivity gains every single time. One of the secrets to being productive is to schedule uninterruptible periods. Even if you are working diligently most of the time, the thirty second break to check email or facebook can set you back as many as five or six minutes when you consider the time spent getting re-focused.

“Very well,” you may be saying to yourself, “but what if I need the internet for my work? Is there any way I can have the best of both worlds?”

It turns out that there is. Invisibility Cloak is a Greasemonkey script written by Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani. It allows you to create a blacklist of sites and specify a time period during which they will be blocked. For instance, you can block *.facebook.com and youtube.com between 12:00 AM and 8:00 PM, which means that your browser will prevent you from accessing that page except for four hours at night.

 

You can configure the script in Firefox by going to Tools => Greasemonkey => Manage User Scripts, and selecting Invisibility Cloak from the menu on the left.In order to change the period, you will need to edit the Javascript file with an editor (Notepad works just fine). Just click the Edit button in the lower left hand corner on the pop-up window and it will open the associated Javascript file. Find the following four lines:

// EDIT THE NEXT LINE TO SET THE HOUR AFTER WHICH SITES SHOULD APPEAR
// HOURS IN MILITARY TIME, SO 15 = 3PM
var surf_time_after = 15;
// END EDIT

Edit the value of surf_time_after as per the instructions, save, and go back to Firefox. If you want, you can also change the message that appears when you try to access a blocked site. I changed it to something rather derogatory. Here’s the line you need to alter. Just change the text inside the parenthesis (keep the quotation marks).

alert(”You can surf after “+ readable_time + “; right now, get back to work!”);

Do give this script a spin - it works remarkably well, even though there is a very simple way to disable it (if enough people want to know how to do this, I will post an answer in the comments). Also, if you have anything to add on the subject of going offline to increase productivity, please feel free to comment for the benefit of other readers. I’m also an avid comment reader, so I look forward to it as well, although not often.

Since I do not frequent SgForums as much, I can be reached on both MSN and Email at the following address:

AlsonKaw [at] PixelRebels.uni.cc

My fav super hero is Solid Snake

 

wahahah MGS

uniquePSP got a themes section you should check it out.

 

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That's the built in spell check. Can't believe no one got that. You can disable it.

anything that rhymes with sunshine is a fraud.

If response is good, I'll start to write GTD-based articles again.

Originally posted by Ongsoosiang:

The new movie Wanted( starring Angelica Joline) promotes Luciferic Doctrine.Angelica said,''Kill one save one thousand'', that is the Luciferic Doctrine.Let us use our reasoning: Kill one save one thousand, kill one thousand save one million, kill one million save one billion, kill six billions save the planet earth.Evil,isn't it?

Wasn't it suppose to be Angelina Jolie?

Originally posted by Lorry`:

i wont go overseas because the flying time already take up hours lor.


Mornin - eat my fav prawn bee hoon soup (i got allergy) as breakfast. Also other food that i cant eat.

Dress up (1st outfit)

Afternoon - Drive around, KLKK with friends and honey. Some ahem ahem stuffs.

Evenin - A dinner with my family and my honey only.

After dinner to Midnight - Hire djs, dancers. Host outdoor dance party just outside my house. (maybe house + outside house)  I dont care if it's illegal or not.
Invite everyone i know to go. Dinner will be buffet. Everyone MUST dress up. The theme will be 'heaven'. Dress up (2nd and 3rd outfits) in between. The coffin can act as podium

Lol you would die by noon having a seizure as result of eating all the stuff you are allergic to.

 

 

For me, I'd print out a list of everything that's illegal to do in Singapore and make a checklist. My aim is to film myself doing all these illegal things in Singapore. Finish the list before midnight. LOL

 

I'll kill, plunder, hi-jack the shopping centre sound system and play white noise at super high pitch at max volume. Maybe toss someone into the MRT tracks and play hide and seek with the police. Punch a police officer maybe lol

I'd do everything a regular singaporean with years to live on wouldn't do.

Here are some from uniquePSP

 

 

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Haix... This is the result of the decaying of humans. I tell you ar. If one day, everything's gone. Human goes back to farming for food to feed ourselves. World would be much much better. It's because of greed and want to live in luxury that people end up like that.

Are you envious of Bill Gate's money? Or knowledge?

If you're after his money. Congrats, you've been poisoned.