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Hello! :) Fei Ding from 17sh11 here!

I think the rest made quite a lot of good comments already so just gonna briefly add on abit! SH life, especially sh2, is basically filled with exams where there is nearly one exam every 2 months or so, so I would say one of the best ways to manage both your time and stress is to just download a calendar off Google and fill in what ur gonna study each day for the entire month before each major exam. Yes subjects like math takes up alot of time, which is why its always good if you can look from a birds eye view of your time and find the 5-6 hours to allocate to it :). What I recommend is to just find a day to sit down and plan thoroughly for 3-4 hours about your taskings for each day. After that you wont ever have to worry about your study plan again and this helps to solve 3 major problems:

1) you can look at your ENTIRE schedule at the glance so that you know for a fact that you haven't missed out revision for any topic. At the same time you can allocate more time to your weaker topics and less to your stronger ones.

2) you won't be as stressed in general because as long as you keep track to the schedule, you can have faith that by the time exams come you will have revised everything. On a day to day basis you won't have to spend so much brainpower about thinking of what to mug for as well.

3) especially during As when all the subjects are packed extremely close together, this helps to ensure that you don't end up overmugging one subject and neglect the others

Just a few tips for planning your schedule:

-ALWAYS have a few days of buffer spread across your calendar to help you catch up or deal with unexpected new workloads

-Don't plan on doing a diff subject the day before each exam. You can't focus anyway lol.

-Would be good to include a "must finish" section and "good to do" section for each day; for me must finish would usually include tutorials or past year papers, good to do often includes sourcing for gp examples or collating notes.

I truly cannot stress how important it is to have a schedule!! it really goes a long way and you will really feel less stressed when you know you have your revisions sorted out when everyone is stressing out about what to revise next XD.

For Math in particular, it is a really good idea to buy a math journal to record down every single one of your mistakes. You will be surprised at how many recurring answers you find yourself making once you start writing down the same mistakes over and over. My math was my weakest subject but 2 months before As I started a math journal and I could actually see myself improve rapidly with each additional paper I do.

Also, some might disagree with me but I think it is a good idea to invest in all the summary books sold in the bookstore. I bought for bio, chem and econs and it saved me alot of time making my own notes as i just added my own notes in the form of annotations to the already very well summarized notes. Before exams, you will be grateful to the content page that points you to whatever information you are looking for at the last minute, rather than flipping through your own notes (it may be designed well and pretty, but with 2 minutes to the exam do you really want to be flipping through your entire notes looking for just a particular word/phrase?)

All the best! :)

Hey! I’m Tiffany Yong from the class of 2019 - my subject combination was the classic PCME/GP.

From the context of which you gave the question - 2 hours for 5 math questions - I can see that you’re probably not very familiar with that topic yet. If you are JC1, that’s perfectly fine. Doing mathematics requires you to build up a sort of “mathematical intuition” where you can understand and know how to manipulate all the formulae to solve the question. This intuition can be built by you doing your tutorial questions consistently, and going through every single question that you missed. If you are in JC2, if you take too long to do a question, that means that you have identified your weak topic/area. Your aim is to study smart. Instead of spending your time answering questions you already know, and making yourself feel artificially confident, your goal as a JC2 is to find ALL your weak spots and slowly hammer them out one by one.

In order to do that, what you can do is to try practice papers for each of the topics, and mark every single question. Take careful note of what questions you get wrong, and more importantly, WHY you get them wrong. I would advise that you write all this down in a “logbook” of sorts, and reflect on it every week. If you see that all your marks are lost in integration, then you have found your weak point, and you know what to drill on with revision packages/consult your teacher for.

This is applicable for every subject. If you have been doing consistent work with tutorials and listening in class, all you need to do is heal information gaps by either making comprehensive summary notes or practicing questions and taking note of your mistakes. If your forte is doing demand and supply econs essays, beyond the occasional refresher, you really don’t need to practice those questions again and again.

Of course, if you are JC2 and you haven’t been doing your tutorials or listening in class, then that means that you have to put in an extraordinary amount of effort now to score well. There is no way around it. The same principles apply of finding your mistakes and correcting them, but also, you will definitely have to prioritise. Some questions are more likely to appear than others, and some questions are easier than others. You just need a 70% for an A, so drill all the areas that you know you can get, and forget about the higher order questions. For chemistry, the “suggest” questions are usually killer because they require you to go beyond what you have learnt and make a reasonable deduction. However, you can just as easily skip these scattered 1 mark questions and just drill your energy cycle diagrams and organic chemistry deductions, which will net you 5 marks at a time.

In general, your main aim is to study smart, not just hard. Hard work is unavoidable, but with a few good tactics like spaced repetition, the pomodoro technique, and keeping a careful log of what you do, you can maximise the effectiveness of your studying time, leaving you more time to also just relax.

Finally, some days are just not good days. If you find yourself burnt out on that day, don’t beat yourself up about it. Go do something you enjoy or take a well-deserved break. You can come back to your work tomorrow - well rested, and more productive than before. All the best for your exams! If you have any other questions or you want me to clarify on anything, you can contact me @tiffany.ytq on instagram, or just submit another forum question!

Hey there! Yee Lin here from the Class of 2019.

I would say that my tips would be to:

1) Space out your revision. Doing a little every day is so much easier than trying to cram everything at once a few days before the exam. (Believe me, I used to cram a few days, or even the night before exams in JH and it was torturous and highly inefficient) Try to be consistent when you are revising. For instance, make it a habit to revise for a subject and complete your notes for it right after your teacher is done going through it in class. It's easy to think that you can cut yourself some slack for a bit and catch up later with work (ie not do your assignments), but in SH the workload will just snowball over time and it'll seem impossible to go back and catch up later on. Being disciplined and consistent is the way to go.

2) Never sleep during lectures. I know...lectures can get a bit...dry sometimes. The air-conditioning, comfy chairs, and lecturer's soothing voice form the perfect environment for a few minutes of snooze time. But by sleeping during lectures you miss out on the content that was gone through and you'll have to spend extra time after lessons to catch up instead (which is probably going to take more time than the actual duration of the lecture). If you feel bored or sleepy, try drinking some water and using the time to either read ahead on your own or do your tutorial questions! The same applies for when you feel your eyelids shutting during lessons. Saves you a whole lot of time down the road and you'll have more time to rest when you get home too.

3) Make full use of your free time during the day. I'm talking about the time you spend traveling to and fro school, waiting for assembly to start and during breaks. Instead of scrolling through Instagram and listening to music, why not consider swapping out some time to catch up on the news, watch documentaries and listen to podcasts (i would recommend those by CNA) to build up your content for GP? Little actions like this make a lot of difference down the road, especially for subjects like GP that you can't study overnight for. By doing this, I managed to improve my GP grades without really spending too much time reading up after school hours.

I totally agree that doing certain subjects like math take a whole lot of time and can be extremely draining. I would suggest switching to another subject after doing a few math questions so you don't feel so dreary when studying. There's no shortcut around it, but by using your time efficiently you can make your learning a lot easier and hopefully even get a lot more hours of sleep!

Personally, I need a lot of sleep to function every day, so I slept at around 10-11pm daily in SH. Previously, I tried staying up late in JH to study (until about 1-3am every day), but I just got really tired all day and I couldn't concentrate well during lessons or at home so I realized that it was counterproductive for me. That was why I was so determined in SH to finish the bulk of my work in school so that I could get proper rest when I got home.

Hope that this helps! I know JC life can be really tough but hang in there! All the best! 😁