Free Periods (1 Viewer)

[Soulful]

What do you really do in your frees? (Or study periods)

Currently, I'm so excited about the prospects of having free periods that I'm completely lost as to what I'll actually do during them.

Should I spend them doing work, revising and studying? Or should I use it as an opportunity to relax and calm down from the stresses of school?

Thanks

 

[Zeref]

Ideally you would want to be doing work but with friends in your free periods, you won't be doing anything

 

[timeflies]

"They're not free periods, they're study periods". But yea nobody does a thing unless they have a test next period

 

[shortnsweet]

Well yeah you should be doing studying in those free periods - I used to go straight home after, take a short rest, then study. However the bus always came like 1 minute after I got out of class so I would sometimes miss the bus. Now they changed the time table so I have to wait half an hour lol now I just decide to study at the school library which I don't like because then that means I don't get to eat lol (no way am I gonna eat by myself) all my friends go home though and don't study.

EDIT: I should probably mention since this doesn't seem to be the case for most of you, all seniors get a free period on the same day on which we go home (lunch and last period) to study. and then also the people who don't have 12 units also get free periods but they stay at school at those times.

 

[strawberrye]

Please don't use your study periods as an opportunity to relax and calm down from the stresses of school-you can assign one day per week-i.e. Friday night to achieve the same purpose or use extra-curricular commitments to relieve you from school stress. Use these study periods with great care-plan them-

Remember time is the most precious commodity that money cannot buy-use it or lose it.

Everyone will have the same amount of time, but everyone gets different marks, Why? because some plan their time wisely while others spend time procrastinating, hypothesising and worrying about the future instead of doing actual studying. Don't resist the temptation to gossip with your friends during your free periods-make sure you are completing work during these periods-which are really independent self-studying periods rather than 'free' periods.

 

[such_such]

Usually I eat because our periods were too long (80mins at my school) and when I study in class I get really hungry really easily. Other than that, studying/catching up on homework is great and a little socialising from time to time doesn't hurt either

 

[Spiritual Bean]

I had probably 8 free periods in total every fortnight.

The first term of year 12, they were productive and I used to get a lot of homework finished, leaving time for assignments and so forth when I got home. After the first term, however, I did jack all. I just chatted with friends but to be fair, it was school related, just nothing productive was going on.

 

[rumbleroar]

Attempt to study but end up gossiping and eating with my mates lol
Occasionally work gets done (esp. If due the next day)

 

[study1234]

Ideally, you should be trying to use these free periods wisely for study, but as many people pointed out, it usually becomes a time for socializing. Honestly, I reckon you should take some time out from your rigorous study timetable to chill and relax, especially when you have 5 more hours of school. Maybe dedicate half your study periods to relaxing/socializing, and the other half to doing some productive study.

 

[enoilgam]

Free periods usually end up being wasted or taken as an opportunity to bludge around. As Strawberrye mentioned, you can bludge at home - a home bludge session is likely to be more enjoyable anyway. At the end of the day, you are stuck in a classroom during frees, so you might as well do something as opposed to just sitting there. If you bludge at home, there is so much more you can do with yourself. That was my way of looking at it anyway.

 

[Examine]

I went to the gym or went to get food. If I didn't have anybody to go with for gym/food I would just do Maths.

 

[enoilgam]

I probably should have clarified, but when I said "free periods", I was referring to period where you have to stay at school and do some work.

 

[Vision]

"They're not free periods, they're study periods". But yea nobody does a thing unless they have a test next period

Haha that's exactly what the librarians at my school say!

@OP During free periods, it would probably be beneficial to use your time wisely and do something productive like homework, or otherwise notes and assignments. But, like a lot of others have said, with your friends there you tend to get distracted a lot.

 

[Fawun]

Ideally you would want to be doing work but with friends in your free periods, you won't be doing anything

This.

I tell myself "i'm going to do this and this" but end up playing watching movies with my friends or (sneaking) eating food in the library with my friends. If were hungry, then we just go out to the shops and buy shit (were not allowed to do that but who gives a fuck lol)

 

[QZP]

I just join other classes in free periods...

 

[RivalryofTroll]

Had like 3 free periods in one fortnight back in the days~~ (i.e. last year)

20% of the time - I did work (typing up notes or doing questions or something)
20% of the time - I was sleeping cause I was sleep deprived from 4U morning class or from staying up late like everyday.
60% of the time - I was talking with friends.

 

[GabbyS]

I have 18 free periods a week (out of 38): The ultimate timetable. I do 10 units: 6 units on-line, two offline, and a distance education subject. Technically I should be working in my 6 periods assigned to distance ed, but I prefer to do it at home because it requires so much paper/listening cds/room to use books, laptop and dictionaries etc. that it's too bothersome to lug it all to school and take up 3 tables in the library, and waste half my time setting it up!

I try to get as much homework done in my frees so then my quiet study times at home are productive and spent on assessments and not organising folders or answering redundant study questions and the like. My school's librarian is so slack in terms of making people be quiet or productive, so there's always noise and distractions, so I save my essays for home. I try and socialise too, I think it's important to have a break sometimes. If I feel like I haven't done enough but I'm too tired to do proper work, I just read something, due to 4u english there is an infinite amount of wide reading to be done, or I go and ask my teachers questions about work/upcoming tasks. I think I have a 2:1 ratio of productivity:relaxation (not including before exams), and it works for me.

 

[iJimmy]

usually read notes on my laptop or type up written essays. Or when in CBF mode go to shops with friends or stare at Google

 

[Queenroot]

Free periods were the times I had all my books opened up in front of me ready to work but ended up talking for about 2 hours...

 

[gwilymprice]

Remember time is the most precious commodity that money cannot buy-use it or lose it.

Everyone will have the same amount of time, but everyone gets different marks, Why? because some plan their time wisely while others spend time procrastinating, hypothesising and worrying about the future instead of doing actual studying.

What Strawberrye says here about time is so important and is really key to going well, good time management is a great skill and will help a lot!

What I did in my free periods was try and finish as much of the homework that I had been set that day, if I could get it out of the way then, it allowed me to spend my after school time studying and revising rather than trying to finish the various things my teachers were asking me to hand in the next day. I felt like it also took the stress out of the afternoon/evening, although this was unnecessary stress, I'm just an anxious OCD