Should the 2 week holiday before term 4 (term 1 of year 12) be taken advantage of (1 Viewer)

[Ethaw]

Should I just rest, or should I try to get a head start and make notes on all syllabus dot points/look at past papers/ preemptively write generalised essays or creatives?
Or should I do nothing except rest (and read the english texts, since I've already started).
I've been doing a fair bit of work recently to try to make up for hardly doing any earlier in the year, so I dont want to burn out, but at the same time I want to do as well as possible.
Additionally I could probably do a bit, but not take too much advantage of it (e.g like 2-4hrs a day)

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[strawberrye]

Here's an extract from my senior study guide which you might find helpful:
You should strive to achieve the following objectives in your holidays:

1)RELAX:To truly relax after a tiring school term-you should go out with your friends-particularly over the summer holidays where you have a longer period of rest, leave 2-3 days a week to relaxation and fun-do things you enjoy, it is very important to re-energise and re-vitalise yourself so that you are highly motivated for next term, as well as following a consistent study routine because a healthy body will mean a higher capacity to cope with the stresses of senior years-(making sure you have good physical and psychological health is a vital key to achieving your PERSONAL BEST)

2)EVALUATE:To evaluate over your previous term's performance and establish short term and long term goals and strategies on how you could improve, establish more efficient/effective study habits-experiment with new study methods and routine, organize your room/study file/study schedule if you haven't done so-and enforcing regular self-discipline and independent learning in your study.

3)REVISE:To revise over all content learnt(because they will be examined in trials at the end of the year-not just in end of term assessment tasks, so more regular revision is better than revising the whole year's worth of content at the end of the year) and learn new content-preferably at least one term ahead of the school, but make sure you do questions/practice essays/creative to be able to utilise both past and new content effectively-highlight any parts you don't understand to ask the teacher during next term

4)PREPARE:To finish exam preparations for assessments that are established early next term, i.e. perhaps your half-yearlies for English, and to finish assignments due early next term as well as any homework allocated by your teachers.

In summary, you should definitely take advantage of the holidays-but don't burn yourself out-those two weeks can be very valuable to get ahead

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

Have a break. Maybe work on some maths. I recommend doing a little bit of work, keeps the tempo going