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I have a load of coursework that I know I need to do, but I just keep putting it off.  When I do sit down and try to do it I can't concentrate and keep getting distracted to go and get food or check whats on TV etc.  Anyone got any suggestions?

I do all my work at my desk here so I always get distracted, but sometimes (like this Monday & Tues) my conscience gets the better of me and I work my bollocks off

Set yourself little targets and when you acheive them then treat yourself to a break. Sounds obvious but it's the only thing I can think of that has a remote chance of working, other than going to somewhere really quiet where televisions don't exist

I normally wait until the middle of the night when nothing much is happening.

That's also another good'n

i could do with help on this too!  :(

Even cricket is more exciting than revision  :o

Johno it doesn't matter for you, GCSEs are a waste of time and they're easy anyway. Just learn all the key points you can find in any revision guide and you'll be fine. Except maths, that's all about practice.

Drink is the answer.  :beers:

Fuck off Si!

His exams matter to him as much as yours do :x

Get in there Mr Red.  :D

There, is only one true motivator in this world: pressure

The setting yourself targets thing is probably right, do a topic, give yourself a porn break, do a topic.... :wink:

Hahaha  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  my post was a joke, hence the cricket comment as well. Although I do think cricket is boring....but that's a different matter

I'm yet to find a way of making myself work. I still leave everything to the last minute. Knowing that it's 6am and you only have 8 hours till hand in tends to be pretty good motivation.

what's work?

I'm dead worried that I'll never get any work done when I'm at college :(

I'm starting to wonder if this is true. I did fairly well last semester because I went out and got drunk and stuff. This semester I've hardly been out and my units are going really crap!

In my first year at uni my programming module was completely coursework based. I did every bit of work hammered and managed to get a first in the module. Think it depends on the subject though. Other things I've managed hammered have been essays on quantum physics and general and special theories of relativitity.

I just think the units are harder tbh. Bollocks, I just realised I still have to do a 40% assignment for June 13th. I've done half of it, just need to do the write up (stats coursework)  :x

I'm just glad I'm done for coursework. Some reason I find exams much easier. Think it's just that I've been blagging exams since GCSE's which is about 5 years now, and thats not including mocks / sats before that. Got the exam technique down to a tee, but still really lazy when it comes to coursework

Exactly that's my problem as well I think. Although there's been so much courework to do it's buggered up my whole semester. Much prefer exams.

I did one of my courseworks at 4 in the morning straight through till 2pm after going to see dj zinc when I was hammered.

I normally have a couple of beers before my exams, helps me think.

I must say drinks before an exam - I couldn't risk it  :soapy tit wank:

I've been more organized this semester than any other - I worked a full 12 hours straight just to get a bit of coursework done. Finished it at 5am and then chilled/slept all weekend. Hand it date was 3 weeks later  8)

Getting my mark for it on Monday though  :|

sod revising and sod uni/gcse's - i can always use a few people to run packages around for me........ :shock:

I've been absolutely hammered for one exam, it was A-level Physics after the Brazil game in 02. My mate had poured beer over my head in the morning so I turned up to the exam having drank 6/7 stellas and reeking of alcohol. Don't think I did too well, but got enough to get into uni so it was all good in the end.

I don't really drink before exams 'cos I'd have to keep going for a piss during the exam.

I've never started work on a coursework that long before it's in. Had a whole semester to do one essay and I still left it until a day before it had to be handed in. Got a fucking good mark for that though (27/30) but often it doesn't work.

Don't think I've ever finished a coursework before the day it was due in.

I'm usually the opposite - the last minute wonder but for some reason I was feeling really stressed with everything and vented my frustration by doing some work  :?  

It was a great idea and I think a tactic I will employ next year, because I stay up all night quite often anyway

I find it really hard to bother working.

I know that I could walk in to every single one of my exams and get a C or above, so find it hard to find something to aim for.

I decided I should aim to get all As, then can realise how little I did to achieve it later, thus motivating me to work hard for ruture exams!

I know I've got to get this coursework done tonight, so I've put some music on, had 2 strong coffees, so I'm up for the night now until it's done

When I started secondary school all the teacher's thought I was bright, gradually by the end they all thought I was stupid, which made me want to show them(did anyone else have really vindictive teachers?).  A-Levels even more so.  I rememer going to get my GCSE results and only one person(Geordie) saying well done to me all day.  Everyone was either pissed off because they'd fucked up, or didn't even bother to get their results.

University I went to after a year working.  Made it even harder.  Shows how low degrees have dipped when I got a 2:1.  I did nothing.  If it had been something I was interested in I could have done it.  Only had one good teacher as well.  I had a Quantatative Methods teacher who couldn't add up  :D

I know that feeling AK. When I started college I had these real old teacher for geography. He was crap at teaching. He was so boring - the type of fella that checks into a hotel and looks where all the fire exits are, instead of the bar. Anyway after getting a lowly 41% on the first mock test (also because I couldn't be arsed) I decided to work harder. Sure enough, I put in the work and I began to actually learn stuff! Next exam I got above 60%, so dead chuffed, like.

This teacher was a real arse. He sat down with everyone in the class (individually) and predicted them their grades. The fucker said I would be lucky to pass! He then asked me what I got for my GCSEs. He couldn't believe to hear that my A* was in Geography. Anyway, got to the exam did well, got a B overall. End of the year he told me I should carry on with the full A-Level, I said get knotted and I fucked off.  

It's funny how something can be your favourite subject, only for a cockhead like him to screw it all up for you. To go from scraping an E to a B just shows what a motivational effect his comments had.

But Si, A-Level geography is a funny old subject.  Not sure if you did the same exam board/syllabus as me etc. but we have synpotic or "decision-making" papers which complicate matters, plus it is seemingly far removed from GCSE Geography, where I too got an A*.  A-Levels now (not sure how long ago you did yours) are seemingly based on luck and willingness to resit - I'm doing modular, which seems to encourage complacency rather than hard work.

There's such a vast difference between a teacher / lecturer that is still enthusiastic about his / her subject and is able pass that enthusiasm onto the students and a teacher / lecturer who has clearly had enough of educating but is just hanging in there because they know no other way.

There’s definite correlation between my grades throughout education and those teachers who inspired me to be interested in a subject. I enjoyed maths throughout school, got a good gcse, then got a shit teacher for A level and couldn’t be bothered with it at all.

I’m gutted now because the money’s in maths and I know I had the potential

Now I’m gonna be just another faceless Business graduate!
How do I motivate myself for that?

When I did GCSE I worked bloody hard and learnt everything properly. AS-Level (apart from the decision making paper) was pretty similar to GCSE. Moreover, I seem to get on fine with the other teacher, and grades for his half of the subject were encouraging. I guess the boring one demotivated me by his crap teaching!

I'm almost regretting not doing a maths degree. My A-Level tutor advised me to, but I couldn't be fucked to even do further maths

My predicted grades for A-Level were C/D/E for Business studies(you could put the highest on your UCAS form), D for English Language, And E for Geography if he pulls his finger out(they actually wrote that).  I got BCC in the end.

When I'd decided to quit my maths degree my tutors basically begged me not to drop-out. They couldn't understand my reasoning because i'd passed my first semester exams.
I was really enjoying it too, but one of my modules relied almost totally on my [non-existent] A level knowledge and I couldn't risk that ruining my whole degree in the later stages.
Tough decision, regretted to this day.

Might do something in maths through the OU now.

I got predicted an E at AS Human Geography, I got 100% on the exam. :mrgreen:
The teacher was alright though and she was fucking fit, it's just I spent every lesson talking bollocks with my mate who was normally stoned and I never did any work. And we did what was supposed to be an important presentation about housing in the docklands on a scheme to build houses on 100m high platforms above a forest underneath. "Biomech: Houses Above Trees: It's not possible with todays materials but in 10 years time who knows?". I thought that was a great idea but my teacher didn't agree, although everyone else loved it. Anyway i digress, sorry.

Because of that though I liked geography as it was always a good laugh so it was the only subject I really paid any attention.

I normally stop listening after about 1 to 5 minutes or less in all lessons/lectures and I always have done. If anyone has any motivation tips to prevent that then please help me out but I think it might be ingrained in me now.

Matrices :|

I would have thought that a fit teacher was a good thing to keep your attention focused on her

Nope because you won't listen to anything she's saying, that's why I know nothing for law  :wink:

Yes it was.

I had a rubbish teacher once for Biology.....it was a small group and teh science lab had solid benches with a well for two stools cut into it every so often.....I was the only lad in the group.....so used to sit with a bird, and took to a practical study of the female human anatomy.....nether regions....... to alleviate the tedium.

  The bird loved it.....wearing stockings and suspenders, despite the fact that tights were becoming all the rage at that time.......the teacher who was clueless and a spinster of the parish had no clue what we were up to......it was an odd set up because she was never a girlfriend or someone I spent any time with....just ships passing in the night.

  Think its where I got my first significant insight into girls periods.

 Got a crap grade though.