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Thursday, May 4, 2k17: EXAM TIPS

4. May is AP Exam season! What are your tips for studying for tests?

May Study challenge by nkbstudies

So here in Canada, we don’t have AP at every school and our exams are at the end of June. BUT, I have picked up a few tips. 

1. Make review sheets at the end of each unit. By the end of the semester, these will pile up and you can look back @ summaries of the entire year. Here’s a quick way to create one, s/o to my Math teacher. 

2. Flash cards. Ofc this one is obvious, BUT instead of just defining the term, try to get the term by the definition, work backwards! 

3. Clean/organize/create a new layout for your study. This’ll help to not only distract you but motivate you bc everything will look nice now. It’ll also give your brain a new place to work at. 

4. Practice Worksheets. A lot of you like to rewrite your notes (and so do I!) but another thing that is similar and works well is creating mini worksheets and working on them whenever you can. Whenever I know that I’m going to get these say like four questions wrong, I would make worksheets of about 10 questions and add these ones in them, sometimes worded differently. I do them whenever I have a spare moment, such as on the way home, during lunch break, at homeroom. This forces me to think and eventually causes me to remember them. Try to pick problems that you know for SURE are on the test!

La Beyoncé.

i liked beyoncé’s lemonade video a totally normal amount, and this was an excellent use of my time. 🍋🐝

Why buy a cow when we have steak at home?

Why buy the cow when you can surreptitiously milk the neighbour’s?

Hey. I was wondering if you had any books you've read that you'd recommend to others? Thanks in advance.

Oh yes, I always have many book recommendations! It depends on what your preferred genre or tastes are, so I’ll just list a bunch of my favorites for you. Also apologies for taking so long to respond to this - college is wrecking my time availability. ( & taking away from my reading time )

Classics : 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

Paradise Lost by John Milton 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

1984 by George Orwell 

Contemporary : 

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Heist society by Ally Carter

It ends with Us by Colleen Hoover 

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

This is where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Historical Fiction :

And I Darken by Kiersten White

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente 

Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman 

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

Horror : 

Mara Dyer series by Michelle Hodkin

The Call by Peadar Ó Guilín

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Fantasy/Young Adult : 

A book of spirits and thieves by Morgan Rhodes

A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J. Maas

A daughter of smoke and bone by Laini Taylor

A series of unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

An Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir 

Falling Kingdoms series by Morgan Rhodes

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick 

Incarcenon duology by Catherine Fisher 

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan

Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks

Obsidian Blade by Morgan Rhodes

Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard

Six Of Crows Duology by Leigh Bardugo 

The Diviners by Libba Bray

The False Prince series by Jennifer A. Nielsen 

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare 

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Winner’s Trilogy by Marie Rutkoski

The wrath and the dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Mystery/Crime : 

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Plays : 

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Medea by Euripides 

Anything by Euripides for that matter!

Sir gawain and the green knight

Romance : 

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead 

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons 

Science Fiction/Dystopia : 

Insider duology by Maria V. Snyder 

Legend by Marie Lu 

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken 

Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown 

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

The Darkest Minds series by Alexandra Bracken 

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

So precious - the purest

me: i’m not clingy me ten minutes later:

Kathleen Sukiennik - ravens and blackbirds.

Word Counter - Not only does it count the number of words you’ve written, it tells you which words are used most often and how many times they appear.

Tip Of My Tongue - Have you ever had a word on the tip of your tongue, but you just can’t figure out what it is? This site searches words by letters, length, definition, and more to alleviate that.

Readability Score - This calculates a multitude of text statistics, including character, syllable, word, and sentence count, characters and syllables per word, words per sentence, and average grade level.

Writer’s Block (Desktop Application) - This free application for your computer will block out everything on your computer until you meet a certain word count or spend a certain amount of time writing.

Cliche Finder - It does what the name says.

Write Rhymes - It’ll find rhymes for words as you write.

Verbix - This site conjugates verbs, because English is a weird language.

Graviax - This grammar checker is much more comprehensive than Microsoft Word, again, because English is a weird language.

Sorry for how short this is! I wanted to only include things I genuinely find useful.

"I'm not here to fix you, I'm here to hold your hand when you do"

K but can we end this toxic cultural idea that if your s/o is dealing with an anxiety attack or in the down spirals of depression, that you’ve somehow failed them??? and the corresponding idea that you are solely responsible for their mental health and/or one of you is the “cure” for one or more of any mental illnesses? 

like that shit is NOT healthy. You really love them? Then just be there for them. If it’s too much for you to handle, if it causes you any distress, then leave. This kind of mentality is EXTREMELY toxic, even though you may have the best intentions.

a couple of my bg paints for tangled the series!

because it’s been too long since I’ve posted pictures of my cat