Poll: Gaming in Exam Time

[Schneebly]

I am currently in the middle of my A levels, and I have put my xbox into self-imposed exile until I complete my last paper. This was a hard thing to do!!

I was wondering, how did you Escapists approach gaming in these difficult times?

 

[bodyklok]

Just started my GCSE's, I've been playing a bit tonight.

 

[messy]

Just about to start my A2 exams, normally i revise for around 3-4 hours a day, the rest i just chill so if i feel like gaming i will

 

[MrBirdy]

I try to game less, but since i am a C student anyway. I ussually spend like half an hour on learning the rest watching tv.

 

[xXGeckoXx]

I game less......Or try to at least. It isn't that easy

 

[Schneebly]

Personally, i just have enuf willpower to use gaming as a reward, so i revise for a few hours and then game and repeat process, however, sometimes i dont have this willpower and just waste a day i could be revisin

Yea its that last part of your post that made me put the dear xbox away.

 

[Gamer137]

Since half my classes are pretty easy, I use those periods to study for the other half rather then at home, so I game about the same amount.

 

[massau]

i try to stop when it is exam time and i never buy a game when the exam "are in sight"

 

[Nargleblarg]

If you mean give up games to study I laugh at that. I haven't studied for......anything besides a driving exam in over 6 years. I'm just talented at school I guess, I never study but get all A's oh the irony. But I do realise that one day I will have to stop gaming to study and I don't look forward to that.

 

[ffxfriek]

instead of 20 hours a week i play maybe 10

 

[Schneebly]

If you mean give up games to study I laugh at that. I haven't studied for......anything besides a driving exam in over 6 years. I'm just talented at school I guess, I never study but get all A's oh the irony. But I do realise that one day I will have to stop gaming to study and I don't look forward to that.

What do you have to study for 6 years after a driving exam!?

 

[Sgt Poppinfresh]

I game as much but start studying pretty far in advance.

 

[Lukeje]

If you mean give up games to study I laugh at that. I haven't studied for......anything besides a driving exam in over 6 years. I'm just talented at school I guess, I never study but get all A's oh the irony. But I do realise that one day I will have to stop gaming to study and I don't look forward to that.

What do you have to study for 6 years after a driving exam!?

He hasn't studied for anything besides the driving exam.

...and on topic... I'm trying to quit, honest, but Earthbound just keeps dragging me back. Damned addictive JRPGs...

 

[Nimbus]

Poll needs more options; I seem to be gaming more than usual.

*Sigh, I'm gonna fail :/

 

[FallToYourDeath]

I try to revise but my xbox 360/PC always lures me in, like now for instance im suposed to be revising english literature but instead im on The Escapist. If i fail my GCSE's im blaming this site.

 

[Avida]

I stopped all social gaming prior to the important ones, but a couple hours on SF4, valkyria chronicles or some groupless WoW quests every other night was fine. its only Sorta related but i made sure i cleared all time-consuming RPGs just before the 'revision period' kicked in, took me a good week and a half solid.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I'm doing my GCSE's so my revision plan is revise for hour or so then play half hour games as a break. It works so I'm sort of playing more than I would.

 

[Limasol]

First year of a degree, my gaming has decreased but not stopped
usually its reserved for late in the evening so i don't feel like i could be revising.

 

[Hot'n'steamy]

I game more. I will do 6 hours revision a day ish, in 40 minutes plugs, and break 20 minutes at a time on games. I hardly play at all whilst in lectures really.

 

[iain62a]

"Procrastination is the thief of time"

Truer words have never been spoken.