<p>I'm a junior business major at UF.</p>
<p>Only business major answers please.</p>
<p>Do you guys read EVERY chapter that the professor is working on? Or do you kind of just sort the readings out based if you think is neccessary to read the text book for that particular class? I spend about ~6-8 hours studying a day everyday. To clarify, do you read the chapters for every single class your taking? I just find it very un-realistic to read every chapter for every class because chapter are between 28-40 pages a chapter for one class per chapter. So then multiply by 4 that is roughly around 140 pages to read of chapter material in a matter of a week. not to mention study time, old exam problems, understanding the material, lab work, leture time, tutoring zone if needed etc etc.</p>
<p>any inputs?</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>No! It could be different for your major specific classes, but I don’t read my books at all for the businesses classes.</p>
<p>it’s not worth the time, don’t even try. they cover everything in the lectures, and then use smoking notes and tutoringzone.<br>
I do buy my books for reference if there is homework for the class, but other than that, don’t bother, it is just too much reading to reasonably do. </p>
<p>Or you could strategically read chapters. only read the chapters when you don’t understand the lectures, or only read the books for your difficult classes. </p>
<p>I do read the textbooks for my major specific classes, just cause I want to make sure I know it, and usually they are not covered by smokin notes or tutoringzone.</p>
<p>Thank god. I haven’t been reading my chapters for about two days now and i’ve had a guilty feeling of being down on myself and my studies, but i realized that it takes up WAY to much time to just to read the chapters while i could be studying the material that is going to be on the test. And do real practice problems.</p>
<p>Thank you for your time and your response ^^</p>
<p>how are those Smokin notes? Are they’re really different for the TZ notes? Are they essential to you?</p>
<p>Thanks glasswright</p>
<p>6-8 hours including the weekends? Is this counting class time? How do you spend that much time on a business major without reading all the chapters? What classes are you in? Are you going for a 4.0 or something? </p>
<p>Econ major in two econ classes right now I usually try to go to all classes and keep up then wind up putting in like 10 hours of review within a couple days before the exams. admittedly I am not at the top of my classes but I’m doing fine. I might not read if it was a class that had tutoring zone/study edge because they take the time to filter out stuff and put it in really simple terms.</p>
<p>Unfortunately due to calculus 3 I am still putting in around 40 hours a week but thats counting time in class on the clock</p>
<p>the tutoringzone packets are more for the terms/less mathy business classes. marketing, management, the intro econ classes.</p>
<p>yeah, I personally think it is better to get involved, get internships, be a leader on campus, than get good grades. I don’t spend too much time on my classes cause I’m really involved on campus.</p>
<p>But I still have a 4.0, so maybe I do study a bit more than other people.</p>
<p>6-8 hours of readings plus chapter work, practice problem etc. these 6-8 hours do not include TZ lectures and class time lectures… So figure it’s ALOT.</p>
<p>FIN3403; ACG31XX; MAC2234 (calc II); qmb3250;</p>
<p>well, with those classes, yeah you should be studying a lot. you just picked a crappy schedule.</p>
<p>Finance takes a lot of studying just by itself. I know when I made an academic plan, the advisor said to take all my easy classes the same semester I took finance. when I take it, she put on my plan two classes for my minor and an econ elective, although to me that seems just a bit too easy. I don’t know why you would pick calc 2 and qmb to take at the same time. but atleast now you’ll have a lot of your difficult classes out of the way for next year. :)</p>