<p>So, Im a freshman in high school. I have a 4.00 GPA and 4.5 HPA with AP and honors classes. Usually I go to sleep around 10ish doing homework, but when i have an AP test or unusual load of hw it's around 11:30ish midnightPlease b honest, is it supposed to be like tis? I will be taking more AP classes next year. it's supposed to be like ths right, with all the work and stuff? Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you like working from the instant school gets out? Because a lot of people would love to be able to get to sleep at 10 every night.</p>
<p>Nope. That’s a lot. Fact is, APs were originally a college level course. So, you’re a freshman and taking APs? You should be sure to also do other activities besides just those APs. It’s great that you’re so “committed”, but give a rest. You’re 14 yo? Are you enjoying this stuff or just worrying about college? Because college is only 4 years in your life, just like HS.</p>
<p>It should not be like that even with all advanced your homework should take 60-90 minutes at most. You should spend about 15 min per academic class.</p>
<p>OR you can do what I do and when I get home make the choice between COD or homework and I ALWAYS choose COD. :)</p>
<p>Lucky Soccer then!</p>
<p>As I’ve already been admitted, I’m just ‘maintaining’ grades, and not really working for a GPA, but I do have four APs out of 5 classes. Most kids I know do not get to sleep until midnight or later. APs all together probably take a few hours, depending on the class, and the amount of effort/homework/study you put in. Add that to classes, jobs, volunteering, etc, and I hate to say it, but you’re spending too much time on class, but not enough time in general if you work from school till 10.</p>
<p>The more APs you take, the less sleep you get. And honestly, it makes sense- APs are college classes.</p>
<p>@Soccer that’s completely wrong! Most homework assignments from AP classes take at least 30 minutes to an hour, then theres studying for tests. I’d say 10 is very reasonable. However, the 11:30 is a bit long unless you have a lot after school or you procrastinate like I do XD.</p>
<p>@RAINBOW - Do you not like my choice between COD and homework I think its working out well.</p>
<p>lol wow, everyone here gets to sleep earlier than i do. i thrive off the adrenaline of procrastination… i don’t know it’s bad i know. but somehow i often find myself awake at 1 in the morning furiously typing away at a paper that’s due tomorrow or studying for a major test i have the next day.</p>
<p>most of my peers do that too (well, my peers who actually try in school stay up pretty late too…)</p>
<p>haha
but then again, i’m taking all AP classes this year, so maybe that’s why… though i still think it’s mainly due to my procrastination …</p>
<p>You should be getting 8 hours of sleep a night. [Pause for laughter.] Realistically, 6-7 hours of sleep a night is probably the minimum, excluding a few times a year when you have to get 4-5. You need you pick a realistic balance of advanced and regular courses–one that, even with ECs, will allow you to go to bed fairly early. And you shouldn’t work up until you go to sleep. I recommend at least an hour, preferably two or three, of down time before bed, at least a few nights a week. Your schedule should never feel impossible. </p>
<p>Here’s a great article on making your schedule work for you: [Study</a> Hacks Blog Archive Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours](<a href=“http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/15/fixed-schedule-productivity-how-i-accomplish-a-large-amount-of-work-in-a-small-number-of-work-hours/]Study”>Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours - Cal Newport).</p>
<p>gac–GREAT site and a refreshing viewpoint on EC’s, thanks!</p>
<p>I would love to go to sleep at 10 each night. I suppose if I really dedicated myself, on most nights I could, but on M, T, and W last semester because I had college courses and ECs ine after the other, I had no time to start on HW until 9:30 PM. (However, I usually went to bed immediately, and woke up at 3 or 4 AM to do HW.)</p>
<p>I usually have about an hour of HW for chem, two hours if it’s a lab, an hour to 1.5 for World History (it’s all incredibly pointless busy work, but if I do it, then I can get C’s on tests, which is actually a “good” grade in there, in comparison to others because the teacher literally does not give lessons), and an hour+ for physics. Sometimes there’s English homework, and I always do that too well, so it takes an hour. Or longer, if it’s reading. If I have tests, I study for about three hours for physics (still fail every test), 30 minutes for chem (still ace every test) and not at all, usually, for the others.
I have a free bell/study hall, so I suppose I have an hour in there, but I chose to be a “student helper” for my former math teacher. So of my 50 minutes in study hall, I have to spend about 10 minutes washing her overheads, but it’s a good trade off for being able to text, make phone calls, wander around the school without being asked questions, and listen to my iPod. I usually spend the time in there catching up on sleep or working on my choreography for ballet, since I can listen to my iPod. Sometimes I do chemistry HW, but I find chem HW fun.
My chem teacher gives us time to do work in class sometimes. Sometimes I’ve been like a week ahead in my chem HW, but that always seems to happen when we’re having like a physics test every week and we have some gargantuan paper where the amount of thought I put into my paragraphs make them each take 3 hours. I’ve stayed up for over 48 hours twice this school year.</p>
<p>^Jesus Christ child! I had a similar schedule, but I decided that was ridiculous. I study and do homework during class (the class it’s for or classes later that day after it’s assigned), learn to skim readings, pay attention in class (I do “quiz and recall” method studying while writing the notes), and start on papers, projects, and labs ASAP (I only have to do 30-45 minutes for like three nights to get them done). </p>
<p>This is with a debate schedule that requires me to be gone most Saturdays and do heavy research during the week, a mentorship with a well-regarded poet in my state, being fiction editor of my school’s lit mag (fairly legit), running Relay for Life, starting a French club at a local middle school, and other ECs that pop up throughout the year. Oh, and 8 IB/AP classes. </p>
<p>I promise you it’s possible to beat your schedule into submission. And I’d even argue that it’s necessary, since a good night’s sleep is conducive to focusing during the school day, which is imperative if you want to get your work/studying done in class.</p>
<p>I’m in IB and my AP courses give very little homework (AP Spanish, Stats, Gov) but that’s because those are the APs that are generally viewed as the easier ones. lol During the winter, I have swim practice until 6 and other extracurriculars depending on the day. And I got to sleep between 11:30 and midnight if I’m lucky.</p>
<p>wow, soccer, your high school must not be very rigorous if that’s all the homework you do! In my kids’ hs, that’s the amount of work that would be a minimum for kids NOT in any advanced courses!!</p>
<p>I see it both ways. Personally, if I do take homework home I finish within an hour (not counting essays/projects/etc.) for all my AP/honors classes. But one of my good friends has the exact same schedule as me and spends at least 2 hours a night. But she has slightly higher grades than I do. It’s all about how efficiently you do work.</p>
<p>Studying and the adjustment to college work load isn’t bad if you’ve got the right resources!
I’m a big fan of using this website called [■■■■■■■</a> - Exams, Professor Ratings/Reviews, Study Guides, Grade Data, Flashcards](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■.com%5DKoofers”>http://www.■■■■■■■.com) its a place where students from your school rate professors and upload their past exams, quizzes, and notes! Its awesome! check it out!!</p>
<p>I spend about five hours completing homework (9 PM - 2 AM) per night while studying for eight AP exams and two college courses. That actually is not as strenuous as it should be.</p>
<p>I think the Study Hacks link is similar to the advice in the book “How to Win at College” EDIT: Duhhhh. The blog is WRITTEN by the guy who did “How to win at college.” Woowwww.</p>
<p>Avoid daily to-do lists. Basically you should take an hourly schedule of your day, and block it out with things you HAVE to do- ie classes and ecs that are at set times. Any unopened space it time to work. When work is done, then it’s free-time. But I think you’ll find 11pm a perfectly reasonable time if you’ve got a heavy course load. I would argue that MOST teens stay up this late anyways- Although you should have freetime built in there somewhere. If your problem is being an early bird, go to sleep earlier and do your homework in the morning.</p>
<p>…the ■■■■■■■ site is useless if you don’t have a school email address yet. Worse it looks a little suspicious…I’m not sure how happy schools would be if we got cliff notes for all classes. I could be wrong though, but there’s no way for me to access it privately and try it out. <a href=“Introduction to Estate Planning - Lecture Notes | FIN 4004 | Study notes Civil Law | Docsity”>http://www.■■■■■■■.com/files/notes-2bl6u4wrrm/</a> It doesn’t even look like notes, but instead, answers to the tests. The flashcards look legit, however.</p>
<p>There was a study recently, reported in the NYTimes, that said a 90 minute nap is actually very helpful and good for your memory. After a nap, you are much more able to retain information.</p>
<p>Happy Siesta everyone!</p>
<p>^Personally, I’m a fan of 20-30 minute naps with a coffee right after (though I’ve heard you should have a coffee right before, and it’ll kick in right as you wake up). </p>
<p>If I have a 90-minute nap, I’m just feel lazy and gross, and then I get in a vicious cycle of going to bed too late, needing a nap, rinse, wash, repeat. </p>
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<p>For those of us with early school starts, we’re waking up as early as 5 or 5:30 anyway. Last year, I would wake up at 4 to finish (or <em>ahem</em> start) papers, but I realized that I didn’t sleep well because I was panicking about finishing my work. Now I get all of my work done the night before and backpack packed so I can wake up as late as 6 and get ready in 20 minutes (impressive for a girl, mind you–my little sister gets up at 5) without panicking about forgetting stuff. </p>
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<p>Eh…I’ll concede that going to bed at 9 or 10 a few times a week (which Cal Newport and his 9-5:30 student workday would absolutely not approve of) is reasonable, but you should be done by 7 or 8 at least once or twice a week so you don’t feel insane. I find that working past then, even with a heavy load of ECs, is usually unnecessary if you’re actually focusing on your work.</p>