<p>I sometimes feel that I spend way too much time on my homework each night. I usually only have 2-3 hours a night, but this weekend, I've been spending hours on a lab I was just assigned, and I feel that it's way too long... So, CCers, how long do you spend on homework and how do you reduce the amount of time you spend doing it? What are your best strategies? How do you still clear out a lot of extra time for social activities, hobbies, etc.?</p>
<p>this senior year let’s see… from 3:30 pm to 6:30pm and 7:30pm to 9:00pm so that’s… 4.5 hours?</p>
<p>that’s weekday</p>
<p>For high school -
Freshman year - 1hr a night
Sophomore year - 1hr a night
Junior year - .5 hrs a night on hw and 1hr night on college/scholarships
Senior year - 5 minutes a day max, plus the occasional scholarship.</p>
<p>4.0 nikkas</p>
<p>Every week I am given…
A few pages of math
Some task for English
But other than that I just have projects or am supposed to revise for topic tests (which I rarely even do).
We have different grading but I guess that’s like mostly As with the occasional Bs.</p>
<p>Lets see:</p>
<p>-20 Minutes of BC Calc. Usually done or nearly finished by the time class gets out. Teacher also had about 35 5s out of about 50 students and no one got below a 3 on the AP Exam, so it isn’t like she doesn’t know what she’s doing with the homework load.</p>
<p>-40-50 Minutes of Physics C problems 3 times a week. Even though my teacher gives us plenty of in class work days (and very lax about collecting assignments), I prefer to get the assignment done in my spare time so that I can ask questions and start the next assignment while everyone else has about half of their assignment to do.</p>
<p>-Some amount of AP Lit. Usually about 30 minutes or so for reading.</p>
<p>-1-2 Hours of AP US. It’s always the longest assignment.</p>
<p>-About 30 minutes or so for projects/college stuff</p>
<p>IB Comp Sci: maybe 5 minutes on the online hw at most. I finish the programs in about 20 minutes.</p>
<p>IB Math HL: 2 minutes on the HW, just simple problems.</p>
<p>IB English: 30 minutes</p>
<p>IB Chem: 30 minutes on the Lab, 10 minutes on other hw</p>
<p>AP US Gov’t: at max… 1 hour on discussion questions</p>
<p>IB History HL: I can spend at max 1 hour on a reading for it. I don’t see this USH class as hard</p>
<p>IB Span: 2 minutes.</p>
<p>Honors Geometry: None basically, maybe 2 problems left if it’s a really bad day. We get tons of time to do the homework in class.
Honors English: Just weekly vocabulary, writing rough drafts, and small grammar/reading worksheets. Can be finished in study hall.
Honors Science: The worksheet packets are the most involved so I’d need about 15 minutes for worksheet/reading the lesson. I can’t always finish in study hall. Maybe ~5 minutes a night or so, average
Social Studies: The worksheets are graded harshly, but they don’t take much time to do. I can finish it with alloted class time.
We The People: This class could be no homework if you like to do it that way, but I want our team to be state champs so I spend about 15 minutes a night doing the lesson questions thoroughly.
Gateway to Technology: Required course, no homework because we don’t have the computer program at home.
Spanish 1-B: None, enough time to do hw in class. Sometimes I forget about it though and try to finish it in class and get a zero…it sucks so much when that happens.</p>
<p>Usually, I’m too exhausted afterschool to do any work, and just start HW at around 8-10pm and finish at 11pm-12am; latest I’ve ever stayed up was 2am, but that was because I started an entire chapter’s worth of AP Art History at 10pm the day before the test. Not fun.</p>
<p>Random things I do to save time:
- Learn which classes let you get away with doing HW from other classes without either losing the teacher’s respect or damaging your grade in that class
- For me, I’d rather spend hours finishing tons of work in a single subject in one night (if I can; luckily for me, my classes this year are difficult but flexible) than have to devote half an hour a day all week. It’s easier to consolidate assignments of the same subject and concentrate this way. This goes double for reading (textbook or novel) - I hate picking up and putting down books and will often mix up (for a novel) the plot’s chronology if I read this way.
- Music helps, -unless- I’m reading, then it’s distracting.</p>
<p>EDIT:
That’s happened to me before, but rarely…one time I went to the library (which was near the class) to finish it and then just went to class late afterwards (it was almost a cut, but even if it had been I’d just get my mom to clear it). But it was worth not getting the zero.</p>
<p>Precalculus H: 20 min
Chem: 5 min (blow-off teacher)
English: 0 min (blow-off teacher, no hw)
AP World History: 3 hours (I get ahead though by 3 days)
Spanish III: 5 min (easy, hw just once or twice a week)</p>
<p>Right now I spend the remainder of my time study for the SAT. After October 9, I will spend it self-studying AP Calc AB, Science Bowl, and AP Chinese Language.</p>
<p>Wow, almost all of my classes are annoying with hw.</p>
<p>4PM-6PM I’m doing Calc BC and Physics with a study group. The balance of time between the two varies by day.
Then I usually have 1 hour of English Lit, because my ANNOYING teacher treats us like 3rd graders and makes us do reflection journals for every word we read…
Then between 10min and 30min for AP Econ
10-15 minutes for AP Gov
then an extra hour or so (except for peak periods) for newspaper duties, DECA stuff, and Student Council stuff.
then a few hours on college apps and SAT, though this time is NEVER used as effectively as it should…</p>
<p>Freshman year - 2.5 hours/night
Sophmore year - 4.5 hours/night (half APUSH)
Junior yer - 5.5 hours/night
Senior Year - 2 hours/night</p>
<p>Do you guys with like 30 minutes of homework a night get all A’s? If so, your school is so much harder than mine and is unfair. Even the smartest people at my school (national merit, etc.) have to do a lot of homework to get A’s.</p>
<p>Freshman year - 1 hour per night on average</p>
<p>Sophomore year - 3 hours per night on average (mostly through AP Euro)</p>
<p>Junior year - 5 hours per night on average (AP Calc was a pain); in AP season I frequently studied from 3:30 PM to 1:00 AM without a break because of Calc, U.S.Gov, Comp Gov, etc</p>
<p>Senior year - 2 hours per night on average (which is odd because I have twice the APs as I had last year); I do have all this college stuff now, though which takes up another 4 hours a night on average</p>
<p>School nights: 4-5 hours ish
Weekends: 10+ hours
Have I mentioned how much I want senior year to be over? Or the fact that I would love to burn my school to the ground?</p>
<p>@Twins127 The Ccers on here are mostly intelligent high schoolers. However, that does not necessarily correlate with their work load. It could just mean that their schools are less rigorous. </p>
<p>I’m a senior:
3-4pm Nap 
4-4:20pm Calc
4:20-5pm Econ and/or international business and politics
5pm-whenever Bio and English. Bio takes up the most time. English depends on if there’s and essay due or not.</p>
<p>I sleep at around 12-1am. This would’ve been later if I didn’t have study hall. Actually…my sleeping time might be later when it’s November/December; it’s still too soon to tell.</p>
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<p>Agreed. This sounds more like it.</p>
<p>I’m a junior.</p>
<p>I work between 5 to 11 on homework, with 2 hours worth of work interspersed. I get distracted easily by the internet and I procrastinate all the time.</p>
<p>I spend probably 3 hours a weekend on homework.</p>
<p>BTW, right now i should be reading chapter 11 in the American Pageant and study for a ch 10&11 RQ tomorrow for such. Cool</p>
<p>Also, someone should’ve told me that it wasn’t necessary to kill myself with hard classes during senior year. That would’ve been a really helpful tip…</p>
<p>Lets see
For my monday/wednesday classes
TOK: usually about 1 hr worth of readings
IB English: just reading/marking, right now we’re doing poetry so it takes like 20 mins
AP calc: 10 problems, up to 30 min depending on how much I get done in class and how extensive the problems are
Play Production: Line memorization. Usually takes 30 min-1 hr depending on the scene</p>
<p>For my tuesday/thursday classes:
IB History: 1-2 hrs reading + notes
IB Organic Chem: no homework, just prep for daily quizzes. Occasional labs, which are a pain, but that’s only once every two months
IB Art History: 1-2 hrs a night notes analyzing artwork</p>
<p>All classes on friday so…thursday night is a biotch.</p>
<p>I haven’t been spending nearly enough time on college apps as I should be.</p>
<p>You guys have serious issues if you allow homework to take up nearly all of your free time after school gets out.</p>
<p>^ Aren’t you that one homeschooled kid whose parents worry about you because you never go out and socialize? LOL</p>