<p>Math-problems, you can often finish by the end of class
Language-vocabulary workbook pages due every week, doing assigned reading for novels[most annoying]
Science-Daily homework assignments, just 1 page front/back, you go over it the next day in class so you don’t have to do the hard parts
Social Studies-1 page of questions for each section; simple and you get time to do it in class
Spanish-workbook pages, done in study hall</p>
<p>I feel sorry for people who have to read like 20 novels in a year and have to do a bunch of homework. But students have seriously DROPPED OUT due to the workload? That surprises me! I thought that non-honors, non-AP classes to graduate were easy[or at least not very hard] at virtually every high school.</p>
<p>This year, being my junior year, I was obsessed with getting perfect marks. I probably spent AT LEAST 5 hours every night doing homework and studying. If I got to bed by 10pm it was a miracle. As someone else already posted in this thread, I really had no time for a social life. And when I did have some down time from school work, all I wanted to do was relax and have time to myself. Though all of the work allowed for me to get nearly straight A+'s every quarter and bumped me up to 3rd in my class, I am still not sure if it was all worth it in the end. I do not think that I have ever been so stressed out in my life before this past school year. Honestly, I wish I had not been so hard on myself and had tried to enjoy the year a little more. Though good grades and multiple EC’s are important to have in high school, do not kill yourself over it. It is not worth being miserable. Just remember that high school is of course going to be harder than middle school, they (teachers) are ultimately preparing you for college. So you can expect that more time will be spent on work outside of school. Now how much effort you decide to put in, thats up to you.</p>
<p>It should also be taken into consideration that everybody is different. Some people can read quickly and retain information, so chapters/questions (for classes with a textbook or normal book, like sciences/English/history) will take them a lot less time. Reading slowly works better for some people. Some people check their math work, or work slowly through the problem to make sure it’s right, as opposed to blowing through it. A lot of it has to do with the pace at which you work.</p>
<p>For me, it takes me about 2-3 hours plus my lunch period (which isn’t entirely productive) to do just my written work and note taking stuffs. Studying is an extra 2-3 hours sometimes but other times maybe 30 minutes. I often wake up early in the morning to study instead of all at night.</p>
<p>I would love it if homework didn’t count for marks. I would do it but only until I felt was necessary. ex: instead of doing 50 problems on the same thing, do 15 and see if you understand the concept.
At my school there is homework in every class almost always and teachers don’t give time to do it in class. Study hall is at most twice a week for 30 min.</p>
<p>Well, as a sophomore, I pretty much had 4-5 hours of homework a night. It’s just that teachers at my school think that their class is the MOST IMPORTANT.</p>
<p>Algebra II: About 40 minutes of math problems (~40 math questions)
Music Theory: Practically none
Biology: Lab reports + guided readings = ~1 hour a day
Euro: 12 pages of reading + analysis + notes = ~1.5 hours a day
Spanish III: A couple worksheets every 2 or so days (~10 minutes a day)
Chemistry: Periodical worksheets (~20 minutes a day)
English II: Essays, etc. It’s English, what do you expect? (~30 minutes a day)</p>
<p>So… that would be an average day. And that would be… 4 hours and 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Oh and for clarification, our school has no study hall and our teachers rarely, if ever, give time for homework in class.</p>
<p>I spent probably 3-5 hours on homework per night (often it took longer since, admittedly, I was often logged into facebook at the same time; all that led to was less sleep on a nightly basis which I got used to anyway though). I’ll just break it down by subject…</p>
<p>Spanish - Easiest class, a few worksheets or some writing was all the was needed; 10-30 mins
US History - Most common assignment was textbook reading, but if you wanted to do well you would be well advised to take good notes; 15 mins (no notes) or 30-45 mins (w/ notes)
English - Nightly reading combined with nightly journal questions (aka a few pages of writing/note-taking about what you read). 30-60 mins.
Math - Worksheets, problem sets, etc. 30-45 mins.
Biology - Nightly reading with required notetaking. 45-60 mins.</p>
<p>We get one 40-45 minute free period, though that’s often spent taking care of things (talking to a teacher, organizing something for a club in the afternoon, etc) so it isn’t really feasible to get much work done then. Based on the above, yeah 3 minimum (maybe a bit less on particularly fortunate days) and 5-6 maximum makes sense. The maximums would occur when you had one or two major tests the following day (and in general you had perhaps 2 per week). Oh and long term projects (papers, lab reports, etc) can get annoying as well; I usually had at least one of those assigned in some class at any given time.</p>
<p>Freshman year, I only had maybe 1-2 hours of homework/studying a day. Sophomore year, it was 3-4. Junior year, it was 5-6. Senior year, I’m approximating it will be 1-2 again :P</p>
<p>For me, there is a lot less busy work in high school, especially in AP classes. In fact, there’s really not that much homework. In terms of required homework, I didn’t have more than an hour of it a day, especially in junior year. The rest of the “homework” time was spent studying for quizzes and tests, or just learning the material by reading the textbook. Near the end of junior year, I realized most of my studying was done unnecessarily out of paranoia, because I stopped studying and I still made the same grades.</p>
<p>As many have already said, it’s not really the homework, but the studying, that takes a long time. Most teachers don’t even check homework at my school, and if they do, it’s worth maybe 10% of your grade. You just have to prioritize. with theatre, dance, and a job after school, I’ve always gotten everything I needed accomplished and with good outcomes.</p>
<p>As mentioned before, it depends where you go. At my school it’s 15-20 minutes of homework. Most it you can finish it at school except for projects. As for studying? Usually 10-30 minutes max. I think it’s purposely done so everyone can pass.</p>
<p>Last year (junior), I would say that I had around 4 or 5 hours of homework a day.</p>
<p>English (honors): read in whatever book we were reading/answer questions (around a half hour to 45 minutes) and usually be working on an essay too (if I have an essay I try to work on it for at least a half an hour each day)</p>
<p>AP Bio: Read one of the chapters in the book three nights a week as well as answer the study guide questions for that chapter. That would take easily two hours if I was doing a thorough job(there were sometimes thirty questions and they all required lengthy explanations). We would also have to do lab write ups once a week that would take around two hours as well (and that was with my friends and I working together on them!)</p>
<p>Calculus: About a half an hour’s worth of problems a night.</p>
<p>AP US History: About 10 pages of reading from the textbook as well as answering questions (this took around 45 minutes)</p>
<p>French: Pretty much nothing ever haha</p>
<p>Photo: Would take a really long time to make sure that I was getting the assignment done with the right lighting and I had to work on an assignment pretty much every day.</p>
<p>Some teachers at my school expect you to only take 1-2 ap’s your junior and senior years. So each knowingly assigns 2-3 hours of h.w accordingly.</p>
<p>I usually got assigned at least two hours of homework every night.however, I never did my homework.I would try to finish it in school whenever there is free time, otherwise I’m like screw it. Didn’t help my grades though.</p>
<p>I’ve never had more than an hour and 30 minutes of homework a night. I go to a school in the “boonies” as most of yall would call it if I told yall the high school. You probably can’t find the county on our state map without squinting (not that its small, but the name is hard to find). I took half regular, half honors this year (freshman year you can only take up to 4 honors classes). I’m taking 6 honors and 2 regular this year to challenge myself.</p>