<p>Ok, so I've seen the "How many hours each day do you spend on Calculus" post. Now, I wanna ask you, How many hours each day do you spend on Chemistry? Not including lab and lecture.</p>
<p>I also know the rule of thumb of 3 hours per credit.</p>
<p>I’m in General Chemistry I right now…and honestly probably about 20-30 minutes at a time, usually twice a week. My professor recommended that we don’t get the textbook, and he doesn’t have us turn in homework. He gives us packets with additional exercises in them, and he’ll tell us to do somewhere from 3-10 of them at a time. We have daily quizzes, and he’ll assign us a few problems at the end of each lecture to get ready for the quiz at the beginning of the next lecture. </p>
<p>The problems usually don’t take very long. I usually just work through them the night before the corresponding quiz. It rarely takes me more than half an hour. When I have an exam coming up, I’ll spend 5-6 hours over the course of the weekend getting ready for it though by working through all of the exercises again. So far I’ve gotten A’s on all the exams, so my system’s working pretty well.</p>
<p>tl;dr- Roughly an hour a week. With an additional 5-6 hours the weekend before an exam.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly I didn’t do anything until the day before tests (this is for general chemistry). On that day I just did all of the homework problems. Of course now I spend more time on my upper division chemistry classes (though still not as much as I should).</p>
<p>If I didn’t have daily quizzes in my chem class, I probably wouldn’t really spend any time studying until before the exams either. We do a lot of examples in class, and the in class examples are usually very similar to the test questions.</p>
<p>But, chemistry also comes fairly easily to me. I’m a physics major, so a lot of the topics are fairly closely related to things I’ve already seen before.</p>
<p>If you’re someone that doesn’t have a knack for the sciences, more time than that is probably necessary. One of my friends is in the same chem class as me (she’s a psych major) and she probably spends about 15 hours a week studying for it.</p>
<p>The 3 hour rule is kind of unnecessary in a lot of classes.</p>