<p>HOW MANY HOURS OF HOMEWORK DO YOU GET?
per day?
per week?
per year?
maybe never??
do you cram???</p>
<p>any tips on how to study and ready up for exams? papers? notes? anything?</p>
<p>That will depend a lot on the course. Some courses have regular homework assignments (especially math and sciences) while others might just have two big papers or projects or exams. </p>
<p>And what is "homework" anyway? Do you count studying as homework or only work that will be collected and graded? Maybe a better way to phrase your question would be how much time do we spend doing school work. </p>
<p>On average I spend about 1-2 hours studying/working for every hour I spend in class. In other words, I work maybe 30 hours a week outside of class, but only half of that time actually goes towards "assignments".</p>
<p>that includes weekends correct?</p>
<p>Yes. (10 char)</p>
<p>Depends on the courseload. Some classes have a lot of reading, some have none. Some have a lot of work outside of class, some require very little. Some require hours of studying for a test, some have tests online.</p>
<p>Honestly, during my first semester, I might have spent about 10 hours a week studying/note-taking/reading outside of class.</p>
<p>I had about 30 hours a week of homework and readings fall semester. When I had a project due, a test, or midterms/finals add ~5 hours for each class I had something in.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman and the first semester I had, I didn't study or start doing assignment till the due date. So often times I didn't study a minute per day, but when the due date came close, I found myself staying up all night rushing to finish the task. So my study hour was really arbitrary and fickle. So, yes I crammed the whole semester and my first semester of the college wasn't so great.</p>
<p>for the rest of you....
are you guys fast or slow readers??? do you take in information fast or slow???</p>
<p>illusionsx</p>
<p>what college did you go to with such a light workload???</p>
<p>Depends on the courseload. Some classes have a lot of reading, some have none. Some have a lot of work outside of class, some require very little. Some require hours of studying for a test, some have tests online.</p>
<p>Honestly, during my first semester, I might have spent about 10 hours a week studying/note-taking/reading outside of class.</p>
<p>Honestly, that depends on the course load. For example, last quarter, I took multivariable calculus, biology, and physical chemistry. If I had spread out the homework from all classes evenly every week, it would have come out to 1-2 hours a day (this doesn't count studying for tests).</p>
<p>As far as exam prep tips, I found that it really helps to take a look at any practice exams made available to you.</p>
<p>I think that college students who only study 10 hours a week have the wrong priorities, unless they are working a full-time job. They could easily get more out of the classes they are taking (e.g. by doing more background reading), take more classes or study something else on their own. Of course college is about more than academics, but I believe that learning should at least be close to a full-time job.</p>
<p>^^Some people only need 10 hours a week to "get" the material. Unless you're pre-med or engineering, what exactly would be the point?</p>
<p>For the OP, I definitely wouldn't recommend studying an obscene amount of hours every week though. You will burn out by the end of the semester with this approach. I've never come across a professor at my university who even encouraged this method.</p>
<p>How about classes?? how does everything schedule out??? is it always crammed into each other?? I hear alot of people running from one building to the next...also is it true that you can go to class when ever you want???</p>
<p>You can do whatever you want in college. Going to class is usually not mandatory and there arent any truancy officers breathing down your neck forcing you to do anything. </p>
<p>Schedule is whatever you want to schedule I don't know where you are hearing this people running about campus deal but I don't and I don't see many who do.</p>
<p>The only time you'll be running from one building to another is if YOU schedule classes back to back on opposite sides of campus. Class isn't mandatory (usually. sometimes professors factor attendance into your grade though, so be sure to read the syllabus thoroughly) so you can go whenever you want, but it's to your benefit to show up to most classes. Obviously, if you are sick, unless there is an important exam that day you should probably stay home so you don't get everyone else in your classes sick too. </p>
<p>I honestly don't really keep track of how many hours outside of class I study/do homework. Some nights not any, some nights mucho. This past semester (fall), I did alot of reading and homework on Mon and Wed nights because I had a class on Tues and Thurs which had many reading and writing assignments. I also did homework on Tuesday nights because I had two classes on Wednesday which usually had assignments due that particular day. But I rarely did any reading on Thurs nights, and never did any on Friday. Sometimes I would study on Saturdays if I had tests coming up the next week. Sunday I would usually go to the library for a couple hours if there was some reading or hw I needed to catch up on. I sincerely doubt I've ever regularly, as in several weeks in a row, done 30 hours a week of homework/studying outside of class. I've never found it necessary to do THAT much work for school (maybe if I was really dedicated to getting a 4.0... but I'm okay with my 3.47). I'm sure occasionally if I have several tests and/or projects/papers due in a couple weeks span, that I would do that many hours of studying (or more) for it. But that much studying just takes it out of me. During finals we had 5 hour long study sessions for more than one class in my major (it's a small major so we all pretty much are in the same classes and know each other), and that was ridiculous. I don't know how people study that much ALL the time.</p>
<p>Three-four hours a night. However, I'm also cramming to double major in computer science and biomedical engineering, and considering whether it's worth taking on journalism.</p>
<p>Depends. The most I've had in a week, which was when I had two essays to write (didn't procrastinate btw), I had around 40 hours of studying/homework/reading.<br>
I only took 12 credits last semester though: one 3 credit lit course, one 3 credit religion course, and a 6 credit intensive language course.</p>
<p>The lit course lots of lit reading and some article reading (articles could be up to 60-70 pages that take around 4-5 minutes for a fast reader to read), which totalled around 6-12 hrs weekly (maybe a little more when article heavy assignments were given). I read fast and don't skim though. At least compared to the 3 kids in my dorm that were in my class it took me half the time that it took them to read everything. That class gave the most work/reading, especially when you are slammed with a large essay when you still have to finish the book.</p>
<p>The religion class assigned a fair amount of reading. Averaged around 8-10 hrs. per weeks for the first month, then it got better, like maybe 4 hrs a week thereafter. Studying and essays included (2 essays) I'de say the weekly average was around6-7 hrs.</p>
<p>The language class gave the least amount of work. I spent about 1.5 hrs a week doing optional homework (which is definitely a good idea), and about 30 minutes to an hr reviewing/studying vocab. I'de say the weekly average was probably 3 hrs. when including studying right before tests.</p>
<p>I really had no problem with the workload. Did really well too. Strangely I found myself working often 1/2 or 1/3rd of what many of my classmates worked and still did better.</p>
<p>I had spent maybe 2 or 3 hours doing assignments for each class, but also another 2 or 3 hours studying the material so I can actually do the assignments.</p>
<p>the reading is somewhat terrifying for me since im somewhat a slow reader...-_-"</p>