<p>In my freshmem orientation, professor told me a college students has to work at least 2 hours per each credit hour he/she has to form the top group.</p>
<p>I want to hear from experienced students what their studying hours were when they were freshmen and how those numbers increase when becoming soph, etc.</p>
<p>depends what major you are.</p>
<p>but if you are an engineering major, studying will be a full time duty. maybe 8 hours a day or more im not joking.</p>
<p>Actually its quite the opposite for me. I spent about 4hrs a day studying during my freshman year when I was taking classes like, mechanics, gen chem, E&M, diff eqs etc. My soph year however, I studied like 0 hrs a day due to the fact that I was taking mostly GE classes.</p>
<p>It depends...honestly study something until you get it. For example just study the lecture and do that reading until it clicks. It may take 2 hours, more or even less time. However when midterm time comes around you'll see how much it will pay off.</p>
<p>I think everyone should study at least 10 hours/day(including classes,homework)</p>
<p>For me it varied between 5-10 hours per week most of the time and over 100 around midterms and finals. I don't suggest that method, although I received very good grades.</p>
<p>it really depends on the class. some of my classes say right on the syllabus that to receive an A you should expect to spend up to 10hours/week doing work outside of class</p>
<p>I think a valid point is that you should remember that when it comes to earning an A its not quantity but quality. I known tons of people who study all day everyday and not all of them get an A when there are others who study only a few hours outside of the classroom and get an A. The difference is study methods you have to find out what works for you.</p>
<p>^ that is because some people are born smarter than others</p>
<p>^ No, it's because some people grow up in an environment that lets them develop better academic (reasoning, writing, whatever) skills.</p>
<p>barium, some people are born naturally gifted. It's nice to think that "all people were created equal" but totally inaccurate.</p>
<p>Intelligence is like anything else to a certain degree. From the moment you were born you could have been trained to be the best runner in the world but if your genetics are bad you're not going to be a world class runner. It's reality. Intelligence is the same way. Some people just aren't ever going to be able to learn very fast, and to say it's completely due to their environment is misleading. While a portion of it IS due to the environment it's wrong to say it's ALL due to the environment. Otherwise please explain child prodigies and the borderline-mentally retarded.</p>
<p>It's the classical nature vs nurture debate. I personally believe that nurture is more significant than nature for 95% of people, excluding the bottom and the very top. It's nice to believe that intelligence is inborn because then it wouldn't be your own (or anyone else's) responsibility if you are not a straight-A student. Ask any teacher if they think that good students are naturally gifted or hard workers. They will tell you that most of them work hard.</p>
<p>To add to my previous post, the result of school systems that place students in different tracks at an early age suggests that your environment makes a huge difference. In some part of Germany a kid's 4th grade GPA determines which school she goes to: college-track (-> doctors, lawyers, engineers), vocational (-> truck drivers, waiters, plumbers) or a blend of both (-> nurses, sales people, accountants).</p>
<p>Kids close to, but on different sides of, the cut-off GPAs presumably have similar academic skills at that point in time, but 6 years down the road there is a huge difference in their reading, writing and reasoning skills, as well as general intellectual curiosity and even social skills (with a few exceptions of course). Now either the government hit the magic GPA cut-offs for 4th graders, or your environment plays a tremendous role in your intellectual development.</p>
<p>The truth is probably somewhere in between. It may be impossible to train a normal person to be a field medalist, but its entirely possible to train a normal person to be an A student. Also, there has been research done that suggests that a persons IQ is plastic( i.e can be risen due to training)</p>
<p>Also, Myth Social</a> intervention cannot raise IQ.</p>
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<p>I really want to know how many hours a week last year I studied. I took 5 classes, and the amount of studying recommended by some (2-3x the amount of hours you spend in class) ceratinly did not add up to the time I spent, but I pulled several all-nighters in order to manage a 3.8 GPA. And I had a couple "blow-off" classes. I spent 30+ hours studying for each of my organic and bio finals, and probably 15-20 for each hour exam (5 total between the two classes), and probably 5-10 hours for each organic quiz, not to mention 5-10 hours a week for lab (outside of lab), a few hours to write a weekly paper for honors, a few hours for my econ and spanish classes per week, and a few hours spent doing other random biology and organic homework.</p>
<p>And I still managed to participate on varsity swimming, SGA, IFC, Campus Crusade, blog for our school website, pledged a fraternity, and went out 5-6 nights a week. I keep trying to look back on what I did last semester, and I still don't know how I managed it.</p>
<p>This semster on the other hand, I have five classes, but I spend maybe 5-10 hours per week studying/reading. I'm sure that will increase later, but it certainly won't match what I did before, especially since I switched to an easier major (economics).</p>
<p>engineering is really gonna be 8 hours a day?!?!? O_O
goodbye social life...</p>
<p>ha I would never let that happen. Before I lose my social life, sleep goes first.</p>
<p>It'll be kind of like high school. There are gonna be some kids who breeze through with minimal studying while laughing at the kids who study until 2-3 am every night.</p>