<p>I'm curious. How much do you study for a math/science class for midterms/finals?</p>
<p>Last semester I took:</p>
<p>Engr 100: I studied just a few hours for each the midterm and final. I studied on my own, and I just looked over the material that was covered. Note though, that only 25% of our grade was based on tests, most of it was based on projects and writing assignments.</p>
<p>EECS 203: I studied about 30 hours for the first midterm (which was way more than necessary, but I aced it), then about 10 for the 2nd midterm and 15 for the final. I studied a little bit with others, but mostly by myself. I went through all the old homework problems and re-did all the moderate and hard ones, and for the first one I did a lot of other problems from the book.</p>
<p>EECS 280: I studied about 20 hours for each the midterm and final. I have no idea how to study efficiently for that class (no problem sets, no solved problems, how do you study for a class like that?), so most of that time really wasn’t productive. I studied with others, but it was basically just a bunch of us not knowing what we were doing racking our brains and coming up with nothing. </p>
<p>Econ 401 (which involves a lot of math, so I’m including it): I studied about 20 hours for each of the midterms, and like 6 for the final (felt very comfortable with the material). For each of the midterms I did all the practice tests, practice problems, and old homework problems. </p>
<p>I got flat A grades in everything except EECS 280, so it was enough in all of those classes.</p>
<p>Hey Vladenschlutte, I was doing a search on EECS 280 and came across this thread. Could you please give me some info on EECS 280 and 203? How much work do you have to do for each class? I am considering taking these classes along with Orgo I and bio 171 next semester, and I was wondering how hard it would be to get a good GPA.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!</p>
<p>Both 203 and 280 a lot of people seem to find pretty easy, and others seem to find very hard. </p>
<p>The workload for 203 isn’t very high. I spent on average about 4-5 hours on each of the 12 problem sets, and then the amounts of time above studying. I really liked 203, I thought it was fun. 203 is just a math class, if you are okay at math the class will be fine for you. </p>
<p>The workload for EECS 280 is pretty high if you aren’t experienced in programming. I found the format of the class really caused me to just *waste *a lot of time not getting anywhere. Try to do as much of your projects as possible during office hours if you’re not an experienced programmer, because otherwise it get’s hard to get anything done. I’d say I spent about 10-15 hours on the 2nd project, 45 on the 3rd, and 25-30 on each of the 4th and 5th projects. Beyond that, there’s no other work. This class is very hard if you don’t have a lot of experience programming. I think EECS 183 provides better preparation for 280 than Engr 101 does, because people from 183 said they had already done a lot of the stuff we did in 280. </p>
<p>However, if you ask others a lot will tell you the opposite, that 203 is impossible but 280 is super easy. All depends on the person.</p>
<p>Math: a few hours. I spend more time on the homework</p>
<p>For most science classes, studying the weekend before can be sufficient given that one has kept up with material (~20 minutes a day) beforehand. The one definite exception to this is biochem, lol you need at least a full week to study for that class.</p>