<p>How much HW can you expect from Cornell (in hours each night)? If you can please state how many hours you spent doing HW in high school and your current grades now at Cornell. Thank you!</p>
<p>this is a moronic question...all depends on major..please refrain from asking moronic questions</p>
<p>Well, the amount of homework will depend on the particular class. Some classes, like my spanish class, have daily homework assignments consisting of worksheets and short compositions, while other classes have no homework at all and others have only reading assignments. In general classes in the hard sciences and mathematics will more or less have daily or weekly homework assignments including problem sets, labs, etc. Classes more in the humanities will generally only have reading assignments with the occasional paper. It all depends, I suppose, would be the general idea I'm trying to get across here.</p>
<p>I guess I meant if you want a biology major.</p>
<p>if you take the standard bio, chem, calc and writing seminar. . . </p>
<p>Writing - you will have a total of 6 major papers due for writing, along with reading assignments every class (about 50 pages/class). You will also probably have a lot of little assignments depending on the class.</p>
<p>Bio- You will have to read a chapter, or usually two a week for bio (they quiz you in class with clickers). There are online quizes about once every other week. . .they are 10-15 questions long, and you really have to research each question to get it right. You will also have a lab, which involves one major animal behavior research paper for the semester, there are no involved writeups, but you have worksheets, a prelab quiz every week, there are also three major lab quizes and a lab practical which involve a lot of studying. This is on top of the 2 prelims and a final you will have for bio. Bio takes up a lot of time.</p>
<p>Chemistry- We cover about half a chapter a lecture. Depending upon the professor you have, the reading may only be supplementary. There is a problem set due every week. Labs are formal writeups, and you need to complete prelaboratory questions before coming to lab every week. There are two prelims and a final.</p>
<p>Calc- I took engineering calc, so the regular bio is a little different. But we had a problem set assigned for every class (7-10 questions), three exams and a final.</p>
<p>Hours per day totally varies . . .sometimes you'll only have a few hours worth, other times you will be up all night, but not often if you manage your time well.</p>
<p>In highschool I had minimal homework 1-3 hours a night. My grade at cornell is about an A-.</p>
<p>how about the amount of hw for ilr, aem, hotel?</p>
<p>ilr varies from week to week ... the week or so leading up to a prelim is usually non-stop at the library (it is for me at least). For the past 4-5 days I dont think i've spent less than 7 or 8 hours a day at the library studying for two big midterms. </p>
<p>Ususally it isn't nearly as bad. Depends alot on the classes too. History for ilr will require alot of reading (usually about 400-600 pages a week, depending on your teacher), but classes like HR and OB can be blown off until the week leading up to a test. </p>
<p>Under normal circumstances, an hour or two a day on top of classes is usually a safe bet for ilr.</p>
<p>What about daily homework and study hours for Engg? I am just curious. During the regular period and just before exam time? (It appears from this thread that the variation can be large.)
How many hours of sleep does one have have during normal period and before exam time- everywhere I read that engg can be tough at Cornell.</p>
<p>I'm a bioengineering major. . . .but my schedule probably resembles more of a bio major with engineering math, than it does something like a mechE.</p>
<p>It's a lot of work, but I don't lose sleep when it comes to studying for exams. If you understand things as you go along, you still have to study a few hours each day up to the exam. . .but you shouldn't have to have an all night cram session unless you really don't know your stuff. Cramming tends not to work anyway, I find cramming just makes you feel unprepared, stressed out, and deminishes valuable sleep time totally destroying your ability to reason out difficult questions. </p>
<p>Most intro classes are on a curve, so your grade is relative to everyone else. There are enough people that don't know what they're doing that the mean is manageable to beat most of the time. Getting As require you to know things cold, because you have to score higher than about 83% of the class (1 standard deviation). It's still within reach though, it just takes some effort.</p>
<p>Sometimes you will have work that takes you from 1:00-midnight to complete, other times you will have a light homework load. Usually it's about 3-6 hours a day.</p>