<p>I've seen that its usually double the credit hours. How much do you study and do homework? Does it just depend on the week in the class, or is it consistent?</p>
<p>It really depends on the class. Easy classes might take just an hour or two outside of class, except before midterms. Hard ones might take 15 hours a week or more or outside work for 3 credits. </p>
<p>I am in engineering classes and most of them have a weekly assignment. Midterms require more work, though if you were to be disciplined and study more than a few days before the midterm, you could have a consistent load. Other majors have more papers and fewer assignments.</p>
<p>One of my classes this semester would take 15-30 hours a week, another I put virtually no time into. It really just depends on the class, the teacher, and your own study habits and abilities.</p>
<p>It really does depend on the class. I had English Comp II this semester…and aside from the actual time spent writing the two papers we had over the semester…I didn’t spend any time studying. We were given a reading assignment every class period out of the text book…but after the second week of the semester, I quit doing any of the reading. It was really just busy work, and wasn’t that relevant to anything that we were doing.</p>
<p>My Social Problems class this semester had a lot of assigned reading material too…but this reading material was crucial, because our tests were virtually all essay questions. We had a lot of supplemental reading material in the form of articles/essays online…and many of the essay questions were pulled directly from these articles. We never really knew which topics were going to be covered most on the tests, so it was crucial to read all of the material.</p>
<p>My chemistry class required a decent amount of study…but it was really only like 2-3 hours a week…an extra few hours when a test was coming up. </p>
<p>My math class is the only class I really spent a lot of time studying over this semester, but that was mainly because I ran a study group with some of my classmates. My version of “studying” was really just helping other people.</p>
<p>It depends on the class and how well you grasp the concepts. If I have to write a paper, I can leave it until 1-2 days before it’s due and write it then, since I’m extremely quick at researching and typing, and I always get a B+/A- on my papers (I once wrote a 5 page paper for a music history class 4 hours before it was due. Got an 89/100 on it. I’m always happy whenever I get anywhere from a B to an A on a paper) anyway. </p>
<p>With science classes, it takes me a lot longer to process the information. For my organic chemistry class, I spend 1.5 hours rewriting my notes while listening to the latest uploaded podcast (I listen to the podcasts as soon as they become available) and 10 minutes each day learning each reaction in the chapters covered. I don’t spend more than 10 minutes on each mechanism, because I’m fairly quick at memorizing those (I used to suck at memorizing mechanisms and used to spend 30 minutes to an hour per mechanism, but while taking biochemistry last quarter, I had finally realized that what helps me learn is to look for patterns and to look for what’s new and different).</p>
<p>When course loads are measured in credit hours (e.g. 15 credit hours per semester), the nominal workload is 3 hours per credit per week, including both in-class and out-of-class time. So a 15 credit course load is supposed to be 45 hours of work per week.</p>
<p>Actual workloads have been declining over the years, so current workloads are probably more like 2 to 2.5 hours per credit per week (30 to 37.5 hours per week for a 15 credit course load). There is variation by course; courses with labs, term projects, art studio, music performance, computer programming, and other time hog aspects can take more time than other courses with the same number of credits.</p>
<p>As everyone else has pointed out it depends on the class and your efficiency in work. I had one 3 credit class in the fall semester whose hws would literally take me 10-12 hours a week to complete and midterm & final projects would take up to 27 hours over the course of 2 weeks and another that would suffice with 0 hrs of hw and 1-2 day cramming before a test. Mind you, I got a lower grade in the former class.</p>
<p>What do you call studying?</p>
<p>If pure studying and not doing homework, then I’ve probably spent less than 15-25 hours total studying over 6-7 weeks in the quarter system. If you mean doing homework then I’ve spent quite a bit of time doing homework as “practice” on the way to going into a test. </p>
<p>I spent 99% of pure studying cramming the 1-2 days before the test. For instance, in easy liberal arts general eds I just paid attention in class and got an A on the test without studying. It was a 100 question exam for my anthropology 201 class. For Partial Differential Equations I spent 2 days studying from the very beginning teaching myself everything we needed to know for the exam and got an 88 when the average was 56. And a lot of those people study in groups and religiously. I think when it comes down to studying at like 6 hours a day for a particular class you’re not studying “smart”, it’s more like a drill. But that doesn’t hold for every major or every class. In Sampling Theory I studied 2 days before the test, went through over 300 pages of the text learning everything, and came out with an 80. Average was 65. We were allowed ten pages of notes, I just used like half a page. When you’re using ten pages of notes…I don’t think you’ve learned anything. My Set Theory class I put a lot of time into naturally so I can’t really say anything about that. It’s just the way the class is structured. I’m not really studying the chapters, I’m doing lots of proofs as practice.</p>
<p>For upper-division biology courses, I divide the number of credits for that 16-wk semester by 2 to get my number of hours of intense cramming per week (usually before quizzes/tests).</p>
<p>But most people aren’t capable of this because they’re not experienced enough. </p>
<p>No B or lower grades yet. Message me if you have questions about my method.</p>
<p>Consider college a 40hr week job. If you’re in class 15hrs a week then try to put in 25, for studying and labs. (More if you need it). GL</p>
<p>Depends on the class. I think Curt and I have the same teacher - discounting time spent in class, I spent maybe two hours overall on English and got a 98%.</p>
<p>My psychology class, about the same. I studied a bit in the beginning when there were a lot of new concepts but after that didn’t bother. Also got an A.</p>
<p>Math, meh. Studied maybe an hour a week, averging out the weeks I didn’t study at all due to knowing the concepts. Should have studied more. Got a B, but I think the professor forgot to drop my lowest score. Ah well. Doesn’t count towards my GPA.</p>
<p>BIOLOGY. I studied two hours a day, every day. Not including all day study sessions towards Finals. Because I did poorly in the lab section I ended up with a B. Otherwise I consistently did the best in the class.</p>
<p>I said all that to say this; trust your gut. You know what you don’t understand, what you need to work on. If chem is easy, don’t waste your valuable tim on it. If you get sweaty palms just thinking about your history class, study all the time.</p>
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<p>I had Montino for 103…is that who you had?</p>
<p>It was an easy class…I’m not sure what my actual final grade was, but it was probably around a 98%. I got a 98% on the one short paper…and a 97% on the longer research paper…plus I got 100% on all of the other assignments relating to the research paper.</p>
<p>Aside from the time I actually spent writing the papers…I didn’t spend any time studying for that class. I did the assigned reading for like the first week or two, and didn’t open the books up again for the rest of the semester.</p>
<p>if I get a dollar for every school is asked, I could make it rain. It’s extremely dependent on you</p>
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I had Montino for 103…is that who you had?[\quote] Ah, no. I had Berkey for 101, and am taking him again for 103 (yes, I have been accused of being a masochist lol). The syllabus is nearly identical to what you describe for your class though.</p>
<p>It’s funny…I’ve heard a lot of people say that Berkey is a horrible, impossibly difficult teacher…and I’ve heard a lot of people say that he’s a really cool, awesome teacher. I’ve never really heard anything in the middle. It’s always one extreme or the other. A few of my friends had him this last semester though, and they made it sound like he was a very difficult teacher.</p>
<p>(we need to stop hijacking threads) He is a bit of a grammar nazi, but imagine how disheartening it is to watch so many students fail ENG 101? He has done some extrodinarily kind things for me, so he is awesome in my book. But I know a couple people who took him online, and cannot stand him.</p>