<p>To be a straight-A student??
I assume most people on this site are A-students, or on their way there (to come to this site you are pry concerned with your education, and so try hard as hell to get to good colleges).
So I ask you, how much studying do you put in on average per night (after coming home from skool)?</p>
<p>as in straight 7s?? hah good one</p>
<p><em>lol</em>
But yeah as in straight 7's..
so??? What do the straight A students spend on studying every day?</p>
<p>it depends on the classes and how hard they are....and how crappy the school is....</p>
<p>i donno about straight 7s.. but im getting mostly 6s and few(as in 1) 7 and i do bout 2 hrs a day.. but a lot on weekends.. it really depends on what test or wtv im studying for.... so i guess u can do bout 4 if u wanna get all 7s... but wouldnt tht qualify as STRAIGHT A+'s??</p>
<p>well I have 5 A's and one B last semeter.</p>
<p>I do homework for a "long time"
actual study+homework on average about 3, the stuff thats due the next day
I spend another hour on long term projects every night too.
So thats from 4 to 7 then dinner and then 8-9. I have about 3 hours afterward to anything. This is a good day</p>
<p>on a bad day
I get home from a club at 6.
6-7 8-11<---I probably fell asleep sometime during this period, reading Brit Lit is boring. This is asumming I don't prorstinate an hour or 2 . In that case that pushes me to 1 am.</p>
<p>I have a 3.8 GPA unweighted with numerous APs...i study about 20 min. a night, and im really just doing the homework. i dont study for tests</p>
<p>some people i know, straight As, study about two hours a night. others with 4 hours.</p>
<p>I have never felt the need to study all that much, except when there is a test really soon. I have never studied past 10pm. I find if I work hard during class there isn't that much to do outside of it. 2-3 horus at night at really stressed times. But most of the time not so much. I think that if you have to work youself into the ground to get straigh A's and stay up all night, then you should really think about going to a less selective college. It is only going to get harder and you won't be able to keep up. I suspect many people have to stay up late studying not due to lack of talent but lack of time managment. In this case I have no sympathy whatsoever.</p>
<p>Yeah I don't study either. Sometimes Calculus takes about 2 and a half hours, though. But really, you study for a long time if you're insecure or if you don't know the basis of the material. If you know the basis for calculus, you don't need to study that much because it's all right there. The only class I really feel I need to study for is history, because people in history can be unpredictable.</p>
<p>meh studying doesnt really happen much laziness is kind of overpowering
i do no homework all week but on thursday nigths i can spend like 5 or 6 hours and on sunday nights maybe a good 2 or 3 so 7-9 hours a week on hw</p>
<p>My personal experience... It takes a combination of studying and natural talent. About 5-6 hours for a test if it's honors, 2-3 for anything else</p>
<p>um holy crap. My personal experience...30 min. for honors test, class before if it's for anything else.</p>
<p>Oh yeah? Ok now any of you who replied have straight A's, or consider yourself good enough to enter Cornell or, say, Stanford?
Is there a top top school you can get into without studying yourself silly?</p>
<p>I just did an hour of maths (advanced) and it's really gotten to me (I got some of the questions wrong and it frustrated me greatly. thing is maths is v annoying, when you don't get it right). Plus now I'm really tired. I think I'm just going to read some economics, then go do something else. Already 8:30 (pm) over here.</p>
<p>Studying is not an easy task, but I've decided that from now on I'm going to revise about 2 hours a night.</p>
<p>By the way is just reading the stuff okay? Or to get straight A's do I have to really take a more active approach on a daily basis?
I find that just reading helps tremendously, as then uncounsciously you gradually take in all the information, and after a few weeks of reading can know as much, if not more, than after 2 nights of cramming.. Am I right or am I right?</p>
<p>hmm? eh? wot?</p>
<p>Are you OK?</p>
<p>I study under an hour per night. Admittedly, I'm a senior, and grades aren't so important anymore... But last year, I never studied more than an hour or two per night. </p>
<p>It's not about studying for long periods of time. It has more to do with how to maximize a small amount of time. That's the true skill that will get you into America's top schools.</p>
<p>Me... I study about 30minutes a day on average, the majority of the time is 0, but I cram quite a bit before major tests/night before a project is due. I'm making somewhat poor grades this year(several B's) mainly because I haven't really bothered to do homework at home this year - mostly its during lunch.</p>
<p>One of my friends went to Harvard 2 years ago, he hardly ever took any of his books home, and rarely bothered with any homework. That being said, he scored like a 1580 on the SATs, was in the AIME(almost USAMO I think), AND was a legacy. </p>
<p>If your looking at an Ivy, I'd say try for about 3-4 hours of homework a night unless you have a good deal of natural genius, a major hook, or a legacy.</p>
<p>I don't study ever. Not kidding. I also rarely did the readings in my social classes. I get much more of a thrill out of guessing on quizzes. Also, I have a half photographic memory, so whatever the teacher says, I remember, etc.</p>
<p>Nick, its what works for you. I'd recommend trying to find what works best for you. Take your time, and take your homework extremely seriously for a bit. Then see how much you can slack off/rush gradually without losing that caliber of work :).</p>
<p>I don't study ever. Not kidding. I also rarely did the readings in my social classes. I get much more of a thrill out of guessing on quizzes. Also, I have a half photographic memory, so whatever the teacher says, I remember, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah. Photographic memory. It rules.</p>
<p>I began studying for IB exams, about 2~3 hours a night, but not much overall.</p>
<p>For me, getting straight A's isn't so much about studying as it is doing homework. I didn't do any homework freshman year, got straight B's. Did most/all of my homework the last two years, all As except one class where I got a 92 (the teacher could just as well have drawn numbers out of a hat for our grades, we quite literally did nothing every other day).</p>
<p>"Not kidding. I also rarely did the readings in my social classes. I get much more of a thrill out of guessing on quizzes. "</p>
<p>I don't know what kind of a grading system you are on, but generally if you don't read the stuff you fail the quizzes here (unless you are psychic and/or steal the answers), which brings your grade down. YMMV, I guess</p>