<p>My mom tells me to plan 2x the number of course hours I am taking for studying and homework, and I was just wondering how true this is. If you could also post your GPA that would be great.</p>
<p>I’ve found that to not be true for me at all. This semester especially. I pretty much pulled a few all nighters this semester studying or doing papers (14 credits). Last semester I had a busier schedule and spent maybe 8/9 hours a week on work, perhaps 11-15 hours a week when I had a test (was taking 17 credits), and had a couple of difficult courses for me (physics being one, which I’ve never taken before).</p>
<p>My current gpa is a 3.54. After this semester I think it will be around a 3.64. My college isn’t great. Its in the top 100 for colleges and in the top 50 for public schools. I would imagine a more difficult school would have required more of my time. Oh, and I’m a science major.</p>
<p>8 hours, but im in high school.</p>
<p>After my first year I have a 4.0. I’m done with all my gen ed’s after the end of this summer partly thanks to AP credits. I never studied until the one or two days before each exam. In all honesty, it depends on each individual class. Gen ed. requirements are all usually easy, so what your mom said won’t hold true until you’re done with these. After that, the saying is probably going to be pretty accurate for the most part with a few exceptions. It also depends on how quickly you can pick up material and if a subject is completely foreign to you or not. Not to mention there are also courses that you have to actually practice problems in like Organic Chemistry or Calculus.</p>
<p>jk lol, idk maybe 3-4 hours…i have 3 APs right now</p>
<p>4.3 gpa</p>
<p>usually under an hour, unless there’s a big paper due / tests, but I think it depends what school you go to mostly, im in 3 AP’s</p>
<p>I don’t have that kind of time (majoring in maths and engineering), but for hard subjects it is certainly true. (at least at my college…).
Also depends a lot on how much reading you have to get done, and how many essays you have to write. (And sadly, those essays take a lot more time than in high school…)</p>
<p>We don’t have GPAs, but I’m in the top 10% for almost all my classes.</p>
<p>For me, an average day would be about 4 hours of reading/writing. During heavy writing weeks, easily around 8 hours/day on top of classes. However, I’m double majoring in reading-intensive fields, and I spent considerably less time studying when I was a science major (even when I took ochem and calc). Senior, 3.91/4.0 major GPAs.</p>
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<p>This is my situation right now–no more than 10 hours a week typically, during finals or before exams I would frequently study all day every day, including weekends. I have a 3.71, 18 credits last semester, 12 this semester and a science major. It largely depends on the classes you take. There are classes where extra time spent is optional. For example, in my school’s relatively good honors college I was able to spend only 4 hours every fourth week writing the essay for each of my intro honors courses, but that was because I never did the reading. Had I done that it would have been at least an extra hour each day per course, thus approximating (no, EXCEEDING) the 2:1 rule. I got an A and an A- in those classes but with the reading I could have guaranteed As for both. There are also courses where you need to do very little work at all–Calculus II for me was preposterously easy and I got away with 3 hours the night before each exam with four total exams. Genetics, for instance, was the other way around, with 5 hours of study being the norm per lecture, with 2 lectures per week.</p>
<p>The 2:1 rule is an overestimate in my opinion; it’s not something you’ll really be able to plan for until after you’ve finished at least a month in college. Just study the amount that feels right to you and don’t constrain yourself one way or the other with silly ratios.</p>
<p>Atm…Like two. I expect my time spent studying to shoot through the roof once I transfer.</p>
<p>I usually study about four hours a day, more or less depending on what the material is. I try to study until I have a firm grasp of everything that was reviewed in class. I tend to read ahead though.</p>
<p>usually like six or so, but finals week i’ve been working pretty much all day long, breaking only for eating, some sleep, and showering (oh and, a few posts here, otherwise i’d go insane).</p>
<p>The general rule is 3x the number of credit hours will be spent outside of class. Example: 15 credit hours = 45 hours outside of class = 60 hours a week on school total. </p>
<p>On average I probably spend around 30 hours per week studying. The past couple weeks more towards 40-60.</p>
<p>i think that “general rule”, which i’ve heard before, is so bunk. a, because a lot of schools don’t use the 3 credit per average class system, b, because it depends SO much on the sort of reading and homework you’re assigned in each class, c, because it depends so greatly on the rigor of your school.</p>
<p>I spend about 14 17 hrs a week doing homework, will pick up 9 credits this quarter, and have a 3.5 GPA. Like most of the others if you have a test or paper do you have to put the time in. I dont think about following a general rule as some classes come easier than others.</p>
<p>I have four APs, two honors courses, and straight A’s.</p>
<p>So of course, the answer is 0. If I can’t get it done at school, then it just wasn’t meant to be finished.</p>
<p>Soad,</p>
<p>I wish my school was like that.</p>
<p>I was taking 17 credit hours last semester and working 18 hours per week. I managed to study about 3 hours per day. And more during test week. So on average I spent around 25 hours a week studying, 17 credit hours in school, and 18 hours of work and was a member of the Tennis Team and lifted weights and played Volleyball; and Not to mention I was a commuter :). I didn’t watch Television(Besides battlestar galactica which is 1 hour per week) or play video games; I never had any free time.</p>
<p>And I only managed to get a 3.38 GPA last semester despite being academically disciplined.</p>
<p>Now when I went to a party school I managed about 3 hours a week of studying on Freshman classes with 15 credit hours. I got a 3.94 GPA.</p>
<p>So it really all depends on the difficulty of the school and your classes.</p>
<p>I have a tendency to cram a night or two before exams. It hasn’t worked out too badly so far: 3.13 GPA heading into my Senior year of Electrical Engineering.</p>
<p>I have a lot of labs though, and I spend a considerable amount of time on those.</p>
<p>at the most like 9 for 15 credits, plus an alll day study sesh usually before a test. its worked so far bc i have a 3.82. I tend to put off reading though if I can help it</p>
<p>Well to be honest 3 hours daily but with full sincerity is more than enough. (It works for me) :)</p>