<p>I am a high school senior and I just want to know the expected amount of work that I would have to face next year. How many pages do you have to read? How often do you have quizzes/tests/exams/evaluations? How long was the longest essay that you have ever written? I just don't want to be way too much overwhelmed unexpectedly.</p>
<p>I'm a high school senior too, but I took some classes at UCLA over my Junior Summer, and there was A LOT of reading. at least 50 pages of reading for every course for the next time the class. In the Calc class I took there was a quiz once a week, and in the other two sciences there was only the midterm and final.. I don't know if that would be any help, because it is a summer course and every thing is compressed, but I think it is decently accurate..</p>
<p>It depends entirely on your college and courses. You can get a light, middle, or heavy load by choosing your classes carefully.</p>
<p>In my Chinese class, we have 3 quizzes per week and 2 hw assignments per week. Every other week we have a test instead of one of the 3 quizzes.
Math: Homework every week, and 3 exams.
Econ: 3 exams/final, random quizzes about every other week, and weekly hw.
Greatbooks: 4-5 essays, midterm, final, quizzes (decent amount of reading)
Philosophy: 2 papers and a final.
History: Final project, 5-6 writing assignments spaced throughout the semester.</p>
<p>My longest paper so far was 8-10 pages double spaced (not bad).</p>
<p>Of course time spent studying varies from person to person... but there's less of the stupid assignments you get in high school (that is, in my classes, the homework isn't lots of grunt work, or making posters and crap like that).</p>
<p>I've taken summer classes too, and they are a bit different from fall/winter. In the summer, you generally take fewer courses, so it is easier to focus. In the fall, you take many courses so you have to balance your time between them.</p>
<p>For my history class, we meet once a week and must read a book every week (usually 300+ pages) and write one page about it. For my literature class we usually have at least 50 pages of reading a week, 3 major papers during the semester (3-5 pages generally), a midterm, and a final. In my Calc II class we have a quiz every Friday and three exams during the semester plus a final. And for my Computer Science class we have a project due every week along with three tests during the semester.</p>
<p>Hmmm. I mainly do humanities/social science classes, but there is version between those kinds of classes, so here are some examples of the kinds of work I’ve had for various classes (response papers are on material read/seen for that week):</p>
<p>+English (100 level): A book a week (150-300 pg), three 5 pg papers.</p>
<p>+English (High 200 level): A book a week (150-350+ pg of difficult material), response papers (1-2 pg) every few weeks, 3 papers (5-8, 12-15, 15-20pg). </p>
<p>+Intro to the New Testaments (200 level religion): 10-40 pages of secondary sources and anywhere from a few of Paul’s letters to an entire gospel per class period. 2 tests, 1 paper (5 pgs) and a final.</p>
<p>+Religion theory class (high 300 level): 300-500 pgs a week, plus a response paper (starting at 1pg, later up to 4pgs) a week, 15 pg final. </p>
<p>+Film class (100 level): 2+ hours of screenings outside of class (plus an extra long class every week with a movie). 1-2 chapters in a textbook every week. A quiz every two weeks or so. 4 papers throughout the semester, starting short (2 pages) and getting longer (10 page final).</p>
<p>+Film class (200 level): 4 hours of screenings outside of class per week; 3-5 pg. response papers every couple of weeks (which require rewatching at least part of a movie); 20-50 pgs of reading per week (very light on the reading!); 20 page final paper.</p>
<p>+History class (200 level): 40-70 pgs. Of textbook reading per class, plus a fair amount of reading of secondary sources. 2 tests and one final. </p>
<p>So, yeah, hopefully that gives you a sense of the kind of workload you might see in a humanities or social science class. In general, it's going to be a lot of reading. Some teachers will have you do a lot of short responce type things and only a few papers, while others won't have any short papers, but a few longer papers or tests.</p>
<p>The readings I had to do for the social science classes were mostly 35-40 pages a week, and that's for one chapter. There were 3-4 exams total. For my freshman english classes, there were about 5-6 papers of various lengths, with a 5-7 page final paper, plus additional readings. They were very laid back classes. Math classes had weekly problem sets and quizzes, two exams, and a final. Science classes had online homework that was due every week or 3-4 weeks. There were 3-4 exams total.</p>
<p>I generally have a light workload... I have French homework every night, about a play a week for theatre, a (40-odd-page) chapter to read and a short paper or two to write for Education, and a worksheet due every Friday for bio. It's really not that bad except weeks like this one when I have three papers due the same day, one due the day after, a test the following day, all during tech week and while I'm scheduled to work two five-hour shifts. Fail week.</p>
<p>Im going to study econ/finance and the University of Toronto (Canada obvsly) is on the top of my list cuz I haven't taken any sat's and I don't think I am gonna have much problem getting into the school, but despite the school's name or prestigiousness, I heard that UT is academically rigorous. (not that it is a garbage school, but it's not quite an ivy and most ppl here are supe smart
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<p>Math:
3 courses * 4 problems a week, one problem can take an hour or ten. </p>
<p>Physics: 6 problems a week, I need 2-3 hrs for all of them, but I need to study at least 10 hrs a week to do well. Study as in really working on sample problems, not as in memorizing. One final.</p>
<p>I did a lot of engineering classes last year, and they were roughly similar. The problem with science/math is that the problem sets can be really, really HARD. Even if you understand everything about the lecture.</p>
<p>For readings, it was usually 100-200 pages per week. The longest paper for a humanities course was approximately 25 pages. </p>
<p>The longest report I ever wrote was approximately 200 pages for a senior project in engineering, split among three team members, including appendices.</p>
<p>Expos writing - weekly reading, 4 paper (3-4, 6-7, 9-10, 7-8, something like that for pages)
Chem regu. - weekly problems, 3 midterms and a final
Span - bi-weekly homework, 3 midterms
Chem lab - depends - generally pre-lab work, and a past lab assignment or report, 2 quizzes
Psych - 3 midterms and a final, no homework
Bio workshop -weekly homework (really easy), midterm and final</p>
<p>A lot less homework than high school, but more stress because it's only a few grades (basically, one bad grade can kill that A).</p>
<p>This is about what I get:</p>
<p>General ed lit all freshman take - ~150 pages a week, term paper (10 pages), research stuff for term paper due every couple of weeks, midterm, final, no tests/quizzes</p>
<p>General ed history - ~100 pages a week</p>
<p>World History (200 level) - 2 chapters a week plus a couple of primary sources, term paper (10 pages), midterm, final, 4-5 quizzes, 3 short essays</p>
<p>Spanish - workbook for homework, chapter tests, final, no midterm</p>
<p>Sociology - a chapter every week and a half or so, articles sometimes, no quizzes/tests, midterm, final, term paper (you have to conduct a research study), one book critique, a couple random assignments to turn in</p>
<p>I got a ton of work, but it doesn't seem like that much. Since you probably only will have two or three classes a day, you will have a lot of free time, so a lot of work won't seem like much. If you went to class seven or eight hours a day like high school and you get college work, then I don't think anyone could handle it.</p>
<p>Seriously, it surprises me that some of you have to read 100-150 pages for a class a week. I only had to read 50 max, that's a chapter a week. Maybe it's just my college.</p>