<p>How many chapters of a textbook can you go through? And please list concrete examples (even if you only did it once). I'm just curious.</p>
<p>I can do 1 chapter of a college textbook per day (without doing exercises).</p>
<p>But it's difficult for my attention span. I've done it by reading the entire chapter and highlighting a lot of phrases (1 chapter per day for Zumdahl) but was too darn tired to really do any exercises (though I probably could have done them if I had more self-efficacy). Then my attention span expires and I go forum or something. Still, at least it was good enough for a 790 on the SAT II Chemistry. </p>
<p>I'm doing it again for another textbook now. Ugh, same process once again... I wonder how much faster it would be if I got Adderall...</p>
<p>doing nothing but study? if it's history or a social science, five or so, but that's the entire day. and such is what i do before finals, of course. </p>
<p>if its a science or math, i just stare at my closed textbook, push it aside, look through my class notes, and then pretend the whole thing never happened.</p>
<p>i read the zumdahl chem book over the weekend once for a midterm... it was hell. absolute hell. but i got pretty far. i think i studied about half the book. but don't do it. it really is a bad idea. moral of the story: just study for the midterm over a longer period of time.</p>
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<p>(a) AP exams; it's April
(b) procrastination (self-studiers, college students, and HS students do it frequently)
(d) cost/benefit analysis: one day is of limited marginal utility to entertainment value, but could be huge for a single subject.</p>
<p>the books I mentioned were Phillip Kottak's "Cultural Anthropology", Spielvogel's "Western Civilization", and David Kennedy's "The American Pagaent". </p>
<p>I don't care if Kennedy is some wonderful Stanford professor, the way he writes the textbook is hilarious. Native Americans feasting off the roasting carcasses of the English...oh yeah...and mentioning the physical description of every politician. And, that Polk had violent diarrhea. Gotta love APUSH.</p>
<p>I've done 5 chapters in my dual-enrollment Biology online course in less than a day (tests weren't online nor open book btw.. common misconceptions) with pretty good retention (97 A on test). It was a legit Biology text, heh. If any of y'all have taken a ton of online courses (and I'm at 10+ heh) you'll know how to manage your time well! I'm surprised there aren't more with outstanding numbers, like "Oh I read my Economics text in 15 hours" heh.</p>
<p>I could never read more than a chapter of History per day.. bleh.</p>
<p>i do a chapter of US history (w/ hw, chapter review, etc. all that assigned crap) every ~3-4 hours, and a chapter of math every 4-5 hours. 20 US hist chapters in my book and 12 math.</p>
<p>for this one college course i have, w/ loads of information in each paragraph, about 3 hours a chapter w/ good notes (21 chaps in book, covering 5,000 BC to 2005).. but like, 231 hours when i'm not motivated to learn about portugese trade routes and crap.</p>
<p>if you put your mind to it, you can get a lotttttt of studying done - more than you ever though possible.</p>
<p>I studied my Bock, Delleman, De Veaux Statistics textbook for 16 hours straight and got through about 9 chapters feeling secure about the material. Trigonometry takes me longer for some reason(studied for five hours and only got through one chapter.)</p>
<p>If it's review, I can do a full textbook in a day. This is mainly because I tend to know what I need to do, and I don't spend much time on stuff I'm comfortable with already.</p>
<p>If it's learning it for the first time, well... I've never tried that, so I wouldn't know. :P</p>