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I don't find this true. There are subjects you can just ace without studying. Being in class is enough for those subjects. However, there are subjects I need to study for. I don't think the people here are that superficial.</p>
<p>Some people have to work harder for good grades than others. It's possible that there are some people who study very little yet do well.
I even knew someone in college (and typically getting good grades is tougher in college) who was an A student whose roommate claimed she'd never seen her study and didn't know how she managed to get those grades.
I personally had to study a lot to do well in high school, except in a few classes. I found it easy to get A's in French and Spanish with very little studying, but that was an exception.
I remember my junior year in high school, when taking a math analysis class that was supposed to be equivalent to precalculus. My friend and I were talking about how long it had taken us to do the previous night's assignment. Four hours for him, four and a half hours for me...
The teacher overheard and seemed disturbed because I guess it hadn't meant to take so long. But that was a typical amount of time for me to spend each evening studying and doing assignments for that one class.</p>
<p>I study a lot but I could probably get by with half the amount of time I spend doing it. I'm always afraid I will miss something. I have two engineering classes this semester that are loaded with forumlas and procedures. The prof doesn't narrow the stuff down for exams so I am forced to make sure I know every little thing as well as the next. For example, out of 10-15 topics only 3 will be tested on the final exam.</p>
<p>stephan hawking's baby universe book talked about this... those that work REALLY hard to get good grades are perceived as "gray man"</p>
<p>nice book...</p>
<p>Well, I've always been a bum as far I can remember. But I was voracious reader plus I had a near photographic memory, this basically kept me on top of any humanities courses but not too great in Math or Science unless I studied for them.
But as I am where I am now, I guess a time comes where you want to lead the pack and not merely be ahead of most people.</p>
<p>Study? What is this... study?</p>
<p>it's like cigarettes....you wanna quit...you can't...and it slowly kills you :)</p>
<p>but yes..i totally feel ya on the overstudyin thing....i studied about 150 pages of notes today...and my final only had stuff from about 20 of em on it.</p>
<p>but you know what sucks more?...when you're like "i got this" and then you get in there and you get to one question and realize you're about to get raped by it</p>
<p>Or this: You come out of the test completely confused and then your mind clears a little and you realize how to do many problems that you couldn't get.</p>
<p>Or this: You accidently mark the wrong one even tho you did the math right like 109 kJ instead of 109 J. Not much different looking on the test (except about 4 whole points).</p>
<p>or you forget the PI on the rotation volume thing for calc even though u had it in the first integral setup</p>
<p>or forget any of the numbers in front of the integral</p>
<p>or u forgot the reaction mechanism of nucleophilic sunstitution....</p>
<p>or the formula of centripetal force!! :eek:</p>
<p>or you forget how to calculate the pH of a titrated solution of a weak acid and a strong base at equivalence point when you knew how to do it a few hours ago</p>
<p>oh, i never got the hang of those stupid calculations...in my A-levels i left the compulsory ques on buffer solutions and ph calculation blank... :D</p>
<p>it's not that hard neha!...it just takes a lil bitta practice! :)...it's weird the first few times you do it, but after about 3-5 problems it sets in</p>
<p>my mind just went totally blank</p>
<p>Just some words of wisdom here for all you High School seniors. Be prepared next year! I've got many friends who went off to college (I graduated in 03, and I went to a CC) who never studied in High School, and who tried the same thing when they reached universities... Many of them were quickly placed onto academic probation... So be careful with your habits next year, the things that pass in HS may not in college.</p>
<p>ya man....after 2 yrs of slackin with my frenz, i have ambitious plans for college!!! hopefully soem will coem true!! :)</p>
<p>Ppl make college out to be soooo hard...it's really not all that bad :p.....just think about it this way....your first 3 semesters are like taking 6 AP classes that are just a tad bit harder than your highschools average AP class....you learn how you study the best and it's not all that bad</p>
<p>Wow I totally would not look at it that way. My classes were hard. Damn hard. There is comparision to high school. I feel like I just skipped a few years. But my classes that I'm taking are known to be the hardest freshmen courses in the college so maybe it's just me then. And don't hold on to your procrastination to tightly b/c that not studying feeling will not go away magically. I'm not joking. You will feel like it is just another high school test. Even when you know it won't be. It takes time.</p>
<p>A lot of people can do this, because in many non honors and AP classes, the material is really easy and straightforward, and people who are "naturally smart" who take APs and honors courses can do these because a lot of the stuff is common sense, and some of the books are very easy to read, and the teachers just give questions straight from the book.....</p>
<p>Also, people are taking APs and honors, and so the class might have gone over some of the material that they are taking in another course, so they already know a lot of the stuff......</p>
<p>For example, I took AP history last year, but decided to take regular govt, this year, and i have not had to study for a test all year, mostly because of the backround i got in AP history, and the fact that i remember all the stuff I do on my homework, and many of the questions on the tests are common sense to me, while they may be quite difficult for another person who isn't quite as good on that particular subject....</p>
<p>i thought we were talkin bout college lol</p>
<p>highschools a winger!....only class i really studied for was AP gov't and Anatomy and Physiology and that was limited to reading the chapter</p>