<p>"For every hour of class you should spend x hours outside of class studying." What is x in the case of college?</p>
<p>2 to 3 (per credit) is normal</p>
<p>Oh god, so if my chemistry class meets for ~10 hours a week I’ll have 25 hours of work outside? ugh</p>
<p>im sorry i meant per credit, so if you have 15 credits you should be doing 30-45. or 45-60 academic hours total.</p>
<p>your chemistry class will never meet for 10 hours a week unless its a lab or a summer class and you can disregard the guideline for labs. But for lectures and non-lab classes you should be spending 2 hours studying for every hour you’re in class. If your class meets 10 hours a week because it’s a summer class trying to jam one semester into a month then heck yes you should be doing 25 hours of studying a week, that’s why you don’t take too many summer classes at the same time.</p>
<p>I keep hearing that you should multiply the number of credit hours you’re taking by 3. I’ll be a freshman this fall, so I don’t have any first hand experience, but that formula doesn’t seem like it can be right. The average student takes about fifteen hours a semester. I can’t believe that they study 45 hours a week or that that’s even necessary. Does it not sound strange to anyone else that you need to study 6+ hours every day to do well?</p>
<p>Well, it may not work out quite that way; but some people probably do spend that amount of time studying/doing homework. This is not high school anymore.
EDIT: also note that 45 is the upper extreme… for most people it’s probably closer to 30 unless they are really struggling with their major.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reponses guys! Does studying include homework or not?</p>
<p>yes the 30-45 include everything (hw, papers, reading). And as Sithis said 45 is the upper extreme and some weeks will be more than others of course.</p>
<p>Honestly though, there’s not much sense in trying to predict any of this, unless you have a job and haven’t signed up for classes yet and need to figure out an approximation of what you can handle. Beyond that, you will figure out what you need to do to learn the material and get your homework done when you go to college. For me, I don’t say “Hmm, well I’ve only studied for 2 hours today and need to study for 3 more” or “I’ve studied for 5 hours already, I’m just going to stop and not finish my lab report.” If I end up staying up until 2 am doing homework one day and have almost no studying to do another day, that’s just the way it is. You do what you need to do to get the grades you want.</p>
<p>Nice advice! You peeps are so smart. Cheers to college!</p>
<p>Isn’t studying relative to the student? </p>
<p>Some people can learn in a hour what takes others four. Same for doing homework, writing papers, etc. It just depends.</p>
<p>You study as much as you need to get the grade that you want.</p>
<p>Why does the title of this thread end with the word “again”?</p>
<p>Anyway. I find whatever guideline people usually tell me about the ratio of in class time to out of class study time is usually skewed and tells you to study more than anyone i know ever chooses to study</p>
<p>“Why does the title of this thread end with the word ‘again’?”</p>
<p>Clearly because everyone on this forum told him the answer to his question at one point, and he forgot what we said.</p>
<p>Ignore guidelines. I have had anywhere from 0 hours to 20 hours of work per week for 3 to 4-credit classes. I have had semesters where 12 credits was a challenge and at other times 20 credits didn’t seem too bad.</p>
<p>Some of the responses in here are ridiculous. It depends on the class, not the amount of credit hours. You’ll have some classs that requires zero outside work, and you’ll have classes that require several hours of outside work. You’ll find it varies week to week and class to class. There is no set formula. What I can tell you is, in a 15 credit hour schedule, I come nowhere near studying 30-40 hours in a week. That comes to about 5 hours a day. LOL. You’ve gotta be kidding me.</p>
<p>CC cracks me up sometimes.</p>
<p>^maybe because you’re at Florida State :)</p>
<p>But yeah, like most people said, studying is as much time as you need to learn the material. But 20-30 hours a week is usually a good guideline for most people.</p>
<p>Indeed that could be the truth. I forgot Clemson was the Harvard of South Carolina. Please excuse me.</p>
<p>“Oooh blah blah blah look at me I only study for 15 hours a week instead of 95.5 hours I must be so smart and have teh best major evar blah blah blah”</p>
<p>…j/k</p>
<p>at least we didn’t make the “Students Study The Least” list from the Princeton Review :p</p>
<p>I’m just kidding Matt haha</p>