teendoc Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hi, I was wondering if everyone could post the number of hours they study a week, (or per day) and what your average is. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 About 5-6 hours a day on average, 6 days a week. I have no class time, though, cuz I'm taking all distance ed courses this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vallinar Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 first year went to almost every lecture and studied on avg 2-3 hours/day 5-6 days/week. Fourth year go to maybe 20% of lectures and study 2-3 hours/week. Yes i'm slacking huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I'm a chronic class skipper. I like to study on my own, so the hours I miss lectures with go instead to studying the material myself. It's more effective for me this way. I make sure I make time everyday to study and to relax a bit - when exams are a while away, I make sure to make the most of it. Then as things get nearer to exams, studying starts to take over your life for a bit. It's just important to find a balance between ensuring you know the material for each of your courses well enough - but not excessively to the point you don't have a life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip_138 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I'm the opposite of law (in that i'm not a complete idiot) I go to class and listen/pay attention a lot, so i don't take down as much notes and i don't tend to read my text a lot (altho this is dependent on the way the prof tests us). Generally i'll spend 0-5 hours/test, whatever it takes for an assignment (generally a couple hours) and if its a killer exam, maybe a couple days (probably around 10ish hours) for something like biochem. Its also fairly subject dependent, maths and calculation stuff i rarely study at all, but bio stuff needs memorization, so that could take a bit of time. Everyone's different, its more just finding out what works for you when you enter uni. Remember prof's don't care how you learn the info, just as long as you know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I'm the opposite of law (in that i'm not a complete idiot) lol, son, I'm only tough on you because it will help you in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 i try to "study" a couple hrs most days, but not very efficiently...like most nights i'll be reading, and every 15 mins, i'll be distracted by things like p101, email, food , googling, talking with my mom or e-friends, admiring myself in the mirror, etc lol...all this means that i fall behind quite often...sometimes i catch up on weekends, but some courses i never catch up until a few days before midterm or final...like for this psyc course, i've only read 1/7 chapters and have barely paid attention in lecture, but i have 4 days before the final to read notes & chapters so that means i'll be studying 4 days nonstop (eg 10am--2am) to catch up...and this has been standard procedure for a while now. edit: but i should say, if u want to retain info over long term, this method doesn't work very well...i do this with courses where i don't really care about learning/retaining all that much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jectin Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I study 10 hours a week on average but amp it up to 30 or so the week before a midterm/exam. My average is P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I wish I was in a program where my average could be P lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Does he also beg you to be his friend? He does that with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrenaline Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Just curious, are you in Law, The Law? You can so tell I'm a newbie. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Just curious, are you in Law, The Law? You can so tell I'm a newbie. lol no, he's just a failure with a superiority complex...u've just made his day, he's gonna be so touched that ur first post is about him. welcome on board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlatan Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 I wish I was in a program where my average could be P lol That happens to everyone (who don't end up dropping out) in med school lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NLengr Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 That happens to everyone (who don't end up dropping out) in med school lol. P=MD is the rule I live by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Just curious, are you in Law, The Law? You can so tell I'm a newbie. lol If I had a dime everytime I've been asked that... (who invented this saying anyway) welcome to p101 =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip_138 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 And you beg me for notes when you don't have them. I only ask for them when i miss a class (lol or skip, which i'm starting to do a lot more lately) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 If I had a dime everytime I've been asked that... (who invented this saying anyway) welcome to p101 =) "Dime..." Ha, ha! I love American slang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hi, I was wondering if everyone could post the number of hours they study a week, (or per day) and what your average is. Thanks in undergrad i studied the night before the exam, for each exam. 8-12 hrs max per exam, sometimes less depending on the course. that would average out to less than 5 hrs/week i guess (full course load). and my GPA was 3.82 overall, 3.92 excluding first year. i probably could've done better if i had better studying habits...but think of all the fun time that would've been ruined! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 in undergrad i studied the night before the exam, for each exam. 8-12 hrs max per exam, sometimes less depending on the course. that would average out to less than 5 hrs/week i guess (full course load). and my GPA was 3.82 overall, 3.92 excluding first year. i probably could've done better if i had better studying habits...but think of all the fun time that would've been ruined! Yeah, I could never do that lol. I need to study consistently (except for some courses where I just cram it), but for more difficult courses... I do my best to stay caught up in the material and review a bit every now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 imagine starting to study for a biochem course where u need to know 8378785477458734 details the night before *dies* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teendoc Posted December 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hmm. It really depends on what you're studying. I'd say spend as long as you need to understand the material. No use beating your head against your textbook if you're not going to get it. At the same time, you still have to spend time studying every day (if you're nerdy like me). I'd say every night I'd spend 2hr studying (I'm not in pre-med anymore, so my working load has dropped considerably) and probably an hour reading journals or scientific magazines. And I'd probably spend 2-3hr working on assignments that type of thing. In my pre-med, I guess I would have spent about 5hr studying a night + 2hr doing assignments on average (I have some pretty slack days ). Judging from your username, are you still in high school? In high school I spent about 2hr per class per night (I was a little brown-nosing keener in high school! HAHA! Didn't get much sleep at all, that's for sure...) Just remember it's HOW you study not how LONG you study for. 5 hours a night!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 5 hours a night!! LOL Yeah, I don't think that's average. I usually totaled about 10hrs of school related activities per day, counting time in class, time studying & time doing assignments, during weekdays. Weekends was less because I had other things to do. I would say that's still my schedule now that I'm in med, although I expect it to change dramatically during clerkship. Obviously this is a non-exam time schedule, during exams it changes dramatically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 imagine starting to study for a biochem course where u need to know 8378785477458734 details the night before *dies* LOL....i did it worked out fine for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 LOL....i did it worked out fine for me! LOL, Madz you're insane. I would fail miserably if I studied biochem the night before. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citan Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Me too. I'm too dumb to start studying the night prior to an exam...well, maybe Spanish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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