SURVEY: Which are the hardest or easiest subjects to study at uni?

Please rate your course within a scale of 1-5 where 1 is easiest, and 5 is hardest.

Also state why it is hard or easy and how much time you generally spend studying it in your free time.

Example:

Engineering: 5
Reasons: Blah Blah and Blah
Avg Study time: Scale of 1-5, 1 is not much time, and 5 is most of my life. :eek:

Reply 1

captnibby1234

OP

1

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Reply 2

TheOneWho

12

Surely that would depend on a person's academic strengths. Someone with a good maths ability is probably going to find something like English literature or history fairly hard, whereas a historian would struggle with maths or physics. Obviously it's not as simplistic as that, but generally. Or it might just be down to the person's overall academic ability, I mean, I find my course a lot easier than some of my friends.

Reply 3

hobnob

14

How is this a survey? :confused:

Reply 4

Linweth

16

TheOneWho

Surely that would depend on a person's academic strengths. Someone with a good maths ability is probably going to find something like English literature or history fairly hard, whereas a historian would struggle with maths or physics. Obviously it's not as simplistic as that, but generally. Or it might just be down to the person's overall academic ability, I mean, I find my course a lot easier than some of my friends.

This is true... I'm a Historian and literally fail at Maths :'(

Reply 5

mart2306

12

Alcohol I'd say is the easiest subject to study. Some sort of education would be hardest.

Not everyone can handle either of them.

Reply 6

Kaykiie

15

Just to go on a tangent for a second here, a person who studies History is a Historian, yes?

So what would someone who studies English Language be?

Reply 7

Kasphlam

13

Kaykiie

Just to go on a tangent for a second here, a person who studies History is a Historian, yes?

So what would someone who studies English Language be?

An English linguist? :erm:

Reply 8

jakeuk1

6

This is kinda hard to analyse since everyone has different strengths and weaknesses both academically and physically - and there is also nothing for an individual to compare his/her course with. For example, someone who studies psychology won't know what it's like to study Geography, regardless of how difficult such a person finds their own course.

A census might even conclude that one particular degree course was "harder" than any other, yet some individuals might excel in a particular a subject to such a degree that would make such a census moot.

Reply 9

matt1991

What a joke of a thread and of a survey. Congratulations, OP, for presenting a chance for the academic bigots to come out of the woodwork!

Reply 10

TheSophist

14

Kaykiie

Just to go on a tangent for a second here, a person who studies History is a Historian, yes?

So what would someone who studies English Language be?

A writer

Reply 11

IWantSomeMushu

17

I don't think there is an easiest and hardest subject at University. Hmmm... I'm still wondering about that Surf Studies one though.

Reply 12

TheSophist

14

captnibby1234

Please rate your course within a scale of 1-5 where 1 is easiest, and 5 is hardest.

Also state why it is hard or easy and how much time you generally spend studying it in your free time.

Example:

Engineering: 5
Reasons: Blah Blah and Blah
Avg Study time: Scale of 1-5, 1 is not much time, and 5 is most of my life. :eek:

TBH I think this is a bit of a moot point, if your only there to do as little work as possible you should not be there studying for a degree in the first place!

Reply 13

bme

I agree with some earlier posters. What constitues "hard" is highly subjective and just because a course is hard in one uni wont mean it is hard in another uni though the content may be similar. I did a degree in biochemistry and found it insanely hard yet interesting. I found it hard because I struggle in closed exams yet excell in open essays/presentations and projects. This combined to give me an avaerage grading at the end and I personally felt that I could have got a higher grading in an arts degree due to the way my mind works. Though this is irrelevant as having a degree in a subject that is genereally acknowledged as being difficult from a respected university has meant that I have got onto a postgrad course with less than the required classification of degree.

Reply 14

ashy

17

Kaykiie

Just to go on a tangent for a second here, a person who studies History is a Historian, yes?

So what would someone who studies English Language be?

Unemployed :yep:

1 Media Studies

I'd think (ignorantly perhaps) that non arts subjects are easiest because it's either you know the answer or you don't unlike arts subjects where you have to expand, argue for/against your argument etc.

Reply 17

ggonex26

10

Some subjects have a lot more contact time but then those with little contact time have a fair bit of reading. It is difficult to judge, but from my experience sciences, medicine, maths and engineering courses seem to have a higher workload in terms of constant assignments, whereas english or history students seem to get the odd large essay.

Reply 18

ggonex26

10

Diaz89

I'd think (ignorantly perhaps) that non arts subjects are easiest because it's either you know the answer or you don't unlike arts subjects where you have to expand, argue for/against your argument etc.

This works in both ways, an English student can skim over a text noting a few key points and then blag an essay, whereas a maths student will score very poorly if they haven't practiced or taken time to understand the material.

Reply 19

cpj1987

15

It's entirely subjective. I could say how difficult I found my course, and how many contact hours I did; but I couldn't give it a ranking because that implies that I have the ability to compare it to how I'd cope on other courses, which I don't.
All I know is that the only courses I'd have been guaranteed to fail at university would've been drama and music.

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