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In college the average student spends about 15 hours a week studying in class, i think.

how many hours do the average uni students study in class/ lecture/ whatever a week?

Reply 1

erk

14

Totally depends on the subject and uni. ie. arts students will have less than engineering students.

Reply 2

Poica

14

I do 5 hours contact time a week (History at York)

Reply 3

pikaboo

13

7 - 9 hours a week depending what week it is. But we have a lot of reading. :redface:

Reply 4

Piers-

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How much private study do those of you at Uni do?

Reply 5

white_haired_wizard

16

it inevitably varies substantially - science to the social sciences etc...
and with the latter, there isn't the time spent in labs and so forth, more out of formal structure independent work...i do an incredibly miniscule sum of work, due to personal circumstances @ the university i'm at, hence im not so happy where i am and what im doing and with who, thankfully last yr now, and realization that i may as well not have bothered doing my degree and done something i actually specialise in.

Hours vary considerably, formal and informal hours put in and so forth...

Reply 6

Arminius

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20-30 contact hours per week.

+ time doing private study outside of that.

= me very tired.

Reply 7

Apricot Fairy

16

Officially we're all supposed to do the same amount of work. Universities usually say 40 hours per week, i.e. you treat it as a 9-5 job. So if you have 6 contact hours per week, you're supposed to do 34 hours' private study per week, and if you have 25 contact hours per week, you're supposed to do 15 hours' private study per week. In reality, I don't think many people do. And for obvious reasons, people with very few contact hours are much more likely to go to all their classes. I have 6 hours per week and I go to pretty much everything. But then, if you divide my tuition fees by my number of contact hours, I'm paying a lot more for each class than science students, so it would be a waste of money not to go, and I have no early starts, so hangovers and late nights aren't usually a problem! Some of my friends who do science subjects miss most of their nine o'clocks, but each one of those lectures counts for less.

So there's really no way of telling how much work people do comparatively. At uni, it's totally up to you.

Reply 8

Poica

14

I usually do about 28 hours a week personal study.

Reply 9

Phonicsdude

19

12 hours contac time supposedly an additional 32 hours outside.
In practice 10 hours contact time plus :redface:

Reply 10

sexysax

14

Around 6 hours a week..

Reply 11

ZigZag

11

24 hours of contact time per week, and probably about 7 hours personal study. However, I do miss a few 9am starts here and there.

Reply 12

Angelil

19

I have 8 hours a week contact time.

Reply 13

Beelzebub

I have 8 1/2 hours contact time (5 1/2 for English, 3 for politics), plus about 25 hours private study (again leaning more towards English, although I'm getting the same no of credits for both)

Reply 14

Kittennffc

15

I'm in for 9 hours a week, and do the required reading for my lectures and seminars, as well as coursework preparation, addition reading around the suject, writing up my past notes and doing any 'homework' the tutors ask. This varies from week to week how much personal study I do, but my subject has a lot of extra reading (I do English)

I must say, I never miss a lecture or seminar, and didn't in my first year either, I'm such a geek :redface:

Reply 15

Tarts_n_Vicars

13

6 hours lectures + 3 hours seminars (which I rarely attend because they're rubbish) = allegedly 9 hours contact teaching.

As for personal study....again the handbook says about 30 hours but in reality...none until the day before an essay is due. Hasn't failed me so far on the coursework although I'll probably be eating my words during exams this week lol.

Reply 16

JackieS

11

I do around 25-30 hours a week of lectures plus about the same in personal study..........................

Reply 17

Dramatic Star

2

8 Hours on average. 2 hours for each module. That includes 1 hour lecture & 1 hour tutorial. Of course I sometimes go in to do presentations etc which is extra time.

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