just how hard IS oxford/cambridge really?

can someone clear this up please? Obviously some courses are harder than others, law, physics, and PPE I have been told but what is the reality with these subjects? I would have thought that with all that pressue, all those lectures and the 2 essays a week there'd be no time for anything else...do people at oxford have any spare time??

cheers

Reply 1

DamianHolt

nero076

A lot of people have been asking this in various threads, can someone with experience of the places clear this up please? Obviously some courses are harder than others, law, physics, and particularly PPE I have been told but what is the reality with these subjects? I would have thought that with all that pressue, all those lectures and the 2 essays a week there'd be no time for anything else...do people at oxford have any spare time??

thanks.

in third year there's no time for anything else, it's just work all day every day. first and second year aren't so bad except at exam time in first year.

Reply 2

zero101

E+M is the hardest at ox

Reply 3

AT82

Blimey 2 essays I a week I thought I had it bad.

I probably do about 20-30 hours a week outside of lectures. So thats about 40 hours a week.

Reply 4

AT82

forgot to mention I am not at Oxbridge.

Reply 5

emma_

Yey, the huge bonus about being rejected from Oxford (for Econ and Man) is that I know that I can enjoy the next 3 years of my life and not be completely swamped with work, :smile:

Reply 6

AT82

emma_

Yey, the huge bonus about being rejected from Oxford (for Econ and Man) is that I know that I can enjoy the next 3 years of my life and not be completely swamped with work, :smile:

Not really, it depends on which university you go too, Oxbridge probably has more work involved than average but you get a lot of work to do on any good degree.

My university handbook from Salford suggest 72 hours a week which quite frankly is a joke!!

Just enjoy the first year, work hard but don't let work run your life, then in the second and third year devote your life to your degree. You can do all the partying you want after you graduate and are earning a fat sum.