How hard is university work?

I found the work to be different- and far more time consuming, than most A-Level work rather than necessarily harder, this was doing International Relations. History coursework at A-Level was an exception but that aside, most A-Level work I could bash out in a couple of hours. Where uni coursework was concerned however my first essay took me a week to read for and a week to write. Once I got the hang of things I did get quicker- but still only down to a week for the whole thing unless I didn't have that amount of time left before the deadline (usually when I had multiple deadlines at once).

Ok so you found the workload for coursework was very time consuming but you didn't really find it that more difficult.

That makes sense I guess since essays are probably going to have be longer than a couple of pages which they tended to be at A level.

Regarding BAs:

It all comes down to how much you want to do the work. If you are engaged in the topic and read around it for pleasure then you will find it challenging (it's higher education) but completely doable. If you have trouble organising your time, fail to keep track of which work is required for when, and generally have a loose connection to your course, then you will find it not just hard but impossible to get a first and probably a two-one.

I speak from experience, as someone who willy-ed around during his first year and subsequently decided to leave after failing my first year.

It is work: all you have to do is focus and put in the hours. If you fall behind you can catch up but you will have to make sacrifices in other areas of your life. If you have a learning difficulty then your uni should assist you, so really there is no reason to "fail" should you put in a considerable amount of effort.

Yeah that is something I am worried about because I hate reading books. I have two problems with books 1 I don't find them very engaging and prefer to look things up online which is generally quicker but obviously tends to be more inaccurate but also 2 I get ill reading books for a long period of time (like over 30mins) and it messes with my head and I get very sleepy because of it.

If I could get audio versions or could get them up electronically then I should be fine or if the books are of a decent size as I think it is the size of the text that makes me feel sick when reading for too long.

I don't feel I am the type of person to leave his school work to the last minute, I am more likely to neglect socialising, and other things especially since I am interested/passionate about the subject I am taking.

Anyone know how challenging a degree in teaching is...?

The difficulty of a degree depends on what degree you take and which university you go too. Having done law at a Russell group university, I knew that my degree was harder than my friends who did the same degree at a less prestigious university.


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For me uni is harder and it's not cause I study two subjects, but i I think it's because of the content and not the subject. For instance, I find English not interesting but it takes up a lot of time to read your set texts then read critical theories and then read context and etc so it takes a longer time. I think Humanities' courses are harder in terms of content and context because there's a lot to process.

I may be ignorant but for maths or physics there's equations but for English there's essays to read, to reread, to write and etc and Ive seen people study BSc and they don't have to read rtwice as much as I do, but then again, they have labs and etc.

The one thing I did find hard was the amount of essays I was given. I was used to it as 2/3 A-levels were c/w so deadlines weren't an issue. But at uni, they ask you to do 3 or 4 3000 worded essays that all have to be handed in on the same week so you have to plan your time very effectively. I also found it hard "switching" from English to History when I had to. But Im speaking for a joints honours point of view.

Is writing essays just finding info and paraphrasing other people's work with a reference list at the end?