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Just straight and honest answers,is this enough?

Hi.
I am a physical person more of a field person/Or 70% in person 30% academic

I am in my second year in A STEM subject (Bachelors Degee) part time.

Right now I am studying 15 hours per week including lectures.

I am trying to reach 20 hours-25 hours a week of studying.

Is this enough? A lot? Respectable?

Thankyou.

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Original post by Anonymous
Hi.
I am a physical person more of a field person/Or 70% in person 30% academic
I am in my second year in A STEM subject (Bachelors Degee) part time.
Right now I am studying 15 hours per week including lectures.
I am trying to reach 20 hours-25 hours a week of studying.
Is this enough? A lot? Respectable?
Thankyou.

A typical approach is that studying on a full-time degree programme should be treated like a full-time job -- i.e. you'd expect it to take 35-40 hours a week. That might be variable; some weeks you might do less, but at busy times you might do more.

For a part-time course that would vary accordingly. If you're studying at 50% intensity (compared to what a full-time student on that programme would be doing) then you'd expect to do 17.5-20 hours a week.

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Original post by martin7
A typical approach is that studying on a full-time degree programme should be treated like a full-time job -- i.e. you'd expect it to take 35-40 hours a week. That might be variable; some weeks you might do less, but at busy times you might do more.
For a part-time course that would vary accordingly. If you're studying at 50% intensity (compared to what a full-time student on that programme would be doing) then you'd expect to do 17.5-20 hours a week.


Thankyou! Excellent Martin!

I appreciate your comment.

Yes,I am studying Part time at about 50% intensity but my course is A Science and in STEM which is naturally hard.

You have helped considerably with the question as I was starting to get stressed about if I was understudying when I see these huge numbers out there like 30-40-60-80-110 hours a week.

I am doing 15 hours a week including lectures and will be trying to change the schedule to reach 20-22 hour per week.

Thanks again.

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Original post by martin7
A typical approach is that studying on a full-time degree programme should be treated like a full-time job -- i.e. you'd expect it to take 35-40 hours a week. That might be variable; some weeks you might do less, but at busy times you might do more.
For a part-time course that would vary accordingly. If you're studying at 50% intensity (compared to what a full-time student on that programme would be doing) then you'd expect to do 17.5-20 hours a week.


They say 15 hours a week approx per module.

So that would be 30 hours a week.Im definitely not reaching that and i don't think even other students or not all of them are either.

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