How many hours of class and studying do you do to maintain your gpa?

[jinny1]

WAM is 95 (it's 94.5 but we will pretend) and I study eight to nine hours per day most days outside of class. My course is Science, I do not have a major yet but all my classes are Biological Science.

Competitive lyf brah.

Will be interested to see work comparison this semester at Penn.

What!?! you really study 8-9 hours on most days!?? :S

I do that over a month and i'm in the same course as u lol :/

[sluu001]

Ooh, you looking at a semerster at UPenn? Really looking at spending a semester there too. What were the pre-reqs for application? Asides from the ridiculously high WAM requirement? (Ughhh 85)

[JinXi]

Mines 1-2 hours per week from week 1-12 aside assignments/reports. I do go to lectures though and have 30 contact hours (Had 33 last semester)

Then 121 hours during 5 days of swotvac. Having a low HD WAM atm. Expecting it to drop this semester for being a total fail in maths and physics atm...

[Hancock]

Average mark is 94.5 ATM. Do around about 3-4 hours a day, on top of tutoring as a job and orchestra/production volunteering. If you keep up with the lectures and do the required work, you should be fine.

[simpak]

What!?! you really study 8-9 hours on most days!?? :S

I do that over a month and i'm in the same course as u lol :/

1. You're in first year.
2. I don't take breadth.
3. It depends on how intent you are on getting +90 in everything
4. I enjoy studying!

But yes it is truth.

Ooh, you looking at a semerster at UPenn? Really looking at spending a semester there too. What were the pre-reqs for application? Asides from the ridiculously high WAM requirement? (Ughhh 85)

Pretty much just the high average, when I applied mine was 92. I'm pretty sure for last semester the CAS requirement dropped to 80 but I could be wrong - I think it is always higher for Sem 1 exchange than Sem 2 exchange. You just have to go through their whole silly application process after UoM nominates you but you're pretty much guaranteed your spot from there on in. When are you thinking of going?

[EvangelionZeta]

just curious to see how much a standard 4 subjects a semester 8 a year timetable looks, also tell me what course & majors youre doing cos im sure its different amongst the different degrees

My friend is doing 4 subjects this semester. Each of her subjects has one lecture and one tutorial. She doesn't need to attend her lectures. Her tutorial attendance is generally worth 10-15% of her unit mark.

She doesn't attend uni at all. She can still get HDs.

Contact hours? 0 Hours.

Course? Arts. (Nothing against Arts - not saying this to bag Arts students but just as a point of comparison).

For me, I have around 12 hours of lectures and 11 hours of tutorials/pracs + CBL per week, but I need to attend 80% of my pracs/tutes. So I have to go to them. I don't usually go to lectures - just do the reading or watch them online. So personally I have around 11 contact hours.

Which uni is she at and what are her courses? At ANU they barely ever hand out marks over 85, even to top students; if you don't do work and don't go to class, you're fucked.

[TrueTears]

just curious to see how much a standard 4 subjects a semester 8 a year timetable looks, also tell me what course & majors youre doing cos im sure its different amongst the different degrees

Currently sitting on a of GPA 3.958 and WAM of 96.658. I do nothing but eat, sleep and study, so I guess around 9-10 hours per day (and I normally sleep 10-11 hours per day, sleep is essential). Although the reason I spend so much time studying is because I don't attend lectures and so on, self studying suits me better. If I were to go to lectures, my average study time per day would decrease dramatically.

Course: Bcom/Bsc
Majors: Finance, Actuarial Studies, Econometrics and business statistics, Pure Mathematics

[lilaznkev1n]

For me I have 12 contact hours per week and usually and do like 10 hours of private study per week
So far 3 H1s and a H2B for a stupid breadth

[sluu001]

What!?! you really study 8-9 hours on most days!?? :S

I do that over a month and i'm in the same course as u lol :/

1. You're in first year.
2. I don't take breadth.
3. It depends on how intent you are on getting +90 in everything
4. I enjoy studying!

But yes it is truth.

Ooh, you looking at a semerster at UPenn? Really looking at spending a semester there too. What were the pre-reqs for application? Asides from the ridiculously high WAM requirement? (Ughhh 85)

Pretty much just the high average, when I applied mine was 92. I'm pretty sure for last semester the CAS requirement dropped to 80 but I could be wrong - I think it is always higher for Sem 1 exchange than Sem 2 exchange. You just have to go through their whole silly application process after UoM nominates you but you're pretty much guaranteed your spot from there on in. When are you thinking of going?

Most likely sem 1 next yr if i can scrape 1 hd from either macro 2 or econometrics (looking at the wharton bus. School - which is apparently highly selective in students they choose for exchange). -sigh-

[simpak]

Oh yeah for Wharton it's recommended you only try if you have an average over 90, or so they told us at our info session last semester. I'm fairly sure they're only taking one student this year, but you can take Wharton classes even if you're a CAS student. Not that it's very helpful to you, considering you are a commerce student so you'd have to take your whole load in Wharton.

Good luck!

[jinny1]

Sorry but what does WAM stand for??

[sluu001]

Crap, no way i can bump my average up to 90 in one semster. Oh well, guess it's back to the drawing board.

[lilaznkev1n]

Sorry but what does WAM stand for??

ill have a wild guess and say weighted average mark

[Starlight]

What!?! you really study 8-9 hours on most days!?? :S

I do that over a month and i'm in the same course as u lol :/

1. You're in first year.
2. I don't take breadth.
3. It depends on how intent you are on getting +90 in everything
4. I enjoy studying!

But yes it is truth.

Ooh, you looking at a semerster at UPenn? Really looking at spending a semester there too. What were the pre-reqs for application? Asides from the ridiculously high WAM requirement? (Ughhh 85)

Pretty much just the high average, when I applied mine was 92. I'm pretty sure for last semester the CAS requirement dropped to 80 but I could be wrong - I think it is always higher for Sem 1 exchange than Sem 2 exchange. You just have to go through their whole silly application process after UoM nominates you but you're pretty much guaranteed your spot from there on in. When are you thinking of going?

Do you take advantage of the libraries?

[TrueTears]

Sorry but what does WAM stand for??

ill have a wild guess and say weighted average mark

Yup Weighted Average Mark, some higher level units may get more weighting on their marks, hence the name