How do you guys study??

[midas_touch]

in the nude

[ninwa]

cramming

[Ilovemathsmeth]

I can't cram - I panic too much when I do.

[QuantumJG]

cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.

[m@tty]

cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.

Is this with all your subjects? Are there any which are less full on?

[ninwa]

I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that

[Cataclysmic]

I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that

Is this the practice classes/tutorials? Like 2 hours a week?
I can't imagine like 5 hours per subject, because that would be like 100 hours of work a week :S

I checked engineering and the suggested private study time is 6-7 hours per subject/week ( 4 subs, 24-28 hours  :uglystupid2: )

[QuantumJG]

cramming

lol

In uni with the pace of subjects you sort of have to cram.

Is this with all your subjects? Are there any which are less full on?

I "think" the UoM breadth subjects aren't as full on as normal uni subjects. With uni subjects though you will expect a much faster pace than VCE subjects. Calc 1 in UoM will try and teach students the important parts of Specialist maths in 14 weeks.

The fact is that you have lectures to give you all the information and then you must use that information to do study and understand concepts in that subject. So this extra pressure on you to be independent and the fact that lecturers have to go through the whole subject in 12-14 weeks will make the pace a lot faster.

I don't think there are many subjects which aren't "full on" - for law they expect 5 hours of work for every contact hour, and 3-4 hours for each arts subject contact hour - and they will go at a pace according to that

5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?

I think that we were told an hour to two hours per contact hour.   

[ninwa]

5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?

Only 3-4 hours a week, so that's 20 hours of study a week for each law subject

[QuantumJG]

5 hours per contact hour is pretty intense! How many contact hours do you have?

Only 3-4 hours a week, so that's 20 hours of study a week for each law subject

That is still a lot of time considering the average degree implies a uni student has 4 subjects per semester. That is 80 hours study per week!

[zzdfa]

Yes, double that of a full time job =s. That doesn't sound right.

[TrueLight]

yeah i think law is hardcore

those fat books u have to read and all those cases ewww

i would probably go insane

[ninwa]

Yes, double that of a full time job =s. That doesn't sound right.

It is right, only nobody actually follows it. Even the lecturers think it's ridiculous. But the courses go at that fast a pace - if you followed the reading guide you'd have easily ~100 pages to read per week per subject

[boysenberry]

A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?

[minilunchbox]

A friend of mind says for theory-based subjects (that requires a fair bit of reading) he pretty much reads the material out loud. Well, not loud really, just he just whispers the words and phrases. Out of curiostiy does anybody else do this? Or do most people just read quietly in their heads?

I tried doing that for my textbook/notes but somehow I adopt a pompous british accent so I end up laughing at myself and being distracted. Now I just read quietly in my head because even though I still sound equally ridiculous, I don't notice it as much.

I generally study by writing and then summarising and then writing and then a bit of reading and then more writing. But I write really fast with heaps of acronyms, some I forgot the meaning of, which makes my notes practically illegible so I rarely read over them.