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How many periods/classes does your school have per day?

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Joseph41:
In Year 7-8, my school had six periods. From memory, two before recess, then two between recess and lunch, and two after lunch. Double periods were pretty common. Like, double PE, for example - it sucks just having single PE, because each class was only ~50 minutes or something, and quite a chunk of that was spent waiting for people to get changed.

From Year 9 (I think) onward, it changed to four periods per day. The reason for the change? Honestly I have no idea - it just happened. It meant that there were no double periods, because each period was now ~70 minutes or so. I preferred it this way tbh. There were fewer things to think about per day, and you less time was spent shuffling around between classes and stuff. I can't remember how it worked with recess and lunch, though - the middle section might have been the longest.

I was chatting with my friend the other day, and apparently my old school now has 12 periods per day. My reaction was basically "?!?!".

Anyway - got me thinking. How many classes do/did you have per day, and what's your preference?

sweetiepi:
My school had four periods in a day, rotating on a fortnighly timetable with 1x 78min, and 3x 71min periods aha!
It was great in the junior years as I had a variety of subjects and rarely any subject double-ups, however in year 11 and 12 I'd find that I was often timetabled to have methods and spesh (with the same teacher) back-to-back, which meant usually 142 mins+ of maths in one go and that would pretty much tire me out haha :').

I would've probably preferred more periods in a day, but I can't really complain about it, given that I often have multiple 50min lectures in a row now :))

katie,rinos:
In year 7, we had 8 40 minute periods. Then in year 9 it changed to 6 53 minute periods. Most double periods weren't too bad except for English.

fun_jirachi:
I have 5x60m periods which were great until this year started and I got hit double English on 1/3 of my cycle, simply because the school forces us to do English Extension. :'(

K888:
My school had 4 periods (75 minutes) when I was in year 7 then we transitioned to 6 periods (50 minutes) when I was in year 8. Tbh I much preferred the 6 periods per day because I found the 75 minute periods not that productive. You never really got much done in the last part of the period because everyone would lose their concentration (particularly in the period right before lunch) and all that. Yeah, I guess it probably meant more classes per day to think about in the earlier years if doubles were less frequent, but by year 12 I wasn't having more than 4 classes per day - there'd always be at least a double of something. I reckon I got more done in the doubles because I was prepared for the class being that long (100 minutes) and it only happened once a week or fortnight, plus I got to see my teachers more often so it was easier to ask for help or hand stuff in or whatever.

Not related to education as much, but the transition to 6 periods made assembly days so much more bearable. Assembly had to a) be shorter and b) our classes were shorter, so there wouldn't be a huuuuuge gap between the start of the day and recess or recess and lunch.

Not sure what their data was (or if it was just a coincidence), but my school said results improved a fair bit in the move to 6 periods a day.

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