The Idiot's Guide to University (FAQ)

[iEdd]

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Science would be 22-28 hours a week.

[babikakez]

Originally Posted by ^CoSMic DoRiS^^

You would have a pretty full timetable with those degrees. Dunno how many hours exactly but everyone I know doing a science related degree seems to be there like all day, every day. It depends how your labs and stuff are timetabled I guess, and how you organise it.

Yeah it really depends on how everything falls. I have a friend doing Biomedical Science and she's only got 3 days a week, but they are really cramped (her wednesday is 8.30am-9.30pm with two hours of breaks), but others have 5 days a week, slightly more relaxed.

[HailSatan]

HOW DO I DEAL WITH PEOPLE SEEING ME IN….*gasp*…THE SAME OUTFIT TWICE?

Oh noes?

[ValentinesM]

thanks for all the guides!
how hard do you have to work to get say, credit, distinction? how many hours at home?

[iEdd]

A lot less than band 6s in the HSC, that's for sure. Solid study in swotvac (6 hours a day?) + all the days before exams got me 2 HDs and 2 Ds last semester in engineering. As for day to day study throughout semester, as long as you can do everything on all the compulsory assignments, that's about it. (It's a good idea to do optional worksheets and textbook problems to grasp harder concepts though.)

It varies a LOT depending on type of person and the degree. What clicks for someone else, might not necessarily make sense to you and vise versa.

[-may-cat-]

Originally Posted by ValentinesM

thanks for all the guides!
how hard do you have to work to get say, credit, distinction? how many hours at home?

Depends on what you're doing tbh. I study history which means endless piles of readings, for every hour im at uni i do about 2-3 hours of work at home and i've been getting pretty good marks marks so far. I have found i have had to do a hell of a lot more work to maintain my marks at uni than when i was at highschool.