How many hours per week did you study at university?

Because I've had a gap year to self study things and the like, my level of commitment I feel for when I got into uni will be huge.

So, no matter the year I'm in, I hope I can put the hours in... I'll have to anyway, since it'll be CS/Maths. Having my mind blown because I couldn't be bothered to study doesn't sound good. :P
 
Generally I put in the time needed for coursework and final year project, but i've not started actually revising the content yet. My exams are all in early May, i'm planning on starting revision when i'm done with the project (which is a 60-credit module on it's own).

That's on an Electrical Engineering course.
 
Moses said:
I hate the exams... so, so much! I'm pretty bad when it comes to remembering tonnes and tonnes of cases, and when there's no notes/case lists allowed (even blank case lists), it makes it hard (for me!).
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Yeah, exams are made a lot easier if you are fortunate and have the ability to learn and recall information in great depth. One of my greater strengths is that I do have that ability, but you have to figure out ways to make it work. I have always created diagrams which I then convert to numerical code, so I can, for example, remember 200+ cases from a 7 digit figure.

I always remember one examiner see me jotting it down then drawing a series of circles and squares (part of my remembering mechanism) and him looking at me with a look of "... what on earrrrth?!" :o :D
 
Nitefly said:
Everyone I know who got a first on my undergraduate course certainly didn't waltz it - big efforts all round. I struggle to believe you could get a first with the level of efforts people are implying! I didn't manage one myself.
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My post wasn't meant to imply that I'd got a first or that it was likely on the amount of effort I'd put in - I knew perfectly well that even if I was capable of getting a first that the required effort for me to do so simply wasn't worth it for me which is what I mean about diminishing returns. I had a few mates who did get firsts at various subjects and while they were all at least reasonably bright the main linking factor was that they put in lots of extra work to ensure they got that classification - I didn't put in that much effort and I didn't get a first, seems fair enough to me.
 
Nitefly said:
Yeah, exams are made a lot easier if you are fortunate and have the ability to learn and recall information in great depth. One of my greater strengths is that I do have that ability, but you have to figure out ways to make it work. I have always created diagrams which I then convert to numerical code, so I can, for example, remember 200+ cases from a 7 digit figure.

I always remember one examiner see me jotting it down then drawing a series of circles and squares (part of my remembering mechanism) and him looking at me with a look of "... what on earrrrth?!" :o :D
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Just.. what the...! :p

I just read the course/look at the power points a couple of times and go from there... Never did get the whole revision technique!

On the other hand I used to love exams over coursework. Couple of days of light reading and I could splurge out a high mark. At A-Level I had to put in a lot more effort but still less than coursework. Each progressive year at undergrad I had to put in more effort and the final year I decided I liked coursework more than exams. Masters I despised the exams (first time I'd ever got actually nervous about an exam!) and loved the coursework. Go figure!
 
During my first year, I had eight hours per week. Four of lectures, four of seminars and I probably did the same again in my own time. This year is a bit of a joke, I am on an Erasmus placement in the south of France, but my grades here don't count for anything, and as such, I have become incredibly lazy. :o

During my final year, upon which one hundred per cent of my classification depends, I think thirty hours per week will be on the cards.
 
Gideon Lorr said:
Good marks in the first year of my course is the only way to get a placement after year 2. Anything less than a 2:1 and you can forget it. Plus I got £1000 for getting a first!
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Pfft I got a beer belly from mine.



In third year now, monging it badly. Need to step my game up.
 
Did Chinese at Edinburgh, I generally had 10-12 hours each week, and put in about the same myself for first and second year, with that going up hugely before exams and essay deadlines. Third year over in China we had 24 hours a week in uni, plus probably 2 hours a night at home too. 4th year I had less contact time, but spent a lot more of my own time working on dissertation, assignments, presentations and revision.

All seems easy compared to the CELTA I'm doing now, with 40 hours in school and about 20 hours at home per week :p
 
Im timetabled 22 hours a week, i probobly spend about 40 hours a week in uni total and probobly do about 15-20 hours at home

so probobly about 55-60 hours a week
 
This is my only concern about returning to University. I would really need to work part-time, and while it's obviously doable, it'll make things quite jampacked. Byebye, video games. :(
 
I'm the sort of person who nails a piece of work within 48hours of the deadline, although I may end up awake for all 48.
So it always seemed to everyone else that I done very little because I spent most of my time doing other things until deadlines started coming in.
 
Nymins said:
I'm doing Computing and Information Technology, but in First Year that, Computer Science and Business and Information Technology are all basically the same (think BIT does a different module, but CIT and CS are exactly the same in First Year).

Its pretty good. Computer Architecture is pretty tricky at the minute. I enjoy Programming, but quite a lot of people struggle with it. Its one of those things that you either 'get' quite quickly, or it takes awhile to get into the swing of things. Multimedia is fairly easy, although its annoying having to use Adobe Director, rather than Flash or even doing HTML instead (which I would much prefer to do).

Computer Architecture and the Intro to Computer Science (1st Semester) modules are really the only ones that you need to do reading for. They are much more theory based than Programming or Multimedia obviously. It's a course that I wouldn't do just because you like using computers, which seems to be the mentality of some people on the course. You need to have an interest of how and why they work etc. After a few weeks the amount of people on Facebook or playing Skyrim on their laptops in lectures is ridiculous.
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Thanks! :)

I'm definitely interested in CS, I program in my spare time. :p
 
I'm doing Mechanical Engineering at HND, alongside studying for an Engineering Officer Of the Watch certificate, and the word "ballbreaker" comes to mind. To go to degree level deserves a "motherofgod.jpg" in my humble opinion.
 
Amp34 said:
What makes you think that (fronting the cost)? If you haven't done a degree already you will get the same as 18 year olds (student loans, tuition fees) but will probably get maximum loans and various grants as well.
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I do have a degree already, I did one when I was 18-22, I had maximum student loan and I had all my tuition fees paid for me back then, although they were a hell of a lot less than they are now. Besides I am doing something else entirely now and said degree doesn't fit into my plans, for now anyway.
 
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6 x 20 credit modules at 2 hours each for a total of 12 hours. My first year was awesome - 4 modules / 8 hours of lectures between 8 am and 6 pm on a Monday (brain ouch!), and my last two on a Friday = 5 free days per week :D
 
I'm a 1st year engineer, and my contact hours at the moment are 20/week, but they were higher earlier in the year. I probably do about 10 hours a week of extra work (assignments, notes, problem sheets etc), but really need to do more - I feel very behind atm. I think I'd need to do about 30 hours extra work/week to feel on top of things.

Next year I've heard we have 30+ contact hours, and will definitely need to put in a lot more extra work as well (partly because it starts to count!). After chatting to older engineers, all I can say is that it sounds hardcore. Ah well, at least there are no girls in the lectures to distract me from the proper manly work of engineering.

Macky said:
I think I'll enjoy it as it sounds to be applied maths and physics. I'm doing maths, further maths, physics and chemistry at AS level at the moment. Tempted to drop further maths next year but if I keep it I know it would help so much in mech eng. Whereas chemistry wouldn't be of much use. Still a really well thought of A level but not as relevant to me.
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Yes, it is pretty much applied maths and physics... imo the best 3 A levels for preparation for engineering would be maths, further maths, and physics. Chemistry would be a well respected 4th A level with minimal relevance to the degree (that's how it seems so far at least), and I think DT also prepared me fairly well for the design side of things that we've done so far, but whether it's worth taking as an A level is up for debate.
 
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