Is 3rd year of uni really harder than second?

[Alex74]

Doing third year maths, and just pulled my first true all-nighter since arriving at uni in order to get a project finished by this morning.

Doesnt feel as much of a chore though, as I get to choose my courses..so really I've brought this upon myself

There should be a difficulty curve across the years at uni, as you progress through more advanced material. There are exceptions for degrees like medicine where you have some years that are more focused on learning a plethora of abstract facts and others that are more about practical experience. So I suppose it really depends on what you're doing

 

[nas]

Saying that its harder is abit of an exaggeration, its harder in a sense where the majority of the work you do will have to be done independently, in a nutshell, there is less 'spoonfeeding'... I'm in my final year and have found that when researching a topic, you are left to your own devices as opposed to being pointed in a certain direction. The magnitude of work is greater too as expected, the only way to 'do well' is to stay on top of it, its easy to put work off for a few days, but getting back up todate is hard once you're behind. I'm currently doing a Law degree (llb) which lots of people see as a subject that is 'hard' but as long as you do the required reading like any other subject you'll be fine.

 

[Energize]

Yes, if your doing a half decent course.

Could be argued that a course where the work load is spread so unequally across the years is badly organised.

 

[Gideon Lorr]

I'ved been told that my course is all about the second year: if you can keep up with the workload (compared to the first year) then the step up to final year will be a relatively small one.

 

[Morbius]

The third year is the hardest, but ultimately the most rewarding. In its defence, the second year is the most fun.

 

[FreeStream]

Could be argued that a course where the work load is spread so unequally across the years is badly organised.

Well I don't know about you but if I have 9-5 lectures pretty much every week every year they can't do much more about it?

 

[BlackCoat2k10]

I'm doing software engineering, the only difficult thing is managing 2 group projects that I am the leader of as we have several non fluently speaking english members.

Apart from this it is exactly the same as my second year, although I will assume that exams would be a tad more difficult but that is all.

 

[Energize]

Well I don't know about you but if I have 9-5 lectures pretty much every week every year they can't do much more about it?

Having 8 hours of lectures a day for the easy stuff that's worth 0% of the degree sounds pretty unequal to me.

 

[Froggeh]

as other posters have said, i didn't find the work much more difficult, but rather you'll be just a bit busier (i did mech eng)

 

[Feef]

Well, I spent my third year in china, so everything was significantly more difficult than back here But then, I'm on a four year course. Guess my final year would be the equivalent, and yes, I found it a significant step up in terms of workload, class hours, extra studies required and far more essays.

But then, I'm in scotland doing a languages course, and I appreciate that the setup is probably fairly different.

 

[skippy2421]

Well my third year is a lot harder (doing maths). I find where i'm a module down i have less lectures but there is so much more work involved with the stuff that i do now. I can't just churn it out last minute like i used to.