How much time did you spend reading in College on a weekly basis?
 

I am in a rather strenuous business program that is accelerated, and I have found some of the classes to be challenging due to the amount of information covered in 5 weeks. I have one 4 hour class per week and a ton of homework. I am taking what they call a "weighted" economics class, it is considered an economics class that is seen in the Masters program (traditional setting). It is balls to the wall, and I have found myself spending 10-15 hours a week reading and covering the lessons in our book. Mix that with working 55-60 hours a week, it is pretty rough.

I know some of you have some decorated degrees, what kind of book time did you see while you were in school? Mind you, I only take one class at a time.

I didn't do a lot of heavy reading until I got into Grad School. I don't recall how much time I spent, but I do recall having a book in my hand during most of my awake free hours. Mind you, I was working full time while getting my MBA

I was too busy studying for my valedictorian final to do very much reading.

I don't think reading had been invented yet when i was in college.

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Respect!

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Most college professors that teach less scientific/mathematics based courses will tell you that you should be reading 3 yours for every hour you spend in class. So if you have a 3 hour course, you're talking about 9 hours for that class. In a standard 15 hour semester, your college professors would tell you that you're doing another 45 hours of reading outside of class.

So really, your 10-15 hours/wk estimate sounds about right. A 4 hour class would generate about 12 hours of outside effort if you listen to the standard college professor.

I didn't know many people that actually did that - but the ones that did would absolutely kick the hell out of every course they were in.

Actually, I rarely read, even in grad school. I hated reading so I just didn't do it. I didn't mind doing assignments, but reading just put me to sleep right away (and it still does).

Undergrad was computer science, so there wasn't a lot of real "reading" for that (there was plenty of other work though). The normal core type classes were all easy so I'd just take good notes in class and not bother with reading outside. I took all of my English/Lit classes in high school so all of that was out of the way.

Even when I got my MBA there wasn't a ton of reading. I had a lot of work to do that was associated with various projects that required reading, but it wasn't just reading for reading's sake. I was scanning or looking for something, so it was tolerable to me. Here and there we'd have to read a 10 to 20 page case study or something, but it wasn't a big deal.

So, in conclusion, I almost never read textbooks in 7 years of college.

Yeah, they told me that too...and I didn't do it and I still got decent grades. I probably would have been a badass if I actually would have read.

When I was in Grad. School, taking 6 hours at a time, I would read probably 30-40 hours a week. Literally. I was an English Major, though, and I was reading, on average, 2 novels a week, a Shakespearean play, and assorted pieces of scholarly criticism.

Luckily, I was also teaching Freshman Composition, so that was my only job.

Grad school's a different creature.

I did do 40+ hours/wk worth of outside studying in law school. That was mostly out of fear, though. With that devil Socratic method, nobody wanted to be the poor soul that hadn't read the case assignments one morning and got called on. You mostly spent 50 minutes being embarrassed in front of 100 Type A personalities.

No thanks, I'll go ahead and skim some cases...

I don't know exactly, but I was in the library for several hours each day. My campus was like a 15 minute drive from my house so between classes I'd sit in the library and read. At least 2 hours a day, I guess.

In my 5 years in college I probably read a total of 20 hours. Now that I am getting ready to work on my masters it might be a whole nother story.

I found that the best workers in life are the multi-taskers. You know, the ones that can do all their activities and still get B's. The A students will eventually work for the B and C students.

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Reading can be a chore if it's assigned to you, especially in a distracting world. Two good methods: if you can get audio, listen on headphones while you read; or, schukle. My theory for the schuklen is that after so long reading the Torah, a rabbi told his students to move while they read. The blood circulation helped, and it became a method.

I'm taking a Astronomy class at Duke online and its 6-7 hours of reading and 4 hours of lectures plus 2 hours of testing a week. 3 hour credit class.

If it's a business degree, it depends on what you're studying. If it's finance and accounting, then practice is essential. If it's a management or strategy class, I found it a lot more valuable to do discussion groups.

And I agree... I definitely put a lot more time in grad school than undergrad, and I regret that. You're paying for your education and it makes a big difference in undergrad if you have a good GPA.

Not enough.

I actually read a lot less in medical school than I did in undergrad. It's a function of too much material, not enough time, recorded lectures, and a lot of helpful learning tools. The days of sitting down and reading a book for medical students are over, and those that try that struggle to adjust. Those that succeed utilize the limitless resources provided by schools.

Probably read about 15-20 hours a week in graduate school, much more so around exam time, plus extra time doing assignments, prepping for treatment sessions and doing research.

I really only read a little bit around test time in undergrad. You can get perfectly good grades just paying attention in class and taking a few notes to get A's in many undergraduate classes, besides many of the science classes.

Now that I am out of school, I only read magazines because my attention span for reading is shot!

More than Clark.

Eye di'dnnt does ane reding or writng/Gerald Powe

Hour or two a week.

0.0.. as soon as I found out the teachers could care less if you showed up to class ...

hence the reason I joined the service!

You couldn't figure out which professors used lightning strike, and which ones used rolling boulder?

I barely cracked a book in undergrad... Right or wrong, I took my associates and BS and run from the recruiters like my life depended on it.

Burnt the **** out, I was.

as little as possible

The thing that works for me now is reading the chapter prior to the lecture then I take as detailed notes as possible during lectures(I try verbatim as much as possible), rewrite my notes on word(using my words not the professor) grouped between tests, and daily I reread the notes 3 or 4 times.

This has to be a joke...

I have never seen anyone study this thoroughly in my academic career, and there are some neurotic ****s in medical school. Wow, if it works man, by all means... But wow.

I was an art/advertising major. The only thing I read was the price tag under the beer I was buying.

Reading? That must be why I didn't go to college.

30 minutes to an hour to read a chapter(approximately 2 a week). 15 minutes per class day to rewrite notes (45 min a week). Reading 3 times a day (15 minutes a day, hour 45 a week)

4.5 hours a week for a 3 credit hour class is unreasonable?

It is working and sounds a lot more than what it is. I have to break it up in small reviews or can't remember crap.

This initial post made it seem like each thing would take longer. My bad. And like I said, if it works, do it. Everybody has different ways of learning and performing well on tests.

As for me, I crammed a lot in undergrad. Once you get into the big boy leagues, you have to study daily, and develop new ways of staying actively engaged (like the ones you described). That will help you if you ever start thinking about grad school.

I've got to go to grad school. Be it phd or masters, haven't made up my mind yet.

Good call and good luck.

Yeah, **** that. Unless it's grad school I don't see the point.

Got to get the grades. Scholarships, grad school, etc depend on it.

Count on it.