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Creating a Weekly Study Schedule
- Enter in all your regularly schedule activities: classes, work, weekly obligations, etc.
- Cross out the times you are typically sleeping.
- Enter in time for commuting, grooming, meals.
- All unscheduled time that is left is possible study time. Of course this time competes with all you other life obligations.
- Set up planned study hours that make use of the times of day that you are the most intellectually alert. For most people, mornings and daylight hours are the best study times. Make use of time between classes to study. Plan time before discussion classes to review. Plan time after lecture classes to re-read your notes.
- Traditionally, students have been advised to set aside three hours of study time per week for each hour spent in class, or 9 hours a week outside of class for each 3 credit course. Most surveys of contemporary college students indicate they spend, on the average, about 2 hours a week studying per credit hour, but since this is an average, some students study more, some less. Ask yourself, how many hours do you need to be successful?
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