How long does it take you to cover 20 pgs of a textbook in college & med school?

[AcademicTerror]

Sciences- 3.5 hrs for me (if I'm slow), 2 hrs If I Quick Histories- same

I'm still in high school and I'd like to learn more about my efficiency when I read vs other people.

College time (how long it takes you to read/take notes for 20 pgs)-

Med School time- (how long it takes you to read/take notes for 20 pgs-people in med school please put your time/input here)

Also about how many pgs of textbooks are covered in med school total for a day? Thanks in adv

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[MilkmanAl]

In med school, assignments vary pretty dramatically by professor, but it's safe to assume you'll have *at least* 50 textbook pages of dry, insipid, overly detailed material to read per day. Honestly, I feel like if you're reading textbooks in med school, you're doing it wrong. You can use your time far more productively. Many people use them as a reference for concepts they don't understand, but I even find that a waste. Every class I've had so far has given me everything I need to ace the test. Between the syllabi and powerpoints, you'll be plenty fine going textbook-free.

Reference and review materials, however, are a different matter. You'll need a couple anatomy books, and the subject review books are great for a quick brush-up on material. That's especially true if your school makes you take the subject-specific NBME tests.

In college, I don't think I ever touched a textbook other than to do practice or homework problems. I think it's safe to say that it'll take you considerably longer to read one college text page than one high school text page, for the most part.

 

[Bacchus]

I agree with Al. I gave up reading texts a while ago and now use them for reference if I remember to bring them with me. If I don't, I go to google and find what I need that way quite easily. Its hard to describe how long it takes to cover 20 pages. Looking back at the past month and a half, 20 pages encompassing the back and its muscles would "fly by" compared to 20 pages of the head and neck region. It varies greatly. Our one pre-reading assignment for the skull encompassed 80 pages and the professor covered everything in a 50 minute lecture. Another lecturer took three days to cover the thorax (and there is not too much going on in it).

 

[schrizto]

Anatomy textbook chapters are really long compared to other subjects.

 

[MilkmanAl]

Why do you own anatomy texts already? 😕

 

[schrizto]

Why do you own anatomy texts already? 😕

I took anatomy and physiology for two years in hs.

 

[AcademicTerror]

thanks for the good advice. Peace And God Bless

 

[orthomyxo]

I'd say it depends on where you go. Most of my professors post Power Point slides from lecture on the internet, so there's not much of a need to read textbooks unless you want understand something more deeply.

Why do you own anatomy texts already? 😕

Why not? I took a basic A&P class in high school and loved it, so now I'm the proud owner of a sweet, classic leather-bound edition of Gray's Anatomy.

 

[MilkmanAl]

Why not?

Because they're expensive and not really useful to you.

 

[orthomyxo]

Because they're expensive and not really useful to you.

It's useful to me if I'm interested in it, and it was only $20 anyway.

 

[schrizto]

so now I'm the proud owner of a sweet, classic leather-bound edition of Gray's Anatomy.

just so you know, there are two types of Gray's Anatomy books... one is the cheap one you can get at B&N for $9.95 that is a reprint of one of Gray's original editions and contains information that is now incorrect. The other is a real medical reference and is as expensive as a medical textbook. So since you bought the $20 version, you should probably use it as a glimpse into history rather than something you can learn anatomy from.

 

[fahimaz7]

lol @ textbooks and 20 pages.


Total pages read thus far in medical school= Zero
Time it would take me to read/learn 20 pages of HS material= 20 minutes
Number of powerpoints covered in a week= 800 pages

Here's the material that was on my last exam. Each page in here is double sided and all of this material was covered in 18 days, 3-4 hours of lecture/day.

Seriously man. This is almost as good of a post as the one where you asked if "taking 5 AP classes=medical school"

 

[Katatonic]

I still read the textbooks for my science classes and I'm a senior in undergrad. For biology, I'll go through 20 pages in ~30-45 minutes unless it's really tricky stuff that I have to read over and over, which could go over an hour at that point.

 

[Vicviper]

Well, it always seemed to me that textbooks weren't really meant as a primary learning material - there's a reason they don't just hand you the book and tell you to go learn. They really are meant to be used as a reference material, unless of course your professor says that he's not going to cover something, and that you need to read it.

But otherwise, 20 pages might take me about half an hour to 45 minutes, depending on how meaty the book is.

 

[orthomyxo]

just so you know, there are two types of Gray's Anatomy books... one is the cheap one you can get at B&N for $9.95 that is a reprint of one of Gray's original editions and contains information that is now incorrect. The other is a real medical reference and is as expensive as a medical textbook. So since you bought the $20 version, you should probably use it as a glimpse into history rather than something you can learn anatomy from.

Yea, I realize it's outdated, but the illustrations are just amazing.

lol @ textbooks and 20 pages.


Total pages read thus far in medical school= Zero
Time it would take me to read/learn 20 pages of HS material= 20 minutes
Number of powerpoints covered in a week= 800 pages

Here's the material that was on my last exam. Each page in here is double sided and all of this material was covered in 10 days, 4 hours of lecture/day.

Seriously man. This is almost as good of a post as the one where you asked if "taking 5 AP classes=medical school"

Wow...

 

[schrizto]

lol @ textbooks and 20 pages.


Total pages read thus far in medical school= Zero
Time it would take me to read/learn 20 pages of HS material= 20 minutes
Number of powerpoints covered in a week= 800 pages

Here's the material that was on my last exam. Each page in here is double sided and all of this material was covered in 10 days, 4 hours of lecture/day.

Seriously man. This is almost as good of a post as the one where you asked if "taking 5 AP classes=medical school"

The link/image doesn't work for me... :/

 

[fahimaz7]

 

[AcademicTerror]

That's a ****load of info. Damn are there like bins/binders full of notes in your room?

 

[orthomyxo]

DAMN!!!

 

[MilkmanAl]

Yes, that really is what med school is like.

 

[orthomyxo]

Lol, I didn't think such binders even existed.

 

[mglavin]

That picture looks like one of the smaller syllabus for a 3 week class from M2. Single sided pages easier to read then a true textbook ~8-12 pages per hour lecture, 4 hours of lecture per day. Usually most people will read it 2-3 times per 3 week block sometimes adding in other review books or Robbins if they are crazy. Not to mention practice questions.

 

[coffeebythelake]

Seriously man. This is almost as good of a post as the one where you asked if "taking 5 AP classes=medical school"

Material-wise, I would say a day of med school is equivalent to 2 weeks of high school.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I honestly don't remember high school that well in terms of specific homework assignments, but I think even that might be an underestimate, assuming you're not talking about those times when all the teachers decide to have a huge project due at the same time for whatever reason.

edit: Underestimate of how many weeks of high school equal a day of med school, that is.