How many hours do you study in undergrad and what's your GPA

[tennisball80]

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I study 1 minute per day on average and I have a 4.0 GPA.

But, seriously, how about you?

I study about 3 hours per week and my GPA is about 3.6.

 

[Morsetlis]

3 hours is too much...

For 3 hours / week I expect a 4.0 ;p

 

[tennisball80]

3 hours is too much...

For 3 hours / week I expect a 4.0 ;p

Please tell me how to do that.

 

[Morsetlis]

Please tell me how to do that.

I don't count time doing required HW, btw. I spent a ton of time making my lab reports look cute on the computer.

I mean 3 hours of book/syllabus reading. I basically didn't read the material in college (the funnest part was humanities classes... how the hell did I write essays on things I haven't read and still passed the class is beyond me.)

 

[CaptainSSO]

Well, if I had to guess, about 3-5 hours during weekdays and usually 6+ on Saturday and Sunday. I have no life (except for, luckily, a girlfriend), but I do have 4.0!! Is it worth it?? I'll let you know in about a year.

 

[Morsetlis]

Well, if I had to guess, about 3-5 hours during weekdays and usually 6+ on Saturday and Sunday. I have no life (except for, luckily, a girlfriend), but I do have 4.0!! Is it worth it?? I'll let you know in about a year.

Definitely worth it. What else would you need besides a girlfriend?

 

[LRAccord624]

Well, if I had to guess, about 3-5 hours during weekdays and usually 6+ on Saturday and Sunday. I have no life (except for, luckily, a girlfriend), but I do have 4.0!! Is it worth it?? I'll let you know in about a year.

If you're studying that much now, what are you going to do in medical school? I'll admit I'm only at a 3.7 but not studying any where near that much. Hopefully that amount includes MCAT studying or something. Go enjoy your life!

 

[Legacy87]

About four hours a night (includes facebook, sdn, & aim) and was living with my girlfriend during sophomore to senoir year. 4.0

 

[SusGob711]

I'll include HW time with my studying because that is how I learn the material for exams so I'd say around 10 hrs+./week, more if I have an exam coming up. I just transfered to my school but I expect my GPA to be about a 3.7-3.8 range hopefully.

 

[CaliGirl14]

If you're studying that much now, what are you going to do in medical school? I'll admit I'm only at a 3.7 but not studying any where near that much. Hopefully that amount includes MCAT studying or something. Go enjoy your life!

We're not all gifted. Some of us actually have to sit down and study the stuff.

Come on people, we're all on different levels.

 

[morning]

One meeellion hours.

 

[jkhanh]

I do best by studying midnight the night before a test. Ive managed a 3.88 thus far, but the lack of sleep sucks when im driving to class lol.

 

[Narmerguy]

Over 9000!!!!!

 

[swamprat]

As a freshmen taking gen chem, bio and calc and gen eds I busted my @$$ .. partially because I needed A's and I wanted to be a doctor without knowing much about how classes were graded and tests were, but also because transitioning from HS where I did 0 work and basically slacked off everyday. Once I to sophomore year my study time decreased and I still managed to pull off As and that continued until now as a senior. I'd say looking back college classes are pretty much a joke, and I think I'm going to only further agree with that once I start medical school. They are interesting, but you have SO MUCH TIME and the material in volume is not that much. Its just about getting a study routine and working through personal issues that'll keep you in the library longer than necessary in UG.

 

[zeppelinpage4]

I just had the first exam week so it must have been anywhere from 5-7 hours a day outside of class.

On a more relaxed week maybe about 3 hours a day counting required HW.

 

[Hifey]

freshman year I actually probably spent around 10ish hours studying/doing hw outside of class..maybe a little more cause I was scared of not doing well haha. Now...I only study on the weeks that I have exams and I spend maybe 4-6 hours per exam depending on the class. Other than that...I don't study lol. My transcript reads tons of As, a handful of Bs, and two Cs. and a few "passes" when I changed my classes to pass/fail (none were prereqs).

 

[Practitioner]

I used to skip classes and study alone or in a small group instead, so 12-15 hours/week (2-3 hours/day). For classes that you need to attend no studying. 3+ GPA. Refers to reading and short homework assignments, like physics or chemistry questions.

Doesn't include countless hours writing up papers/reports, since I always tried to get classes with papers/projects instead of exams.

I wonder if a lot of pre-meds cram for exams in undergrad?

 

[apumic]

3 sciences w/ labs atm (calc physics/o-chem/bio)... not including classes, I study (incl. hw, lab reports, etc.) about 10 hrs/wk on average (averaging in test and quiz weeks into that)...so about .5-1 hr/unit of coursework. The sciences are easy stuff. 😀

cGPA: 3.8+/sGPA: 3.7+ (trending upward...haven't recalculated them recently; the music degree is what is keeping my GPA from a 4.0... haha... ugh)

 

[Frazier]

I study/do homework for about 15-25 hrs a weeks (completed mostly during student desk job).

 

[CaptainSSO]

We're not all gifted. Some of us actually have to sit down and study the stuff.

Come on people, we're all on different levels.

Haha, I can see why you would think that way, but this is not a matter of me being on a "different level." And just so you'll know, I stopped wearing velcro shoes and a bicycle helmet to school last year, so I kind of resent your unfounded presumption.

The main reason I study so much is because I honestly just love learning, and I like to fully understand all of the material -- not just what I need to do well on a test. Most likely a lot of what I do is overkill, but it's just because I do actually enjoy it.

If you're studying that much now, what are you going to do in medical school?

Probably the same thing I'm doing now.

 

[randombetch]

I study (including reading, excluding class time and assignments?) about 30 hours a week on average. On weeks without tests coming up, that number is around 20, and on the weeks with tests, I study around 40 hours on top of assignments and going to class.

My GPA is somewhere around 3.75, which puts me in the top 20% at my school. My school is hard.

Luckily, the average GPA for those accepted to a top 10 med school (around 30% a year) is below a 3.75 😀.

 

[ReptarBar]

^^^ what a waste of time. i would hate to be you.

 

[jla314]

I study (including reading, excluding class time and assignments?) about 30 hours a week on average. On weeks without tests coming up, that number is around 20, and on the weeks with tests, I study around 40 hours on top of assignments and going to class.

My GPA is somewhere around 3.75, which puts me in the top 20% at my school. My school is hard.

Luckily, the average GPA for those accepted to a top 10 med school (around 30% a year) is below a 3.75 😀.

i know for a fact your school is not hard.

😛

 

[circulus vitios]

A few hours a week of study time, maybe more depending on how memorization based the class is. Homework and labs take 8-10 hours a week. I had a 4.0 last semester. I doubt I'll get a 4.0 this semester because my physics professor sucks balls at teaching.

 

[randombetch]

^^^ what a waste of time. i would hate to be you.

Ouch, I love being me. My classes are awesome, and I still feel like I have plenty of free time (which I use "efficiently"). And I love going to class - my professors are the ****.

 

[randombetch]

i know for a fact your school is not hard.

😛

Pssshhhh. By the way, are you going to be valedictorian? At this rate, it looks like you'll end up with the GPA I would imagine valedictorians from Harvard have had.

 

[jla314]

Pssshhhh. By the way, are you going to be valedictorian? At this rate, it looks like you'll end up with the GPA I would imagine valedictorians from Harvard have had.

i don't even know what kind of GPA Harvard valedictorians have had

 

[tennisball80]

i don't even know what kind of GPA Harvard valedictorians have had

Possible 4.3. They study 12 hours per day. 12 hours of ECs. and 0 hours of sleep.

 

[jla314]

Possible 4.3. They study 12 hours per day. 12 hours of ECs. and 0 hours of sleep.

or majored in gov

😛

 

[tennisball80]

or majored in gov

😛

Harvard students are generally majored in gunner studies.

 

[Morsetlis]

Harvard triple majors: CSE, Biochemistry, Economics ;p

Just kidding.

 

[metallica81788]

This thread will end up turning into e-wanking, but I'll throw my stats in for the hell of it.

No tests in a week - 0 hrs studying
If I have tests - between 1-3 hours for each test
3.89

 

[CaliGirl14]

Haha, I can see why you would think that way, but this is not a matter of me being on a "different level." And just so you'll know, I stopped wearing velcro shoes and a bicycle helmet to school last year, so I kind of resent your unfounded presumption.

The main reason I study so much is because I honestly just love learning, and I like to fully understand all of the material -- not just what I need to do well on a test. Most likely a lot of what I do is overkill, but it's just because I do actually enjoy it.

Probably the same thing I'm doing now.

Good for you.

 

[Cogito ergo es]

60 hours of study time each week, study including readings, coursework, revision and extras mentioned but not officially covered by the professor.

 

[jla314]

This thread will end up turning into e-wanking, but I'll throw my stats in for the hell of it.

No tests in a week - 0 hrs studying
If I have tests - between 1-3 hours for each test
3.89

sounds similar to my schedule 👍

...e-wanking?

 

[Naijaba]

The main reason I study so much is because I honestly just love learning, and I like to fully understand all of the material -- not just what I need to do well on a test. Most likely a lot of what I do is overkill, but it's just because I do actually enjoy it.

I love learning as well, but I have difficulty focusing on one content area for long periods of time. The end result was lower grades in biology courses which required constant studying and higher grades in engineering/math classes. The latter required a smaller set of memorized facts and a greater understanding of equations in context. Overall, both the biology and engineering courses required the same amount of time with different mental approaches. I'd say my total studying amounted to about 20 hrs/week.

My GPA is somewhere around 3.75, which puts me in the top 20% at my school. My school is hard.

Luckily, the average GPA for those accepted to a top 10 med school (around 30% a year) is below a 3.75 😀.

My school is difficult as well. As I mentioned I'm not the best at biology/memorization-intensive courses (read: ochem). As it turns out my engineering grades pulled my overall GPA high enough to get honors (top 12%) in biology, but my biology grades were so low that they pulled my engineering grades out of honors. I ended up getting honors in biology (which I'm not the best at) and no honors in engineering (which I'm better at).

 

[nisarg2010]

0 hr studying and I have a 4.28 GPA.

...but im still in High School, LOL. Im sure it will be different next year.

 

[chman]

It really depends. Some weeks 3hrs, others 30hrs, it all depends on how close it is to finals, term papers, etc.

Sometimes I put in 10hrs on the weekends, but I'm not sure how much of that is "actual studying." Between movies, SDN, phone, etc., I imagine (actually I know) that I waste a lot of time.

3.8 +- .01

 

[CaptainSSO]

This thread will end up turning into e-wanking, but I'll throw my stats in for the hell of it.

No tests in a week - 0 hrs studying
If I have tests - between 1-3 hours for each test
3.89

0 hours studying? You're either lying or you go to a ridiculously easy school. That doesn't even make sense if you study for 0 hours. For instance, if I am supposed to learn how to build a computer, and I don't read the instructions on how to build a computer, I don't care if I have a 190 IQ -- I won't know how to build the computer.

You must go to an easy state school. I assure you, if you tried to study for 1 to 3 hours for an organic chemistry test at my school you would fail it. Miserably. We had a literal genius in my ochem class last year who thought he could pull off the whole not studying thing, and he dropped the class because he was failing.

3.8 +- .01

How exactly would not know where your GPA falls in the range of 3.7 to 3.9?

 

[JJMrK]

No tests in a week - 0 hrs studying
If I have tests - between 1-3 hours for each test
3.89

That sounds about right for my past few semesters. It was significantly more than that when I was taking the pre-reqs. I'd guess about one-two hours/day + plus a few additional hours in the ~2 days leading up to a test.

 

[GregoryMD]

Study night before a test. 3.8 GPA

 

[chman]

How exactly would not know where your GPA falls in the range of 3.7 to 3.9?

At my school you can check the grades on two different sites. I checked it on one and it was 3.79, and on another it was 3.81.

Also, that was +/- .01, not +/- .1 Big difference.

 

[mmmcdowe]

I did the reading and problems and would review the notes the dat before or two days before the exam, depending on the difficulty. Flash cards were valuable for some classes. 4.0

 

[chman]

I did the reading and problems and would review the notes the dat before or two days before the exam, depending on the difficulty. Flash cards were valuable for some classes. 4.0

I'm all about the flash cards for some reason. However, I find that I spend more time writing them then studying them.

 

[mmmcdowe]

I'm all about the flash cards for some reason. However, I find that I spend more time writing them then studying them.

I find the writing to be helpful honestly. However, they are definitely a time commitment. Since medical school, I have written several thousand flash cards and used them as my primary means of studying. They work very well and once I have them I blow through the material, but it is definitely time consuming.