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Longest continous study session
Started by studmuffin
6 hours is hardly an unreasonable study session... should've included more choices past 6 hours.
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More than a 10 minute break=end of session. I think this will interesting to see
ya you're right. Can I edit the poll somehow?
This sounds about right.
I once went 18 hours straight for a bio test. My studying involves no computer, cell phone, etc. I felt accomplished, and got an A on the test!
6+ hours is pretty typical during finals week for me
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deleted307836
I've spent every moment of free time I've had studying a weekend before a test on a Monday... and I don't think that's too uncommon.
True
Unfortunately no.
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Yep, this was basically every weekend for me during my pharmacology class.
Never again.10 hours during finals weeks. It was a study lockdown in the truest sense of the word as I didn't leave my room except for going to the bathroom.
I am re-posting this thread with more options.
Would you like me to delete the other one for you?
The week before taking the MCAT I studied 12-14 hours each day with breaks for food and showering. That was terrible, but I hadn't really studied much outside of that and did NOT want to have to retake.
For classes, I would say 4-6 hours before each test is about average, but then again I am a terrible crammer... One of the things I'm gonna need to do for med school is get used to spreading out my studying more.
For classes, I would say 4-6 hours before each test is about average, but then again I am a terrible crammer... One of the things I'm gonna need to do for med school is get used to spreading out my studying more.
I posted a new poll with more options, maybe the mods can erase this one.
Hmm, didn't think of that before I deleted it. Probably wouldn't have worked with the polls.
Yes, or somehow merge them would be great, thanks
BOOOO. Can we experiment?
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Good goin CB, you ruined his poll 😀
Not my fault. YOU'RE THE ASSt MOD!
10-12 hours for me, anything more than that and I don't get anything done
It would be interesting to break this down by subject (i.e. physics, ochem)
I underestimated people on here, geez. For me 12+ hours is inhuman. I havn't started studying for the MCAT yet though, so we'll see.
Saggy is the bestest asst mod. Just sayin' y'all!
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Impeach Saggy Bottom.
Also, I have the attention span of a small child, so <1 hour for me.
Also, I have the attention span of a small child, so <1 hour for me.
I lol'ed.
Saggy tried. Failed yes, but Saggy tried.
Around 8 at most.
Yep, this was basically every weekend for me during my pharmacology class.
Por que?
MED SCHOOL?????? Omgz.... pharmacology! Is it weird that I get off thinking about beta-2 adrenergic receptors... AC/BD.... and holy hannah GPCRs are the most amazing things evaaaar.
Nerd Alert.
I definantly studied 12+ on some days and an average 8/day for 3-4 days before big test. I knew one guy that was in the top of his med school class who would pull 18 hours per day for 5 days before their cumulative test. He was a gunner and would party just as hard after each test.
I took pharmacology hoping that it would help me once I reached med school. Finished the class and I now remember exactly zero drugs. 😀 I did 4.0 the class though. 👍 I also learned that I am pretty decent at cramming trivial minutiae in large doses.
Quick. No wikipedia... cephalosporin... dosage for UTI. GO.
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deleted393595
If you mean session, 8 hours.
If you mean how long I studied without a break, 30 mins. I blame Facebook.
If you mean how long I studied without a break, 30 mins. I blame Facebook.
Yep, this was basically every weekend for me during my pharmacology class.
I feel you there 😉 but I would have to disagree with code blue, it doesn't rub me that way!
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kpcrew
staying up all night to study, easily over 16 hours in a row.
Oh jeez, I don't keep track of that. I get so ADD, I can usually only do a few hours before I get bored.
During finals week my usual studying is at most 6 hrs at a time.
I rarely go over 1-2, but the MCAT definitely forced me to 4-6 at times. That said, if we count papers... 24 hours. I wrote a 47-page term paper in 24 hours my senior year. The prof told us it'd be like 15-20 pages but no one's was less than 30-40 because of her content requirements. Basically, it was a huge analysis of data we had individually collected over the entire semester. I got an A. I still don't know how, considering I started exactly 24 hours before the time it was due!
What class was that?
bout tree fiddy
I once studied for three days straight sustaining on only coffee and pizza.
We studied in the basement of my fraternity house. We had individual desks down there and some mattresses for crashing. One semester I was taking 20 credits and every final was within a time-span of 2 days. Physiology II, A-Chem, Macroeconomics, Immunology, Advanced Intermediary Biochemistry and some literature class. I would have stayed down there longer but I had to take a friend to the hospital and stay with her because no one was around.
I was awake all night and then I went to my three hour Biochemistry final at 8:00am. The test consisted of one question and 5 blank sheets of paper. The question was basically - "Draw and name every structure and every step of every pathway of human metabolism, providing conditions for the activation and inactivation of each pathway." That was a great test.
We studied in the basement of my fraternity house. We had individual desks down there and some mattresses for crashing. One semester I was taking 20 credits and every final was within a time-span of 2 days. Physiology II, A-Chem, Macroeconomics, Immunology, Advanced Intermediary Biochemistry and some literature class. I would have stayed down there longer but I had to take a friend to the hospital and stay with her because no one was around.
I was awake all night and then I went to my three hour Biochemistry final at 8:00am. The test consisted of one question and 5 blank sheets of paper. The question was basically - "Draw and name every structure and every step of every pathway of human metabolism, providing conditions for the activation and inactivation of each pathway." That was a great test.
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