<p>I’ve seen threads on CC where people say they get 5 or 6 hours of homework a day.</p>
<p>I’m entering into high school, and I pretty much always finished my homework in study hall in middle school. I know high school is harder, especially for honors classes, but how does one get 5 or 6 hours of homework a day? I can see 1-2 hours, maybe 3 on a hard day, but 5 or 6?</p>
<p>Do they have to read a novel, outline chapters for several textbooks, and do a few worksheet packets all in one night? </p>
<p>Or do these people waste time? </p>
<p>I was curious to those people who do get 5/6 hours a day, what is an average workload(listing all assignments)? Why do the teachers at your school love giving so much?</p>
<p>It also seems like people on CC go to much harder high schools than average, because in my school, if you put in the effort in an Honors English class, you’ll get a B at the bare minimum. I’ve heard stories here where people can barely get a D in IB English when they’re trying as hard as they can.</p>
<p>You also have to include study time. Regular homework took me maybe an hour or two (without procrastination… hehe Facebook), but I could study for AP Bio or AP Euro for hours straight with maybe a 10 minute break somewhere and still not be finished if it was a particularly long chapter or a test on a few chapters (that I hadn’t read earlier lol).</p>
<p>An hour or two? Man, I would love to go to your school. It takes me around 4 hours to do my homework at night, and then another hour in the morning to completely finish. No facebook by the way.</p>
<p>Junior year I had 4 AP’s, 1 CC and 1 art class. For me, homework loads are always front loaded. Teachers feel compelled to assign tons of homework at the beginning of the year to make their classes feel difficult. But towards the end, only the teachers who truly care assign homework.</p>
<p>During second semester, I had less than an hour of homework per day. But as AP tests approached, studying rose to about three hours a day. After AP tests, I had about 10 minutes of homework.</p>
<p>During freshman year (this past year for me), I rarely had to do much homework outside of school. However, there were some painful exceptions. For example, in Honors Biology, a requisite was to do an in-depth science project over three months. Our teacher would often spring huge assignments on us regarding this project with only a few days notice. This led to many 8+ hour workloads outside of school that were excruciating (eg. literature review with 10+ sources; not an easy task for some projects, 4 pages long). Additionally, my English teacher sometimes assigned 7-8 chapters of reading with 30+ questions to answer. This reading, along with studying for tests, math problem sets, and other worksheets, led to the occasional 4-5 hour workload.</p>
<p>In summary, you should remember that high school is much more difficult than middle school. I don’t even go to a very competitive school (and I didn’t take any APs that year). Just remember to keep up, for you’ll regret it if you fall behind.</p>
<p>I could get 5 hours of homework a day pretty easily last (junior) year. I was taking APUSH which averages over an hour every night. AP English required us to read and summarize chapters every night. Depends on the book, but that often could be over an hour. AP Chem wasn’t really nightly homework, but problem sets generally take a few hours each. You have some flexibility to stretch them out, but it’s hard to get them done early when you’re already going to sleep late. Pre-Calc would be a constant 45 mins or so a night. Spanish could be half an hour or so. Religion is a wildcard but it takes up time. And then there’s a good chance that there is something to study for the next day…</p>
<p>5/6 hours on average is exaggerated by anyone who says it. As an average, that means that some days you have more, and some days you have less, so when people say 5/6 hours they are probably referring to the higher-end of what they have to do (even if they have to do it frequently). There is a definite bias in time/day towards when your assignments are due. My APUSH assignments (chapterly) take a bit over 5 hours total, so the last few days before it is due would be really cramped. Some nights you might have 3 hours, some you might have 7.</p>
<p>There are just some extremely easy high schools and teachers where you can just coast, kind of like mine :P!</p>
<p>Then there are the hardcore high schools where the Valedictorian is guaranteed to have skipped grades and where many are sent to the Ivy Leagues. Dual enrollment and taking AP Calculus BC in 10th grade would also be common place.</p>
<p>When it comes to homework, I say quality over quantity</p>
<p>I’m sick of doing 200 problems on the same thing in Calculus rather than doing a few problems and applying the theory critically to those problems.</p>
<p>This is interesting. For those of you with those large workloads, does your high school not have study hall? Do you get any time in class to do homework?</p>
<p>I took one class at the high school this year(Honors Geometry, not uncommon for 8th grader to take this at high school here) and the teacher was really lax, just told us the formulas and gave us 30 minutes to do our homework. I hear he was one of the easiest teachers in the school though.</p>
<p>I never really procrastinate with homework. But I admit to sometimes slacking if I know it is based off of completion…like I may not answer them to the best of my abilities.</p>
<p>We have about half an hour of advisory, which is when the procrastinators finish their hw. but no, everything else is done at home. my school just lovesss homework. people actuallly drop out of my high school because of the workload.</p>
<p>*** I ** * don’t waste time, I just do my homework thoroughly, and our school makes sure our homework assignments are not light, but really pack the punch. Our AP classes are not coasting classes. We are not allowed study halls.</p>
<p>It’s probably two hours of actual homework time and the rest is study time. That’s what happened to me this past year. My teacher’s gave out few formal assignments, it was mainly study for this quiz/test. The only subject that gave consistent daily assignments was Math and Spanish.</p>