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<li>i know this is a thread for forever ago</li>
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<p>As an IB Diploma kid, from my experience what gives is that the students don’t do all the work that is assigned. I took English tests on books that I hadn’t read. Sometimes the homework for classes in the afternoon wasn’t finished until lunch time. Sometimes you got some significant “help” on the homework from other students, which was then paid back at another time. The kids that take schedules like this also seem to have time consuming ECs (sports, music, etc) and you can’t really skip on those. My classmates and I were routinely up until 12/1/2am in high school.</p>
<p>That said, 7 classes x 2 hours a day = 14 hrs/day of hw. Obviously kids are not doing anywhere near that much. 7 x 1 hour a day is probably towards the high end of the hours actually spent doing hw.</p>
<p>I went to a college that is generally thought to be pretty rigorous and it was a lot less work than high school for me. Not that exam time wasn’t super stressful or things like that, but the day to day work was a lot more manageable (and you are only in class for 2-5 hours a day instead of 8)</p>