<p>What do you call studying?</p>
<p>If pure studying and not doing homework, then I’ve probably spent less than 15-25 hours total studying over 6-7 weeks in the quarter system. If you mean doing homework then I’ve spent quite a bit of time doing homework as “practice” on the way to going into a test. </p>
<p>I spent 99% of pure studying cramming the 1-2 days before the test. For instance, in easy liberal arts general eds I just paid attention in class and got an A on the test without studying. It was a 100 question exam for my anthropology 201 class. For Partial Differential Equations I spent 2 days studying from the very beginning teaching myself everything we needed to know for the exam and got an 88 when the average was 56. And a lot of those people study in groups and religiously. I think when it comes down to studying at like 6 hours a day for a particular class you’re not studying “smart”, it’s more like a drill. But that doesn’t hold for every major or every class. In Sampling Theory I studied 2 days before the test, went through over 300 pages of the text learning everything, and came out with an 80. Average was 65. We were allowed ten pages of notes, I just used like half a page. When you’re using ten pages of notes…I don’t think you’ve learned anything. My Set Theory class I put a lot of time into naturally so I can’t really say anything about that. It’s just the way the class is structured. I’m not really studying the chapters, I’m doing lots of proofs as practice.</p>