<p>This is my freshmen schedule. How many hours of studying should I devote to those classes ?</p>
<p>For PreCalc and Gen Chem, practice doing the problems over and over again. Make sure you understand the concepts–if you don’t understand something, ask. The general rule of thumb is that you should expect to study about 2 to 3 hours per week outside class for each unit of credit. So for a 3 unit class, that’s 6-9 hours per week of studying for that class. </p>
<p>Personally, I never had to study much for English or Psych. Those were the easy A courses for me. But for Pre-Calc and Gen Chem, I really had to make sure I understood the concepts and how to work out the problems.</p>
<p>This is almost impossible to answer because it’s very subjective and it comes down to you as a person and how you can handle workload. I can tell you for anything with math, just practice, practice, and…practice. Keep doing problems and if you get stuck, then get help and find out how to solve it. Don’t ever leave unanswered questions behind. I think the same applied for science-related classes but i’m not a pro at those. I know for social sciences like psych, it takes a lot of re-reading/writing notes. Just pay close attention to your lectures and it won’t be an issue. English is a pretty easy class if you follow the formulas of your book or what your professor says to do.</p>
<p>I usually spend 1-2+ hours per class, so I’d say 20 hours a week of studying for those classes would be solid.</p>
<p>Well English has always just been easy for me, but the tests are probably going to all be essays and the same goes for the final. So make sure that you understand how to write a proper essay before anything. You’ll be assigned various short stories to read, think about and discuss in class. When it comes time to study read the stories again and try to make sur eyou know the author’s of each one. (This is a little overkill, but do all this and even if English isn’t your strong point you’ll do fine.)</p>
<p>Math. Practice, Practice and Practice some more. Make sure you know how to do every type of problem you’ve studied and make sure you memorize the formulas. Some teachers will right them on the board and some won’t. Also, make sure you can tell what word problems are asking you so that you know which formula to use.</p>
<p>I haven’t ever taken a Psych course and I haven’t taken Chemistry in college so I can’t help you with those.</p>