<p>are quarter system people smarter than semester systemers? </p>
<p>of course we all know that the quarter system is more stressful than the semester system and what one learns in 16 weeks is the same exact material that one would learn in only 10 weeks in the quarter. </p>
<p>is it just me or does it take a lot more to learn something in 10 weeks as opposed to 16 weeks. </p>
<p>if you don’t agree i would really like to know.</p>
<p>um… No. It might take more work to learn something in 10 weeks compared to 16, but it doesn’t exactly make one smarter. I don’t think you actually can compare it like that.</p>
<p>and usually in quarter systems you aren’t taking as many classes at the same time.</p>
<p>That’s like asking: are private school people smarter than public school people?</p>
<p>Just no. </p>
<p>I suppose you can consider you may learn more information in either.</p>
<p>Quarter system is compacted but more different things. Semester you focus longer, but may learn less subjects.</p>
<p>and you can’t base what the school system is on how smart an individual is.</p>
<p>I repeat: It has nothing to do with how smart the individual is.</p>
<p>its harder. but i dont think it makes the students any smarter… no correlation.</p>
<p>Just because it’s a 10 week course vs. a 16 week course doesn’t make people smarter. Nobody said that people in 10-week courses actually do well in the courses :)</p>
<p>actually…research on learning would suggest that people who study the information over a longer period (i.e., a semester) instead of trying to cram that same amount of information into a shorter period of time (quarters) are more likely to retain what they learned…so in that case, if one applied him or herself fully, the semester student should learn better…but really, I don’t think it makes that much of a difference</p>
<p>Yeah…what they said. </p>
<p>apumic, I don’t know if I believe that, just based on my own experience. I guess it depends on the subject, but I think that if you’re faced with material every day for a period of time, you’re probably going to remember it better than if you’re only faced with it once or twice a week. I know when I took a short semester summer course last year (my school calls them Maymesters) I learned more just as much out of that class than I did in my semester long classes only because I had to see the material everyday and read about it so I could do well on the tests.</p>
<p>You don’t learn the same amount of stuff, usually. A sequence of classes that would be 2 15-week classes in a regular semester system would be 3 10-week classes in a quarter system, which is why it gets tricky if you want to transfer between the 2 types of schools. You do usually end up taking a greater number of classes over the time, so I guess you could say quarter system students have a greater variety in what they’ve learned, but that doesn’t make them “smarter”. Why would it?</p>
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<p>we do? I didn’t know that.</p>
<p>so what about those of us who take full semester courses, and are choosing to take a couple of 8 week courses in the summer? does that mean we’re super smart or an average of the two?</p>
<p>term length has nothing to do with how smart a person is</p>
<p>Quarter system is typically more difficult/stressful if the only time you study is cramming before exams…</p>
<p>Otherwise, stress level and difficulty has a lot more to do with the particular school and a lot less with whether they use quarter or semester.</p>
<p>quarter systems students aren’t smarter. the quarter system moves really fast and you typically have a midterm by week 3. If you like a school that is constantly moving (little down time except holidays) then the quarter system is good. if you like to digest the material for long periods of time, then semester system is for u.</p>