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Do you think that teachers give too much homework. Yes or No please explain
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Homework to me is just forceful studying. It serves no other purpose but for you to pracitce the current subject at hand. Problem with that is, it's being used as tool to determine a student's success. For example let's say someone who's an auditorial learner, they remember what they hear and come test time they do well. However they're not good at doing homework in other words, they cant bring the focus to study the subject since they already understand what it is they just see it as a trivial issue. Now we have the one who does the homework but doesn't know jackshit because they just copy the answers out of the book or someone else but because homework is graded so heavily that they can pass the class without knowing shit. It's flawed system the high school grading system that is. Teachers give more weight to projects and homework rather than the tests itself. I understand that it's to help us build work ethic but for it to determine our grade standing in the class is stupid. That's why you got kids in Algebra 2 classes not knowing how to divide fractions. So I wouldn't necessarily say they give TOO MUCH homework because often times it's not that bad unless you procrastinate, I would say they give too much VALUE to homework by using it as a large factor in our grades, a student should be able to get in A in the class without ever having to do the homework (assuming the student understands the subject) albeit not an A+ but an A regardless
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hun, your in highschool now ...

i thought highschool gave alot of hw (but i don't mind, b/c i enjoy hw) but college gives 10x more hw than highschool did...

hell it would be honost to say that college gives 20x more hw...

but i mean its enjoyable...haha



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The thing with university is that there are far less teaching hours, therefore there has to be more homework, Jeff. :) And you're right, its often more enjoyable because you have decided what you are studying and you've made the choice to be there (unlike school which is compulsory).
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well our freshmen 1st semster (me now) we don't get to choose anything (which sucks) except our major, but like i have 1 class pertaining to my major...heres my schedual:



MAJOR = Finance



MWF:

8am-850am ~~~ Financial Accounting

9am-950am ~~~ Compsotion I

10am-1050am ~~ Introduction to Anthropology



W:

2pm-250pm ~~~ University Seminar



TR:

11am-1215pm ~~ Psychology of Adjustments



T:

530pm-830pm ~~ Principals of Sociology



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So i have:

three "mental" classes (psychology, sociology, and anthropology)

one business class (accounting)

one english class (comp)

one forced-freshman class (univ.)

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i mean its not a horrible sched, its just not what i would pick, but i do enjoy it...haha



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You only have 50 minutes???? I have 2 hours for all of my classes:



Monday:

Music Analysis 8-10am

English 101 - 11-1pm

Math for Meds 2-4pm

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Child develpmet 5-7pm



Same on Wed. But those are my only says in class....
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The biggest difference between college and HS homework is the time you get to be able to finish it. I've gotten more hw in college than in HS, but because of me having more time to do it, it doesn't seem as bad, go figure. I still hate it, but understand it as a necessary evil.
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You only have 50 minutes???? I have 2 hours for all of my classes:



Monday:

Music Analysis 8-10am

English 101 - 11-1pm

Math for Meds 2-4pm

and

Child develpmet 5-7pm



Same on Wed. But those are my only says in class....

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eww, thats weird...

i know we have some of those classes, but i didn't get blocked into them ~ 99.9% of the classes here are either:

MWF - 50 min.

TR - 75 min.

MW - 75 min

single day - 180 min.



so they would add up to being:

MWF - 150 min (2 1/2 hrs ~ 3 credits)

TR - 150 min (2 1/2 hrs ~ 3 credits)

MW - 150 min (2 1/2 hrs ~ 3 credits)

single - 180 min (3 hrs ~ 3 credits)



so are yours 4 credit cources?



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