1) Yes in prolly 75% of your classes its gonna be all lecture. Yes the topics discused are VERY important for the test. Some teachers put random things only from lecture and not in the book on the midterms. There are some but very few classes the reading the book strategy will work for but those are gonna be for your GE classes. but once you start taking harder classes (2nd year and on) this will not work.

2) Totally depends on the class 1-5. Mostly 1 main book and maybe 1 or 2 small books that you will open 2 times. I only read about 40 minutes a day. But for harder colleges its no joke like 2 hours per night.

3) there is a TON of free time. my Mon/Wed/Fri i go from 9-12, 3 classes then 12-1 i have bball class. And these are all 50 minutes. Tue/Thur i go from 11-1:45 2 classes an hour and 15 each one. If you are gonna play sports i would recoment for you to have a light schedual the 1st semester to feel it out.

4) I stay up depending on when i start the next day but mainly i go to bed around 11:30-1:30.

good luck i hope this info is some help

1. Yes professors give lectures. No you don’t have to go to lecture or read the book. After all you paid for the course. A professors responsibility is to lecture about said chapter or something relating to that chapter. There may be some confusion, and you may have to find the context of the lecture. Somethings in a lecture, will not be in the textbook and visa versa. If you assume that everything a professor will test on is in a textbook, you will basically fail.

2. A class can have one skinny book, a class can have several books, or a class can have no books recommended. It all depends on that particular professor. He/she can assign a book that he wrote as corriculum. You don’t have to read at all. You paid for the course. However you don’t know how or what the professor will test you on. He will give you a general synopsis, but remember he is assuming that you read the text and attended his lectures.

If you study a lot before the test, you can relax a bit when it comes time to take the test. Last minute cramming never works, last minute refresher is helpful.

3. Sure, if you devote at least 2 to 3 hrs a day reading your text. You don’t have to study much on the weekends, if you do that. However if you wasted those weekdays and didn’t do anything, and that test is on Monday. That means you have to spend those fun weekends cramming for a test that may be up to 5 chapters long. Just make time for your studying, so that your soccer time won’t have to suffer, You got to have fun.

4. The only time I had to stay up late is when I had to do some serious cramming.

Do you have a scholarship? If so don’t waste it. If you fail a semester, I don’t think you can get a scholarship back. If you paid, then what a waste of money. If you don’t pass a course, it is okay too. Save all your old material and take the course again, preferably with the same professor.

2/ The number of textbooks depend on which you’ll study, I don’t know exactly. And you’ll have to find some more books and read it by yourself. You must do most of the things on your own.

3/ If you arrange well, certainly you can have free time. I think it’s not too much, but enough for playing soccer.

4/ I sometimes stay up late, when necessary. It’s not good for your health.

You can count on an average of 2 or 3 text books per class. They will range in price and size. In addition, many classes will require that you make use of the periodicals and library stacks. There is a lot of reading to do but it is completely possible.

In high school they say that you should plan for about a half an hour of study each night for each class that you take. In college you should plan on two hours of study each night for each hour of class you take. If you are not using that much time now that you are in high school and you are getting good marks you will probably need less than two hours when you are in college.

How much free time you get depends on your class load, your study habits, your reading speed, and your ability to write clearly and well. It is not unusual to have a professor in any subject lower your grade by an entire letter grade for making spelling errors on you papers. It also depends on your definition of a lot of free time. I had a lot of free time but it was not consistent. As projects and papers were assigned, I would work on them and get them done. Then I would have a lot of free time.

I still stay up late. When I was in college I would stay up untill 3 or 4 in the morning. I would get up around 9. Even today I will stay up untill 1 or 2 and get up around 7.

Some are interactive with class participation.

Each class has a text books, some have two or three. They are usually expensive. Plan on buying $200 in books each semester.

There is generally 3 hours of work outside of class for each 1 hour class.

There is lots of free time and even Soccer teams.

Everyone stays up late. Lots of people stay at the Library until 11 pm doing research. There is a lot of research, a lot of paper writing, all papers have to be annotated and in a style format.

Lots of people do work on the weekends to.

The classes are more intense and far more demanding than Highschool

They are also at different hours on different days.

You might have two classes in the morning on Mondays and Wedsnsaday. All afternoon classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Maybe even an evening class one day a week.

The University campus is generally two or three times the size of a High School campus. You may have a mile hike from one class to another.

There are also labs for some science classes.

Chemistry is 3 hours a week with a lab session that’s 1-4 additional hours.

2 usually, 4-6 books for a full-time student. you have to buy your own books.

3. no, especially in the middle and the end of the semester.

4. depends, not everyday

But, if you really aren’t interested, why not take a semester off? You’ll be able to do what you want, and pay for it, yourself. Also, it’s more honest.

If and when you go,try to find courses that will match your interests. You may begin to imagine being in a particular career.