jimjack on 18/9/2006 at 06:08
Averaging about an hour and a half of homework each night so far. Bah.. it begins again. I am hoping to sail through school with an inborn ability to write (even though my grammer and puncuation blows) and a prodigious memory capable of allowing me to avoid homework all together and the whole grade drama that ensues. Regularly checked, constantly questioned, deviously quizzed on...dammitt reactivating braincells again... homework is going to be the bane of my very existence. :mad:
Naartjie on 18/9/2006 at 10:34
I remember getting far more homework when I was in the early years of secondary school and studying 12 (GCSE) subjects than towards the end. I would do upwards of 2-3 hours a night with stuff like chemistry/physics/geography etc, but on average about half that once I got down to studying 3-4 (AS/A2) subjects more intensively towards the end.
Sadly at university I still haven't escaped homework, as studying a language means I get two home-exercises a week :(
Agent Monkeysee on 18/9/2006 at 16:17
I don't recall having that much homework that I couldn't get done in class until High School and even then it really depended on the subject. Science and math classes took the most constant time, i.e. you'd have an hour or so every night, whereas English and History classes tended to bunch up. You'd write a paper in 4 hours one night and then do nothing at all for that class the next.
I do recall that my brother, who was 4 years behind me, seemed to have a fuckload more homework than I did when I was in his grades. He was putting in more work a night in Jr. High than I was at the peak of High School, and in my opinion it was too much because it just made him hate school even more.
Turtle on 18/9/2006 at 17:23
Quote Posted by Shug
Over here homework wasn't graded; you were occasionally spot-checked or simply asked a question from up front.
In my experience, a lot of this goes on.
Either that, or the teachers will pawn it off on Aides and TAs.
