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Alan (Lecturer): My rule of thumb would be, do at least say for every hour from my list of contact
I’ve got to do two hours of work outside. So my twelve hours of contact is actually
a 36 hour university week. Now that is going to vary from student to student as some students
may say that’s too much, others may say it’s not enough but a rule of thumb.
Warren (Postgrad Tutor): At University, you will find you have a lot of time to yourself
and you’ll have to decide what you want to do with that time. I've often found that
if you, you treat University like a job, then you get so much more done with, with that
time and its hard, it’s a real skill to learn to be able to, to make best use of
the time and get that study done. Its something I struggled with.
Alice (Postgraduate student): When you go to the tutes and you don’t know what people
are talking about you realise that you probably have to do a bit of work outside of the class
yourself and it think it really makes a big difference. You can really tell when you have
done the reading and you go to the class having done the reading, you can really tell
that, you know, you are on the ball, you know what’s going on and it makes it more
enjoyable.
Alan (Lecturer): It’s not - twelve hours and that's all I have to do, and this is a
common mistake and in fact one of the mistakes I made when I was a first year undergraduate
as well. I thought “Yippee, I have all this time on my hand[s] there’s the union bar
and my friends and I’ll get to the library later.” Well the reality is the twelve hours
is the tip of the iceberg. You’re all familiar with the iceberg principal that there’s
more under the water than above, well University study is very much the same.
Philip (School Leaver): So if I have a two hour lecture and a one hour tutorial then
I will pull a - six hours of time at home for the reading and, and even, I consider,
you know - sitting on a couch thinking about it or even talking to one of my friends about
it, that's still study time but you have got to make sure you give it that time otherwise
you are not really engaging with the Unit.
Yasuko (Mature Age Student): Basically I try to do about a few hours - two or three
hours every day and then [almost the] whole weekend, almost the whole weekend because
I take much longer than probably anyone else because [second] - as second language, and as
well as, I am not really good at reading so...
Nadike (International Student): I would say, say put in about...an extra ten to twelve hours,
[which is really] its sufficient I would say, I would say sufficient.
Philip (School Leaver): I had to organise a diary and start marking out when I needed
to do the reading when I was going to do it and allocate time in my day around work, home
life and actually coming to Uni as well to find time to do the readings.