How to Study - As an Adult

No one expects or recommends that you try and knock a weeks worth of work in a Saturday afternoon. That is not a great way to absorb information.

Instead we go back to the everyday rule. Most single units at university are recommended to have 10-12 hours of work in them per week for success. If you are doing two units, that is 20-24 hours per week.

A week is 168 hours long -56 hours of sleeping =112 hours-38 hours work=74 hours -30 hours for exercise, shopping for groceries, cooking and eating = 44 hours - 7 hours for personal hygiene = 37hours- 7 hours for transportation or house cleaning = 30 hours and 6 hours of fun and homework with children or caring for a family member, volunteering= 24 hours.

That 24 hours over a week is approximately 3 + hours a day which may seem excessive, but including Zoom lectures, reading and administration- especially the drafting and creation on assignments, that time will easily been necessary to complete these units.

It maybe that you life is so busy that you may need to rise and hour earlier, do an hours work, then family, work etc....then family, pop the kids to bed and an another hour or so before bed may need to top off the days study. Plus on weekends you may do more than the three hours, but break it up. Go for a walk, be outside in nature to recharge, talk to others about the task, start something, walk away and do the laundry, come back read it out aloud, move forward. Keeping up is better than trying to catch up.

Remember if you get stuck, reach out as soon as possible, I will have something back to you as soon as I can. Then ACT on it...make those edits.