Universities

[danny8522003]

Im looking at going to University in September next year in the UK after my A-Levels. I have no idea how Universities work when it comes to classes, lectures and setting work.

 

Is it like A-Level where you attend a series of classes, do work and study in class for exams, is it like Primary School where you are in specific classes and taught one to twenty or is it something completely different?

 

Any info would be great,

 

Thanks

[rakuenso]

I recommend SNAFU university

 

http://www.snafuuniversity.com

[Drug addict]

It all depends on what course you do and which university you go to. I did pharmacy at Aston university and in my first three years I typically had around 25 hours of lectures (with around 120 people in lectures). Each lecture had around 1 hour of directed study, which can be done or not, and I had around 6 hours of labs, all of which had preparation and write ups which needed to be done, as well as having the odd essay to do. So quite a bit of work then.

 

A lot of my final year was spent in the lab working on my project, or in the library reading papers for my project, or revising for finals.

 

However, I would guess that most courses aren't quite as intense as pharmacy was, and don't have anywhere as many people on.

 

Uni is quite different to anything else, you have to take responsibility for your own learning, no one will chase you up if you don't go to lectures, and you can specialise in whatever takes your fancy.

[albertlee]

I recommend SNAFU university

 

http://www.snafuuniversity.com

 

lol, what the...

 

 

frankly, that uni is basically for n00bs... No offense, to be honest.

[Anjruu]

Wait, I thought that was a joke. "My blog will be my thesis"?

[Klaynos]

It all depends on what course you do and which university you go to. I did pharmacy at Aston university and in my first three years I typically had around 25 hours of lectures (with around 120 people in lectures). Each lecture had around 1 hour of directed study' date=' which can be done or not, and I had around 6 hours of labs, all of which had preparation and write ups which needed to be done, as well as having the odd essay to do. So quite a bit of work then.

 

A lot of my final year was spent in the lab working on my project, or in the library reading papers for my project, or revising for finals.

 

However, I would guess that most courses aren't quite as intense as pharmacy was, and don't have anywhere as many people on.

 

Uni is quite different to anything else, you have to take responsibility for your own learning, no one will chase you up if you don't go to lectures, and you can specialise in whatever takes your fancy.[/quote']

 

 

I agree it's very differnt from anything else, and depends an awful lot on your course and uni.

 

BA Media at Luton will be very different from BSc Maths at Warwick...

[danny8522003]

Im looking at doing a MPhys at Kent. The name of the course is Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics (F592).

 

Has anyone here done anything similar?

[ajw2255]

Im currently doing an MChem at Bath uni, and am in my second year, I have 8 hrs of lectures with 100+ people, and then 3 Workshops ( 20 people) and 1 tutorial (4 people) a week As well as a day and a half of Labs.

A lot of what the previous posts have said applies to me aswell, you are in charge of your learning and if you dont bother working you arent going to do well,

 

Like one of of my lecturers said, for every hour ur in a lecture, u should do 2 extra hours work.