Figured I'd bring this up to see how your first day was, Jim.
wxmann_91 wrote:WindRunner and fact, if this question you feel is too personal you may PM me, but how many hours a night, on average, do you spend homework on?
Homework . . . well, that's the funny thing about all of this . . . first some storytelling to set up the situation . . .
First term last year I had AP Stat, Chemistry (the regular normal kind), Physics (the regular normal kind as well), and AP Computer Science A. Chem and Physics always allowed for completion of homework in class, for the most part, and it didn't take long for Stat to become like this as well. Comp sci never really gave too much out of class work, so whatever little work that I had left over at the end of the day I could do in homeroom next morning, therefore leaving my afternoons to practice-shower-dinner, followed by whatever I wanted to do, i.e. not homework.

Of course, everything must balance out. Second term was worse, though not as bad as it could have been, as I dropped down to regular US History instead of AP as the AP teacher assigned 3+hours of HW a night - not that easy to do when combined with more practices and English GT, AP Physics, and AP Comp Sci AB. Most of the homework that term was English reading/projects/essays, as the history teacher tried to avoid giving us so much work that we wouldn't have been able to do it in class (oh, the thoughts of doing work at home! gasp!

). Anyway, I had no problem with that, as you could imagine. Comp Sci was still mostly a term-long in-class project, so that made that simple, and AP Physics gave us our homework for the entire unit at the beginning, allowing us to do it whenever we had a chance after learning the material. Usually we had two to three weeks to do 2-4 chapters of work, which is a pretty good deal, as you can sit down on a night of your choosing and get done all of your physics for the next couple of weeks.
But to answer your question: the year before when I had AP Calc, it was usually about an hour or so a night at the beginning (sometimes longer, though, depends on how much we got to do in class and how time-consuming the topic was), but that eventually got relegated to a mad dash in homeroom by the end of the second term - and as I got lazier and the work got easier. Overall, however, I have never been one that could sit down and do hours of work at a time (except for projects and essays - always takes a few hours on the night before it's due). I've also never really had to do that much homework at home, so I would say an average of less than an hour a night since the beginning of high school, but I am a special case.
