Should Students Study 25-35 Hours

Introduction Many students strive to receive good grades. To them, it is important because the grades that they receive helps dictate what colleges they can go to in the future. The most important thing that students can do to receive these desired grades is to study. How long should a person study for? According to COSAM, “you need to study two hours per unit per week, or 25-35 hours per week” ( “Supporting Student Success” ). As a student, I realized that most students do not have 25-35 hours to study for tests in all of their classes because of other activities that many of us do every day like sports, working at our job, or volunteering. From these other activities, many of us forgo studying and guess on tests. So, I wanted to test if the amount of time spent studying a set of words would improve the amount recalled to show that even if one only studies for 15 minutes, their grades would improve. Before even starting this …show more content…
The more the brain is encoding the information, the better possibility that it will be able to recall this information. Encoding has four main types to it; Acoustic, Visual, Tactile, and Semantic coding. In a way, we uses these four types of encoding to learn something new. This one of the errors in my experiment. I did not tell the subjects how they should study the words, I just gave them the words and told them to study them. “It is believed that, in general, encoding for short-term memory storage in the brain relies primarily on acoustic encoding, while for long-term storage is more reliant (although not exclusively on semantic encoding” (Martin “Memory Encoding”). So depending on how the subjects studied, the amount they were able to recalled could increased explaining why everyone who had higher results in Image IV (see Appendix