Study Hours - Pandemic Edition

Note: I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here I go!

Extra note: Some of these things don't apply to some of y'all, but just keep reading and maybe give our your own opinions from your perspective ^^ highly appreciated!

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Some lil' background - I'm a computer science student in my final year of secondary school (in case if y'all don't know, secondary education is the last stage of mandatory education in Malaysia and some other countries out there) and I am forced into taking pure science subjects as well, such as chemistry and physics (smh). After negotiating with my teachers, I'm now allowed to only attend school on days where I'm able to due to transportation and health issues, so I'm mostly self-studying at home now.

Aight, on to the main part:

For most people, there are six to seven hours of school per five days in a week - that's around 35 hours of school every week. In a smaller scale, in our 24 hours a day, we have roughly nine hours of not-school (assuming people take the ideal sleeping hours of eight). Nine hours, okay. Probably gotta do some homework and other school projects, so maybe we have a lil' less than nine hours wholly to ourselves?

In the case of not being at school for the whole day (whether you're unable to attend school for a valid reason or it is during the weekends), you kinda have the ability to control and manage your time better. Especially these days during the pandemic, we're all... uh, basically stuck at home for most of the time, anyway.

For students who function better at home, this is probably one of the most miraculous opportunities, like, in all school years ever. Finally we can apply all the self-study tips we've been reading and watching a lot from YouTube, right? Finally we can make prettier notes and we can snack up while studying without any teacher eyeing you for once! (Hey, we gotta see the silver lining during these dark times, ya know. It's for mental health.)

But now that we're not bound to school schedules and pretty much have the most control of our hours in a day...

what will our study hours look like?

I've been thinking about this for a while now. Instead of only having nine hours worth of control with seven of them spent at school, we now have probably up to 16 hours at home to ourselves - we wouldn't wanna spend seven hours of studying at home too, right? That'll just end up like any other school day (and that kinda sucks if I do say so myself)

Some people have it that 10 hours is the ideal period of study time; which is, for a lot of people, the near equivalent to hell. Some people have it that you only need around four hours of productive and efficient studying a day. That's pretty cool ngl, but I'm sure for some, it's a little too short to get anything done at all.

I myself tried different lengths of time for self-studying at home, given resources online and ones provided by the teachers through email etc.. I'll probably end up revising my study hours forever, but I'm kinda working well with more or less than five hours a day.

In those five hours, I'd only study up to two subjects, and make as much progress as possible. I just study lots and lots until I get a lil' tired or hungry, then I take breaks. I'd then log the time into my planner for some future tweaking in my schedule. There are also days where I don't study at all! Since I study in the weekends too, every day is as though a weekday so I can take any one of them and make it an "away from the books" day. In itself, I don't engange in any studying at all and just spend it with doing my hobbies, binging videos, sleeping, eating properly and so much more. I can even do... nothing? Yeah, just simply lazing around throughout the whole day.

Of course, the amount of time I spend releasing steam depends on the intensity of my study hours. I'd say, though, that my ratio of time spent is surprisingly a 1:1, making my days balanced in the end. This way, I can actually feel productive for once yet still be able to enjoy my days.

Finally, people can be different - other students could have things differently when it comes to their study hours and the intensity of their hours. How many study hours do you spend in a day? And what is your time ratio? I'd like to hear your opinions and ways of studying, too! Maybe we can take away a few great tips?

Thank you for your attention! (I apologize for these whack-long paragraphs) Have a great day >.<