How much of your assigned reading did you actually read?

Question

When it came to using textbooks in non-majors classes (i.e. your science class when you're a business major or marketing class when you're a biology major), how much of the reading that was assigned by your professor did you actually read? How helpful was your actual textbook?

Answer 1

Although, in my last semester the only non-major calls I took (cognitive psych) I did not always read everything, I'll say that I should have, mainly because I'm at school to learn.

What is a world where people running the science companies don't care about the science the company does or the physicists don't know or care about the literary tradition of India or the musicians have never heard of The Republic? I'd say its a dull world to live and work in.

To be educated means not merely to know about part of the world but know about that part, understand how it is linked to other parts, and most of all have the thirst to learn more about everything. Put effort into those classes. Its not always easy, but take the time, I know that I would have loved to 4.0 rather than 3.5 the class, which would have taken only say one more hour a week for reading. You don't want to say the same at the end.

As for book prices, science books can be pricey, they're big. So buy it used if you can.

Answer 2

It seems like you're trying to get out of reading.

It's true that, in college, you are assigned a lot of reading material. One of the skills you can develop is getting through it in a short period of time.

Depending on how much detail about the reading you want to retain, you don't necessarily have to read every word. Textbooks are written in a way that they have a lot of redundancy, so you can often figure out the main idea without having to search the text with a fine-toothed comb.

Beware of skipping readings completely, though. Generally, when you're assigned the reading material, you can be held responsible for that material on the test. Not to mention that you're actually in college to learn something.

Answer 3

I dint read much of the assigned reading for any classes and the books sure came in handy the night before the tests

Answer 4

It depends on the class and how much they teach from the book or if their lectures are different than the book. I try to do as much as I can but things always come up so I never read everything I am supposed to.

Answer 5

i read 3 chapters out of the 20 that were assigned for speech. we took notes in class so reading wasnt too helpful. math books a just about pointless to even bother reading...its all foreign to me!!!

Answer 6

i read all of them...i feel that i always have the luck of getting called on if i dont read anything