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Why Are College Students Studying Less Nowadays?

The biggest question on people’s minds at the moment is – is college too easy now? Are people passing the exams and the courses with too little effort? Studies have shown that the college students of today are having to spend much less time studying than their historical counterparts were; in many cases, the amount of study time per week has gone down by nearly a full ten hours, from twenty four hours a week to fifteen. Several students who were interviewed as part of the surveys admitted that they thought the workload would be heavier, and particularly that they thought it would be heavier than in school. Continue reading Why Are College Students Studying Less Nowadays?