Uni life will be completely different to high school life. To start, no uniforms and no compuslary attendance is required. You will have much more freedom to do the things you wanted to do. E.g have a afternoon beer with mates at a local pub during happyhours.

Normally with each subjects, it will involve a 1 or 2 hour lectures per week and 1 or 2 hours for tutorials. With psychology, you might have labs with will add an addition 3 hours to your weekly timetable.

With study committments it differs between people, when mid-year exams or assignments are about to be due, you will tend to be studying alot. however, any other times it can be a bit of a cruise.

Just a general idea. Normally, the first few weeks of the semester is easy, however as weeks goes on, your work load will increase dramatically and you will need to start to utilise these lunchtime hours to catch up with readings and finish assignments.

hope this helps.

Hey james,

• For Psychology at Swinburne University Contact hours are 12 hours per week which is composed of lab sessions, lectures and tutorials. Therefore you would be looking at anywhere between 12-17 hours for other institutions.

This equates to maybe attending University for 3-4 days a week, though depending on the capacity of the class you can squeeze it into 3 days, but if classes are full you may be forced to go 4 times a week. Remember you are not obliged to attend every lecture or tutorial, at University the powerpoints which are displayed in class are always uploaded on the Uni's intranet, but of course you should still attend to understand the content!

• In University you do not have to study like VCE. In VCE you has 2-3 SACS per week, a random test here and there, homework, questions, practise take home SACs etc. This ended up meaning "study" every day, or any space which would have been for doing relaxation.

In Uni, you really only need to do the first and second semester exams, and only a couple of tests in class, many courses have take home tests! And then again some courses have a single test=70% of your semesters mark.

In summary, just reading the lecture notes before-hand and then again after+reading the applicable textbook chapter+the designated questions=success.

• Weekends without classes? Classes are usually on week-days, thus every week you have class, just like highschool.

• YES! Of course! I have attended open days, had uni students come into school, know some uni students from outside of school, and all of them have explained how much free time you have at University. Considering many Uni's are near, within or around the city you are conviently able to access many places, hang outs, clubs, bars, restaurants, museums, attractions and so on. As i said in my prior dot point, you do not have homework 24/7. Doing Psychology does involve work outside of class, but utilise your time well, really finish ASAP and not leave it till the last day and you will have HOURS to enjoy every day. You only attend 3-4 days a week!

And don't forget the months worth of holidays! End of year holidays go from October/November till March!