Lessons

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 8841

Amy wrote: "Ha...I just read last night in GoF (and of course it's at home
with my notes so I can't tell you which chapter) that Double Potions is an
hour and a half their forth year and they seem to only have it Friday
afternoons.  So...does that mean that their regular classes are 45 minutes
long?  I guess that makes sense.  They have to give you a little bit of time
to get from class to class (especially if you're coming from Divination)."
John replied with: "Actually, my classes at school were only 40 minutes
long. It makes sense, since the average attention span is only 20 minutes.
Of course, it's a bit of a shock when you get to university and have
hour-long courses..."

My dad teaches at a school which until recently had lesson of 30 minutes (I
think they had 10 in a day) and so all practical subjects (such as design
technology which he teaches) were at least double periods and in some cases
triple (only for A-levels).

Both my A-level physics and Chemistry had at least one double per week,
which meant one two-hour lesson a week - with no break (my school operated
on a fortnightly timetable which is very confusing). For part of the time I
had chemistry lessons and free periods that meant I could start an
experiment at 9 am (school start time) and keep going until the end of the
day (3:30 pm) as I had no other lessons. Even more oddly was managing to get
a timetable with one lesson from 9 am until 10 am and then have nothing else
for the rest of the day - which meant that I then broke the school rules and
went home!

1-hour sessions are the norm at university, but I have had many tutorials
that have gone over two hours and on one occasion we broke into the fourth
hour (which can only be described as painful!).


Simon