>>11698949I just finished my B.S. in Physics with a minor in Math with a 3.9 from a small school. I don't intend to pursue higher education at this point and am looking for jobs, have two phone interviews next week,
Honestly, I barely did any dedicated studying. I never just reviewed notes and studied as a routine thing. Process of doing homework you have to review notes and text anyway and homework was usually 2-5 hours per class per week depending. Other than that I might flip over notes for 45 minutes or so the night before an exam.
We were thrown a lot of softballs, though. Especially in the physics department most of our exams other than the final were given as take home exams with open notes and open text. Additionally, a lot of exams we had would require a lot of written explanation. Each problem was written as a small paper, 1-4 pages usually, deriving or explaining the equations used, the line of reasoning behind each step as well as providing explanation of physics principles and physical phenomena at work. I think it's a very weird and non-traditional way of doing exams compared to big schools, but that's how it goes at small, off the wall schools. Because of this our students usually do fairly poorly on standardized tests like GREs, but actually do fairly well in terms of grad school prospects. Not ELITE like MIT and such, save the few notable exceptions but decently well. Our department was one of the smallest at the university, but per capita we produced more undergrads who went on to receive PhDs than any other department on campus.
