Is it possible to work full-time and study full-time, or would it be too stressful?

Gleeful

I worked 25 hours a week (3 days) during my final year at University. It was hard work but I managed it! Came out with a 2:1 as well.

Poppy9

Is it only for 1 academic year you are planning on working FT and studying FT?

If so I'd say it's possible. A course only runs from September to June, which is 10 months. Yes it will be hard work but keep focused and organised and you can do it.

I spent a year working full time over 5 days and doing a correspondence course which timetabled me in for an average of 20 hours study a week. Once I got in the habit of spending a couple of hours every night when I came home from work studying and getting up early to work on Saturday and Sunday morning I was fine. Keeping to a timetable is key IMO.

paulwellerfan

how many hours is your access course???
how many days is that?
sorry if i have missed the point
i did access
and i did uni
and i worked

alyth

it's tough but it can be done - I work 20 hours a week and only have 6 hours of class tutorials, but I could study 600 hours a week and would never learn everything I have to learn - although I am slightly obsessive about my studying!

Work it out this way - how many semesters do you have? My uni is a bit weird, and I have 2 15 weeks semesters in each academic year. with a reading/holiday week in about week 5 of each semester, but a reading week and then 2 weeks of exams, my class time to be honest is so minimal it's barely worth bothering to go in!

my degree is in history & politics so there is so so much reading and research to be done. But I look on it as it's essentially only about 20 weeks of the year that I have to struggle, and boy do I struggle - I finish work at 9pm on a Sat night, will study until perhaps 2am, but then during the week I have 2 full days off in which to do in what I call the hard core writing up of essays, the rest of the time is used for what I call gentle studying, research, reading through academic magazines, reading newspapers, etc.

It should be noted however that I have absolutely no social life during my semesters, and at the moment I am buying new clothes rather than ironing the ones I have! Only you can decide, but as others have said it can be done - I'm lucky, I have no dependants, only myself and the dog, so I throw myself into my studying for the 20 weeks.