How much work do students have to do for a tutorial course?
A tutorial in Oxford is one, individual meeting. A course of tutorials lasts eight weeks (eight tutorials). Students will generally write eight essays over the course of a term for each tutorial course. Essays are always measured in words and tend to be about 2,000 to 3,000 words in length (approximately 8-10 pages). There is also a substantial reading list that students must complete before they can prepare the weekly essay, sometimes amounting to some twenty or more books and articles each week for each tutorial. Usually students have two tutorials each week for the twenty-four weeks of the three academic terms.
