Talk:Saylor.org's Comparative Politics

As of today (3/8/2013) this text has 3,516,295 bytes, which translates into 1172 pages (3000 bytes per page); at 20 pages per hour reading speed, it should take the average student 60 hours to read the current content.

A typical 3 credit semester course is 52 classroom hours; students are expected to spend 1-3 hours studying outside of class for every hour spent in class, making a semester equal to 156 hours of study. If you subtract approximately 10 hours, which is used during the semester for review and exams, you have a goal to cover approximately 145 hours of material.

At 60 hours, this text is approximately 50% complete. Danarwaller (discuss • contribs) 18:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)