This pressure, however, can become an important factor in learning how to work efficiently and productively in order to meet deadlines. By taking only one class at a time, pressure is reduced at the end of each term since there is only one final to prepare for. This depends on the class and the student. Some courses are more demanding than others and some students take more time to study than others. Students seem to spend between two and five hours each day outside of class working on papers, group projects, reviewing notes, and reading assignments.
Most courses have a midterm and a final exam.
Some have additional tests between those times. A final paper may take the place of a final test. Foreign studies take place for one term or more. Examples of Cornell-sponsored overseas studies include a geology class that spent a month studying in the Caribbean and a politics class that went to Brazil. Every other year there is a Shakespeare literature course taught in England for one block.