Table 6.

Comparison of near-work activity between academically challenging school and regular school

	Grades 1-3		Grades 4-6		Grades 7-9
	Academically challenging	Regular	Academically challenging	Regular	Academically challenging	Regular
Study time in class (minutes /day)	200	160	240	200	280	280
Self-study time at school (minutes /day)	0	0	0	0	120	60
Time for homework after class (minutes /day)	105	50	135	75	260	120
Time for computer classes (minutes /week)	60	0	60	0	120	0
Total time (minutes /day)	317	210	435	275	684	460

Study time in class: times when the teachers were actually lecturing in class.

Self-study time at school: sometimes teachers gave additional lectures while other times the students studied themselves.

Homework time outside class: times that the students spent outside school to finish up homework.