Total amount of years of education with semester gaps?

[kkrank]

Hello,

There really is 1 question that stumps me at the moment, IMM0008 Total amount years of education and I can't find anyone who has been in my situation.

For my bachelor's degree, I have read the credits equivilant of 3 years full time studies which is the normal here, but i had two semesters off completly to work and also had to do a 4 week summer class at the end to earn some missing credits before i could apply for my degreee, so it has taken me a total of 5 "school years". Meaning i started studying in fall of 2011 and my degree was issued to me in fall of 2016. But as I mentioned I had two spring semesters off + i did an extra class during the summer of 2016,
so have been at universety during for every school year, but two of them was only for 1 semester.

DO I put in 3 years of education for my degree as that is the amount of credit i read or the 5 years as that is the amount of school years it took me to complete it?

Thank you so much for any advise!

 

[LotusLeodis]

I think it is the amount of time that is equivalent to the degree in terms of EFFORT, rather than ELAPSED time. Most bachelor degrees are 3 or 4 years, depending on country. So you could say it was an x no of years degree, completed over x amount of time.