Does the "one subject a day" approach work?

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If you took four classes and devoted one class a day to a subject (with some exception of coarse), can you learn the material as well as a NT would with the conventional "dabble a little everywhere" approach? What is your experience?

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I think so! I'm enrolled in an online school with four classes (art history, world history, English, and sociology). It's this year that I've started the course a day approach, and it's much better. It's much less overwhelming. I find that by being able to give all my attention to one course at a time, I can actually retain information by learning it all at once, versus, say, learning about the start of WWII in history one day, breaking it up with mannerist art, analyzing poems, home life across countries, and then having to switch right back to learning about WWII the next day.
By being able to read the ~40 pages of required reading on a subject, doing a paper or two on it, and taking a quiz all in the same day, I've spent ~8 hours of devotion to one subject, meaning it actually sticks with me. Likewise, it gives wiggle room on harder subjects for me. If i'm taking a math course (which isn't my strong suit), but I'm taking art history (a special interest), I know I can get art history done for the week before noon and be able to devote the rest of the day on extra math time. Does that make sense?
I know I learn material as well as a NT would, if not better, because I can have all day to learn all I can about one subject rather than being overwhelmed with four classes all with different due dates and workloads each day.

I think it would be helpful for someone who has issues juggling obligations, but if you can't handle more than one class/subject each day, you won't be good to most anyone in the workforce. If anything, college is more forgiving than the working world.

I never had a big issue, but I had my week calendar posted on the door so I could see where I needed to be and when. Organization was how I managed to cope.

It's better to have multiple subjects in a day; this prepares people for life later.

I think not for me, because when working on a subject, I need time after learning a new thing to let my brain get used to the idea and really get it, so it wouldn't be good if I try to cram too much into my brain over one day. Also, I noticed that new ideas often arise after learning something in smaller pieces over longer times, not a bunch on one day. There needs to be brain digestion time between new things. I think it is best if I focus on 2-3 subjects per day.

I think one subject per day or one subject for a week or something like that is a very efficient way to study. I'm preferred to study that way myself and have not had any difficulties in work as a result of it. I actually did self-paced independent-study courses for a lot of my college work, which allowed me to do one subject per month or so, then complete that course and move on to a new subject. It worked great for me! I am NT, so it's not solely a study method used by people with ASD. I recently read an article about a girl who graduated college in her teens because her family had all their kids study one subject at a time, and the increased efficiency allowed her to get many years ahead in her schooling: http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/Youn ... pedes.aspx

That being said, most jobs do require the ability to multitask to some extent and to focus on multiple different things throughout the day, so you could use college as a time to practice those skills; however, as far as learning the college courses, studying 1 subject a day is a great way to learn.

I think this will vary person to person.

I tend to do much better in classes that I have every day as opposed to classes that only meet once or twice a week. (I'm in college) When I have a class that meets less often than daily, I tend not to spend any time or effort on it on the days I don't have it. Plus, once a week classes are often much longer than daily ones. (twice or even three times as long) Since a lot of aspies have attention deficit issues, you can see how that could go bad.

I disagree. That really depends on what you're planning to do.

My goal is to be a researcher, and from what I understand, most researchers focus only on one subject for months, if not years. From what my Dad says, computer program designers have a similar schedule to researchers (though tech support gets a variety of topics, and many computer programming jobs include tech support as well).

Plus, for some jobs, everything in the job description falls under a single school subject. For example, if you're a chef, you'll do nothing but cooking every day, all day. Sure, you'll cook different meals, but it's still all cooking.