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Aim of the study. The coronavirus pandemic has forced different learning institutions to implement remote studies as part of their daily routines. Before the pandemic, remote studies were mainly cho-sen to ease students’ everyday life and planning of the studies. This study aims to find out how class teacher students experience remote studies. The study focuses on observing which aspects of remote studies the class teacher students feel negatively or positively about. These results may be useful in the future when class teacher studies are being planned. The theoretical framework of this study is based on a constructivist concept of learning. Methods. The data of this study was gathered by semi-structured theme interviews. Six class teacher students participated in these interviews. The interviewed students had experiences of both the tradi-tional studies and the remote studies. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The gathered data was analyzed by using the theory-based content analysis. Results and conclusions. The results of the interviews were examined in relation to previous studies about remote studies. This research found out that the class teacher students experienced remote studies very differently. The students felt that remote studies required a lot of self-discipline and self-control. Due to remote studies the amount of interaction and feedback was mainly experienced as too little, and the quality of interaction and feedback as weakened. The abundance of autonomy of remote studies was seen both as a positive and freedom-increasing activity and, at the same time, as an activity that increases the challenges and unpleasantness of learning. Remote studies had a positive and negative effect on the development of teamwork skills. The learning environment was found to be an important factor of pleasantness of remote studies. Some participants wanted to study at the university, while some wanted to study at home. The results of this study were mainly in line with previous studies about remote studies.