Psychosis in general means you're not more or less in touch with reality.

The symptoms of schizophrenia depend on the type of schizophrenia, but commonly people think auditory/visual hallucinations, weird thoughts (like somebody is controlling your thoughts or putting thoughts in your head) and maybe even your academic skills might become poorer as the hallucinations etc are taking your energy.

This is what people commonly think.. Psychosis manifests itself in many forms. I had the symptoms I described and thought I wasn't psychotic. It's hard to tell sometimes, because you can't shut the hallucinations out, so they become reality.

Apologies for the scattered thoughts. Just my two cents. Hope it was of at least some help.

Katie

PS. If you go to Wikipedia (http://www.en.wikipedia.org) and type schizophrenia in the search box you will get a good article on schizophrenia, it also includes a list of the symptoms.