Lectures (1 Viewer)

[Vylen]

Let me just check.. if you have 4 lectures a week for a subject, in reality you only have to attend 2 or 3..... or something? right?.. heh

 

[MedNez]

You're meant to attend everything on your timetable.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

Your 'reality' maybe different to everyone else. In theory, you are supposed to attend to every class on your timetable, as MedNez pointed out.

In reality, most people will end up skipping classes - but that is entirely up to the student. In a lot of cases, they skip the lectures because the lecturer is not very good.

I may as well point out to you now, that doing well, even passing in university is not that difficult - its all about effort and consistency. If you want to skip, fine. But don't complain if you fail.

 

[Vylen]

ok thanks... cause a lot of people have talked about skipping lectures but no one has actually mentioned about some lectures being redundant... till i came across one users post mentioning that a lecturer may tell students that some classes will in fact be "repeats" of others... so i was uncertain.. plus my sister was harrassing me about it

 

[kaitoufion]

Repeated lectures won't show out in your timetable

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

Yes, some lectures are repeated. This means that a different stream, will pretty much have an identical lecture ie. same slides, lecturer, same content. So yes, you can skip lectures if you plan to go to a repeat lecture, althought I must note that not all lectures are repeats. In some cases, they are different lecturers, and might be behind, or ahead of the coursework.

 

[Lundy]

You will notice a trend every semester where your lectures will begin chock full of eager young students but as the weeks go by, less and less people show up.

 

[Affinity]

try not to skip any, but again.. it also depemds on your subjects.. some could be studied independently

 

[Affinity]

... that doing well, even passing in university is not that difficult

Now I am beginning to worry

 

[Vylen]

heh, soon we're all gonna become paranoid

 

[Gillianna]

Do we need to bring sound recorders to lectures or tutorials? I've heard that the Drs/ Professors talk and write incredibly fast!
Do we also need to bring laptops?

 

[redslert]

Do we need to bring sound recorders to lectures or tutorials? I've heard that the Drs/ Professors talk and write incredibly fast!
Do we also need to bring laptops?

No and No
Wait till uni starts and then decide.

 

[Vylen]

i think its more of an issue of convenience than a requirement chiseled in stone...

if you're lazy or think you cant keep up, then bring a recroder... that sort of thing

 

[DanielleM]

hey, l already know that we dont attend tutorials on the first week, but do we have to attend labs if we have one???

 

[jemsta]

hey, l already know that we dont attend tutorials on the first week, but do we have to attend labs if we have one???

Labs are compulsory if you wanna gain some extra marks
tutorials are also compulsory but lectures are not
but do u really want to skip lectures....unless u have to finish off assignments and stuff

 

[kaitoufion]

Also keep in mind that in most subjects, to pass the course you must attend at least 80% (some 75%) of tutorials/labs.

So basically, you can't afford to miss more than twice ^.^"
Therefore attending tutorials/labs is not only for the mark

 

[redslert]

hey, l already know that we dont attend tutorials on the first week, but do we have to attend labs if we have one???

That will depend what course you are taking. Some courses particularly first year science (Chem, bio) require students to attend labs on first week for intro etc.

 

[§eraphim]

eg. Discrete Maths has 1 tute in wk 1.

 

[underthesun]

So far, out of 3 INFS subjects i've attended, only one of them had a lecture that was worth attending. That lecturer has left for sydney university though.

 

[jonathan__]

Is there a minimum % or number of lectures that must be attended tho?
Don't they make online versions of the lecture?