Are you ALLOWED to skip lectures? (1 Viewer)

[16021991]

Just wondering - I've heard yes. That it's tutorials that are compulsory....

Right?

 

[Omie Jay]

no, you can skip lectures, or rock up late, or leave halfway thru, no one cares.

tutes usually require your attendance. Only some dont, and the ones that do, they either have marks for class attendance and/or participation, or you need to attend at least 80% or you'll get a fail in the course, and this also determines if when you ask a lecturer for help after class hours, whether they wanna help you or not (if you havnt attended the tutes then they wont give you any face2face time after class hours).

 

[Linear]

Actually, a few lecturers might say something about you entering late or leaving early... But I'd say this is only a rare thing.

 

[16021991]

Well there you go

Very informative guys, thanks !!

 

[kevinx2]

i've had a subject where attendance was taken at lectures, though i still stand by the thought it was merely scare tactic and nonentheless it's was a very very exclusive case

 

[dawdlex3]

i've had a subject where attendance was taken at lectures, though i still stand by the thought it was merely scare tactic and nonentheless it's was a very very exclusive case

Same case for me. More than half of the people still didn't bother turning up even with attendance-taking. Don't think they intentionally failed anyone on that account.

 

[TehAzner]

For those budding lawyers at UNSW this year, Law lectures require 80% attendance. However skip seminars (we call them this instead of lectures) at your own risk as your impression on the lecturer will be tarnished and your class participation marks will be affected due to the small class sizes in first year.

 

[Ethanescence]

My ARTS1030 (English) lectures are supposedly compulsory.

 

[veloc1ty]

My ARTS1030 (English) lectures are supposedly compulsory.

ARTS1030/1031 have some of the most skippable lectures around. They won't be checking attendance either.

 

[Sokolov]

Engineering tutorials can be skipped at any time but sometimes tests are held in them.
Some of them don't give a shit when you walk out.
You get no bonus marks for tutorial attendance but you should attend just in case you want to get a Pass Conceded instead of Fail.

Just wondering - I've heard yes. That it's tutorials that are compulsory....

Right?

You are majoring in linguistics which I did until I realised how horrible and conceited some Arts students were as mentioned by talkid34 also.
Tutorial attendance makes up 10% of your final grade.

 

[rx34]

For those budding lawyers at UNSW this year, Law lectures require 80% attendance. However skip seminars (we call them this instead of lectures) at your own risk as your impression on the lecturer will be tarnished and your class participation marks will be affected due to the small class sizes in first year.

Hey there, does USyd has a min 80% attendance for its law lectures? Any idea
Not that I will miss any.

 

[tallkid34]

Hey there, does USyd has a min 80% attendance for its law lectures? Any idea
Not that I will miss any.

Go ask in the USYD Law forum.

 

[rx34]

Meh the usyd forum is so dead compared to the lively unsw one.

 

[tommykins]

Google it.

 

[TehAzner]

Hey there, does USyd has a min 80% attendance for its law lectures? Any idea
Not that I will miss any.

Hey there rx34, I just asked a friend of mine who goes to USYD and does Commerce/Law. He told me that "it is possible to get below 50% for the attendance/participation mark", so I guess it's not as strict as UNSW

Lucky you XDD

 

[kevinx2]

in UNSW lectures skip you

 

[Sokolov]

in UNSW lectures skip you

Yeah that actually happened once so I left 15 minutes after it was supposed to start eh.

Not to mention one of my lectures last year was simply a poor quality video played to us, no questions asked literally.