Do we plan our timetables according to LECTURES or TUTORIALS? (1 Viewer)

[rayy_bann]

Basically my question is the title.

I'm just wanting to know (generally), is it best to decide on our:
1. LECTURE times first and then arrange our TUTORIAL times around our lectures....OR
2. our TUTORIAL times first and then arrange our LECTURE times around our tutorials.
Basically, which has more priority?

Sorry for my ignorance. I know there is no written rule for timetable arranging but I've been getting mixed comments on what would be most preferable.

Thanks guys!

 

[Azure]

Tutorials are harder to get a spot in. You'll get hundreds of other students sitting in on a lecture (and thus much more spots). I would go for the tutorial first.

In terms of importance, both are designed to compliment each other. A lecture is supposed to introduce you to content and a tutorial is meant to follow that up in an environment where you're able to put that content into practise and seek feedback from a tutor.

 

[rayy_bann]

Tutorials are harder to get a spot in. You'll get hundreds of other students sitting in on a lecture (and thus much more spots). I would go for the tutorial first.

In terms of importance, both are designed to compliment each other. A lecture is supposed to introduce you to content and a tutorial is meant to follow that up in an environment where you're able to put that content into practise and seek feedback from a tutor.

Hey thanks for the reply Azure!

I have another question though...

Generally, do people choose a tutorial on the same day as a lecture? If so, do they usually place it before or after a lecture?

For example, say you do Accounting A.

Is it better to do Accounting A Tutorial on the same day as the Accounting A Lecture. If so, before or after the lecture?

Thanks again!

 

[Rafy]

Tutorials are usually a week behind the lectures. They cover the topic from the lecture the week before.

Thus it doesn't really matter which you do first.

 

[rayy_bann]

So does that mean that you may have a lecture of subject A on monday, and on the same day have a tutorial of subject B which has got nothing to do with your lectures on that day?

 

[MrBean1561]

So does that mean that you may have a lecture of subject A on monday, and on the same day have a tutorial of subject B which has got nothing to do with your lectures on that day?

Yes that is correct. I can't recall ever having a lecture and tutorial for one subject on the same day, it was always Subject A lecture and Subject B tutorial/practical for me.

 

[rayy_bann]

Yes that is correct. I can't recall ever having a lecture and tutorial for one subject on the same day, it was always Subject A lecture and Subject B tutorial/practical for me.

Oh ok thanks! Btw for one of my subjects I have a 'practical'. Is that treated the same as a lecture/tutorial in terms of importance?

 

[MrBean1561]

Oh ok thanks! Btw for one of my subjects I have a 'practical'. Is that treated the same as a lecture/tutorial in terms of importance?

Overall i'd say so but for my STAT170 class last semester they did not record attendance and it was not compulsory, but it allowed us to use what we learnt from the lecture and do some hands-on work at the computer labs. So i'd say it definitely is important, especially since an assignment might require you to do something similar to the practical. (The practical was definitely helpful for the STAT170 assignment in my opinion.)

 

[rayy_bann]

Overall i'd say so but for my STAT170 class last semester they did not record attendance and it was not compulsory, but it allowed us to use what we learnt from the lecture and do some hands-on work at the computer labs. So i'd say it definitely is important, especially since an assignment might require you to do something similar to the practical. (The practical was definitely helpful for the STAT170 assignment in my opinion.)

Yeah I'm going to have to do STAT170 as part of my commerce major too. I decided to choose Finance as my major but may move to International Business next year so I did STAT170 as both majors required that. But seriously, what is this subject? And why does it require a 'practical'. I'm more the 'essay' type person and with this being my only 'practical' subject, I don't know what to expect...

 

[MrBean1561]

Yeah I'm going to have to do STAT170 as part of my commerce major too. I decided to choose Finance as my major but may move to International Business next year so I did STAT170 as both majors required that. But seriously, what is this subject? And why does it require a 'practical'. I'm more the 'essay' type person and with this being my only 'practical' subject, I don't know what to expect...

It's just the introductory statistics course, it's not as hard as people make it out to be as long as you study and do practice questions on MathXL (this will be explained to you in the first lecture, a lot of people only do the quizzes on MathXL but I recommend doing the practice questions for the chapter as it is a good way to study and it really helped because I was able to practice as many times as I wanted and maintain an overall distinction going into the final). For the practical, you use a program called "Minitab", and you just do step-by-step activities from your course notes (easy stuff) at first you make bar graphs, pie charts etc. it just follows the main parts of each lecture from the previous week so you are able to put what you learn into practice.

If you have any problems, you can just go the the numeracy centre and they will help you for anything you don't understand (the numeracy centre was a godsend for when I did ACST101). Plus it is also easier to get help for STAT170 there as most of the tutors at the centre specialise in stats.

 

[emmalinarina_]

Tutorials are harder to get a spot in. You'll get hundreds of other students sitting in on a lecture (and thus much more spots). I would go for the tutorial first.

Yes tutorials are harder to get a spot in because they generally don't have a class limit on the lectures and usually only have one or two time slots to choose from whereas tutorials have class limits and therefore have many different times to choose from. In my case, everyone usually picks the tutorials straight after the lectures so that they don't have to go home and come back later. When I organise my timetable, I usually get all the lectures sorted out first and then pick tutorials that best fit around them. If a tutorial and lecture clash it's better to go to the tutorial because your attendance contributes to your marks and the lectures are usually recorded anyway.