im a senior working on my college applications right now, and i have so many questions about how college actually works.
when students talk about how they are constantly skipping class or have attended barely attended class, how is it that you can still graduate or get credit for this class or even pass the class without hearing the lectures? i dont understand that concept because speaking from a high school perspective attending class is most of work you have to do, its where we recieve our assignments and where we learn everything and it would be near impossible to pass without attending class
what do lecture hours mean, when it says u need 15 lecture hours to pass a semester does that quite literally mean you need to be in person in class for 15 hours in total by the end of the semester?
how many lectures are there for each class every week? with a semester being a few months long 15 total hours of class time sounds short unless each class only meets bi weekly or something
if a student wanted to could they attend every single lecture? or is that something that virtually no one does
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Whether you can pass by skipping all your lectures is a class by class basis. I’ve had profs who will fail you if you miss more than 10 class periods, no questions asked, and profs who don’t grade or care about attendance at all. All you need to pass and graduate is to get passing grades on your transcript, so if a prof doesn’t grade or care about attendance then you could technically pass without ever going to lecture.
It is not rare or even uncommon for people to go to every single lecture. Some people skip often and likewise some people never skip. How many people regularly go also heavily depends on the class. I’ve had one class where only ~20% of the class regularly attended lecture b/c the prof didn’t grade attendance and recorded lectures and I’ve had classes where 100% regularly attended (usually smaller, higher level classes, for example an upper div math major class, where everyone who is in the class wants to be there. Or a lab, where effectively 100% of your grade is attendance).
People who talk about constantly skipping all their classes are honestly just a loud minority. Its not like people brag or complain about *not* skipping class.
You really should try to attend every lecture, even if attendance is not required. Like others said you may miss a couple times if you’re sick or you procrastinated on an assignment and have to skip a class to finish it in time, but generally try to go.
More than that, also get to know your profs. Talk to them after class, ask questions during lecture (only when appropriate though. Dw, you’ll learn what that means), and go to office hours.
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