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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Most, if not all, of your grade in college comes from tests, usually one midterm and one final. Some professors might have assignments or attendance be part of the grade, but this is less likely for those 200-person intro classes.
Those classes are full of people only taking it to fulfill a requirement, they’re way harder to take attendance or grade assignments for, and the professors themselves usually care much more about higher-level classes with students who care about the material, or their grad students who they spend way more time with.
Many large classes will have a *discussion* or *lab* component, that meets in much smaller groups, and is led by a TA. It’d be hard to pass a class never coming to those.
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