u must go to "state" wrote:
just another guy wrote:Why is your grade tied to class attendance? I really don't understand this concept. In college attendance has no effect on the grade.
You must have gone to some crappy state school where classes were all just big lectures where 300 monkeys sit in a room playing with themselves while a professor tries to put basic concepts into terms that his simian audience will understand. If you go to a school with actual smart people who prefer logical argument over throwing feces at one another, a lot of the education takes the form of small group discussions. In such settings, attendance is important because the learning is a result of participating in the discussion with other intelligent people.
Despite your own experience, not all colleges base grades entirely off of how you filled in the bubbles on various scantron forms.
You must be a liberal artist, because almost none of my engineering, math, or econ classes had an attendance requirement and class sizes were 20-40. You're SUPPOSED to have other things to do in college every once in a while. It's not supposed to be high school part 2.