Does your University or College take attendance?

[Fifty]

Most classes don't, some do. I have one class this quarter in which the professor takes attendance, and that's just because it's a highly discussion-oriented class.

 

[Gr3yL3gion]

Mine did, but I just don't give a damn and have my friends took my attendance for me.

Tutorials though, is another matter.

 

[BCLG100]

They do take attendance but as the swipe card attendance thing is broken its just a piece of paper so its pretty easy to get a mate to sign you in if your that worried.

 

[GenMarshall]

Where I go, they do take attendance. However the method varies from professor (先&#29983 to professor　(先&#29983.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

no attendance, no obligatory homework - just some exams the end of every semester

Sign me up for that...

My university takes attendance, and to tell you the truth, it's childish.

 

[Sophie 378]

Mine doesn't for lectures. Labs usually have either an attendance sheet floating around which you're supposed to sign before you leave (biochemistry), or a system where you have to display your work and notebook to one of the staff and get it signed before you leave (chemistry). Tutorials: if you don't turn up to a tutorial of three people, it will definitely be noticed - and you'll get a nasty email. There's no seating plan or calling out of names to check if you're there or not, though.

 

[Shadylookin]

depends on the professor. usually it's a reward system though, where if you show up a certain percentage you get bonus points. The only exception for me is philosophy which is a very discussion based class and requires attendance or you take a lower grade.

 

[MrCynical]

Never for lectures. Except for maybe the first few lectures of the year I doubt there's more than 85-90% of the students who are supposed to be at any given lecture actually there. However it's the students who will pay the price with poorer results (assuming the lectures are of value), so there doesn't seem an awful lot of point in an attendance system.

Tutorials are a different matter. It's rather obvious when someone's missing from a group of two people, and it doesn't get tolerated for long (or frankly at all).

 

[Eli]

Hell no. I would switch a uni if this was the case.

My entire method of learning leans on the axiom that I can study alone twice to thrice as fast as going to lectures. For example, in the last semester I had 16 weekly hours, not counting labs. I think I've visited about 5 hours in the entire semester.

So far, so good. Great grades, lots of free time.

 

[Myzenium]

At my pro school, the profs knew each student. Small class sizes. Each prof would very quietly take attendance while the class chatted.

 

[willemvanoranje]

In my university they don't at mass lectures. In the small groups attendance is obligatory, so there they do.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Very few take attendace, but some professors do like to.

 

[Zarn]

It depends on the class. Usually they don't.

 

[shortguy]

Discussion sections generally do, and lectures generally don't.

 

[Fetus4188]

Mostly no, although the discussion section for my history course does. I think it is more typical for humanities than the sciences to take attendance.

 

[Speedo]

Up to the prof except for a few lower level classes (mainly english) which have department attendance requirements.

Atm I have 2 profs that are anal about it, 2 that took it a few times earlier in the semester, and 1 that doesn't give a crap.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

My professors take attendance, because our class sizes are around 20 or so. It's a community college.

 

[QuoVadisNation]

I honestly had a few professors that have taken attendance. Usually, there were two reasons for this. The first was if the professor had a really lax course and needed to fill in their students' grades somehow. Although attendance usually only counted for 5-10%. The second reason would if the professor was extremely anal-retentive. I'm taking one class right now where two absences means failure.

Thanks a lot, jerk!

 

[Mise]

Nope .

 

[Abaddon]

They did if the first couple of classes.. more to make sure everyone was registered on the courses they wanted!