80% attendance is not required now to sit for the exams.

Now i know kids who were bunking other classes to attend your lectures :p.

Hmm… specially for a lazy guy like me to wake up in the morning to attend lectures [damned it still is hard to wake up early], used to make a huge effort to cmoe in your classes.

lol actually was telling some kids the other day how unlucky they were not to have ever tried a lecture with you. LOL.

anywayz, lucky the cdac dudes.

As for the rotin bazar stuff :p didn’t know you’ve started to have spanking fantasies! hahahahaahahaha

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Unfortunately, some students couldn’t care less. They just want to get that bloody piece of paper which says that they have gone through the whole process and earned at least 40% of the marks…

I take my favourite book during the lecture(which I could had read at home at stayed at home) and read examples given, immediately after that the lecturer has explained the concept (by explain I mean reading the slides ). Then in my copybook, merge the best to understand the concept WITH examples, something that will help for revision.

Here’s an interesting quote from a ‘competent’ lecturer:
“I do not consider you as students but people who want to learn. And I am here to help you. So please think and voice out your analytical thoughts. don’t expect rote learning.”

I notice one think in common amongst competent academics, they say:

You come at the University to learn how to think.

Interestingly, Mr. Sadek, PhD, also emphasized on it.

What’s your opinion, given your 10 + years experience in teaching?

Rotin bazar – real or virtual???

[As an aside, I admit that I skipped a lot of classes during my RCC days -- much less so at University. Most of the time, I skipped classes because I found the lecturer (or teacher) not interesting or not competent enough. And most of the time, I went directly home to read a good book on Computer Science. That was before the Internet made books unfashionable ]

There is one point I would like to raise here. {given you mentioned about authority which leads me to think about something else}.

Being a lecturer at UoM previously, did you (for your classes) take attendance into consideration? Does the 80% attendance protocol really exist in practice? It’s indeed to my dismay to see that some students do not attend any lectures nor lab sessions (with the idea that, “this module is pretty easy, and I can learn in on my own”, but however get low marks for class tests/exams) and yet they are allowed a seat for the exams. What is your opinion about this?

Chaya, fortunately I didn’t have to use one today and I don’t think I’ll have to for the remaining weeks. But sometimes you need to show some authority