truancy (2 Viewers)

[shelley]

so whos lame like me and has already caved into the bad habit of truancy despite it only being the second week? So far ive skipped a latin lecture (i just couldnt be bothered gettin outta bed early enough!) and an english lecture..which was just too boring for words so i just decieded not to go!

 

[Saul]

i've skipped bio lectures, but i can hardly be blamed for that.

 

[Carlito]

i skipped a day because i was feeling sick, so not really truancy i guess, but i cant prove that if they ask lol

 

[Collin]

I think I'm probably the king of truancy here.

I've skipped 3 of 4 1901 (advanced) lectures, one 1901 tutorial, 1 1902 lecture, 1 3 hour biology practical, 2 physics lectures, 2 biology lectures and 2 chemistry lectures.

But a few of those were unintentional, because I WAS actually sick on Monday. Other than that.. didn't turn up because I didn't feel the need ---> conventional truancy, I guess.

 

[abdooooo!!!]

does truancy matter?

can you truant as much as you like without getting penalised?

 

[Suvat]

Depends
accounting you have to attend 50% of tuts to pass
economics they don't care

 

[Collin]

50%? It depends on your subject, mate. For mathematics, it's around 80%.

 

[Canoodle]

yeah already skipped philosophy... habits are forming...i like it

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by Canoodle
yeah already skipped philosophy... habits are forming...i like it

hehe well phillosophy is a subject where u don't even need to go to a single lecture, and u can rock up in an exam and blabber ya way thru to get HD.

 

[Wyvern]

i havent missed any tuts/pracs but i have skipped a few lectures because i find them extremely boring/useless *shrug*

 

[jlh]

actually its really up to the unit...
for econ they are not compulsory.. they are recommended, but not compulsory...
for philosophy you don't have to turn up to anything...
math you have to turn up to at least 80% and same goes with psych......

its also 80% with some of the other arts units....

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Originally posted by Saul
i've skipped bio lectures, but i can hardly be blamed for that.

you have mrs taylor too? I've decided to miss mainly all my bio lectures from now on as well. That Mrs Taylor is so darn boring! I just kept falling asleep in the lecture. And i've skipped a 2 chem lectures too. meh... its no big deal, its only first year.

 

[lengstar]

actually you can skip all the bio lectures and still get a good mark i think because they post up very good notes for BIOL1001. the only thing i might worry about is previous exam questions like they did on thrusday or announcements for notes and stuff that need to be changed. i have to attend 100% of my clinical pracs and visits -_-".

 

[CM_Tutor]

I think you'll find that there is a University wide attendence requirement, and failure to satisfy it usually means they have grounds to fail you. In the vast majority of cases (esp. with lectures) this would never be used provided you pass the exam and all compulsory components - unless you really really pissed someone off (I have never known of this happening). The exception to this is where they really spell out a requirement, take the roll, etc., or where you are required to demonstrate competency - for example, chem prac.

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by melbournian
Wrong on both counts. University admin faculties to require all student in every subject to attend 80% of their tutes (well that is what one of my tutors said).

Wrong. 80% for mathematics, 90% for chemistry.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by JKDDragon
Wrong. 80% for mathematics, 90% for chemistry.

Wrong. 08% for mathematics .....

 

[puffkenny]

I recon all u've gotta do is turn up for tutorials, cause the chance of a lecturer noticing your truanting during a lecture is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%

 

[CM_Tutor]

Originally posted by puffkenny
I recon all u've gotta do is turn up for tutorials, cause the chance of a lecturer noticing your truanting during a lecture is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%

Sorry, but that's not true.

 

[Suvat]

Yeah, it's actually 0.000000001%

Originally posted by melbournian
Wrong on both counts. University admin faculties to require all student in every subject to attend 80% of their tutes (well that is what one of my tutors said).

It is infact 50% for accounting, the tutor made that very clear
For law it's 70% as stated in the course outline

 

[snakeoils]

ive missed about half of my statistics lectures so far, coz they're just so damn boring... ive also walked out of a marketing lecture, and fallen asleep during an art history lecture...

ive attended all my commercial law lectures tho, so go me!