<p>Are they graded and is attendence taken, or do you just show if you feel you need it? My Friday is looking pretty pleasant if I don't have to go to recitations :)</p>
<p>For math you genearally need to go. For humanities you need to go. For lots of other courses you can skip.</p>
<p>Harder to beg your TA for grade clemency when you don’t even give them the respect of showing up for their classes…</p>
<p>Just grab the non-friday recitations…they do exist and they are sweeeeet :)</p>
<p>I only went to my MATH114 recitation three times since it was 9AM on Monday mornings. It had no effect on my grade – I would’ve done terribly either way.
Recitations are very different from department to department and even class to class. For example, some MATH sections have quizzes in recitation, so you have to go. Others, like mine, had no requirements. ECON recitations are not really mandatory, but it’s advisable to go since they are very helpful. Every recitation I’ve had in a social science class has been mandatory since there has been some sort of participation grade. Social science recitations are almost ALWAYS more interesting than lectures, so there’s really no reason you would want to skip anyway.</p>
<p>Also, in any class where you have a recitation, the recitation is the grade bearing part of the course. That means that your recitation instructor (the TA) will be the person grading your papers and exams and eventually giving you your grade. It’s advisable to develop a cordial relationship with your TA, as they will be more likely to listen if you have a legitimate reason for a grade change.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot 
I have them for Econ001, Chem101, and Math114, so I imagine I’ll be going to them. Just curious, what exactly is the “lab lecture” that you have to sign up for with a lab?</p>
<p>chem lab lecture is where they teach some of the theory that may directly apply to a lab (and which may be not covered in such detail in the regular chem class lecture)</p>
<p>but personally i stopped going to 053 lecture after the first few, then never went to 054 lecture - they do give the midterms during those sessions though</p>
<p>I know the MGMT recitation is really important (after all, we do the big project with people in our rec), but what exactly do we actually do in the recitation? Do we have quizzes/mid terms in MGMT (rec or not) or just projects or…yeah. I’d love to know! Thanks! (also my mgmt rec is my only class on Friday, so…)</p>
<p>Whether or not a recitation is required depends entirely on the course. Acct recitations, for example, are basically just office hours.</p>
<p>For MGMT 100 you’ll have some discussions in recitation that relate to the lectures. For example, you’ll do a small-group activity in one recitation (a game involving taking pictures) and then the following lecture will be a discussion about it.</p>
<p>MGMT is not something you want to skip out on. Not showing up will effectively nuke your grade. My MGMT 101 class, for instance, had a participation grade weighted by attendance and class discussion. Missing more than three classes meant you’d lose half of your participation points.</p>
<p>In MGMT 100, you’ll go through a series of activities in the recitations and talk about them in lecture. Not showing up will also reflect poorly on you in the eyes of your TA and your group members (after all, you do “rank” each other later. The guys who rarely show up get hammered). It’s really a team-oriented course, and so people will complain if you’re not pulling your weight.</p>
<p>Math recitations are also generally worth going to because of the quizzes. Sometimes I found it useful to see something explained a different way that wasn’t in the book. </p>
<p>In general, though, go to the required recitations. If a recitation isn’t required in any way, go if you are not 100% confident with the current material.</p>
<p>My general view on participation grades: They’re in your favor. I’ve noticed that my grades have always been better in courses I’ve showed up to/been heavily involved in. If a class doesn’t have participation points, and you choose to take advantage of that by not showing up, you risk missing out on important things that come back to bite you later. It’s in your favor to show up whenever you can, and so participation points are really freebie-points in disguise. This means that if you botch something else up in the class, it won’t hurt you nearly as much as it would have had the course not included the participation grade component.</p>
<p>Oh, I had/have no intentions of skipping MGMT recs (or recs in general). I was just curious what they entailed!</p>