<p>Honestly, I don't learn anything from lectures and I'm in school for about 12 hours almost everyday. Sometimes I study during my breaks but I need more time to study. Should I skip the lectures I don't learn anything from and study on my own? </p>
<p>Anything similar like this happen to you? What did you do about it?</p>
<p>I study during bad lectures. It would be my luck that if I skipped I’d miss an important announcement or something.</p>
<p>I have a course where the prof simply regurgitates everything from the powerpoints. She also posts all of the slides online prior to the class. The book is written pretty well and the powerpoints help a bit so it makes attending the lecture kind of pointless. Attendance is taken in the discussion groups and that’s where homework is collected as well, so that’s the only part of the class that’s really necessary. I kind of feel guilty about skipping quite a few lectures, but I don’t feel as if they’d be of much benefit and I’m always up to speed in the discussions. It seems like everyone in the class feels this way and either skips or just attends out of obligation.</p>
<p>I have a couple classes like this, but they take attendance so I go. One class however, uses an electronic “clicker” to answer questions during class, and the professor can see who clicked in during class. Every class you click in for gets you basically .3 points of extra credit on your final average (up to 5 points for perfect attendance). And he’s done random extra credit twice so far using dice to decide the amount… One day we got .1 of a point, another we got .8 of a point.</p>
<p>When you know if you show up to class every day you get 6 extra points on your final average, it’s easier to go to class and then study less (and get the same grade).</p>
<p>This has happened a couple times to me. Basically the powerpoints were posted and the professor read directly from them. If attendance doesn’t matter and there are no pop assignments/quizzes I don’t go.</p>
<p>I posted right before I went to said class… Due to the nasty conditions outside… Random extra credit day! Half a point to me. :)</p>
<p>I study or doodle. One of my classes is one where the prof just reads off the powerpoint slides, but takes attendance. My binder full of powerpoint printoffs is full of doodles on every page.</p>
<p>Skip or study!</p>