<p>Or your professor's/TA's policy? I'm just asking because my university allows whatever professor or TA that is running the lab decide their own policy.... and 99% of them will give you a zero, even if it is a medically excused absense, excused by the academic services dept. with documentation from a physician. That doesn't seem fair to me. They don't let you make it up, or simply calculate your average not including that lab.</p>
<p>What is your uni/prof/TA's policy (on a whole)? Thanks!</p>
<p>if you have a doctor’s note or other legit reason, they simply don’t count the grade. if you miss it for no reason, you get a 0. if you know ahead of time that you’re not going to be there for like a family funeral or something and have documentation, they let you made it up in a different lab session. and they usually drop the lowest lab grade each semester, so even if you get a 0, it won’t kill your grade as long as you show up to the other ones. I think this is pretty fair.</p>
<p>i should mention that if you repeatedly miss lab (even with a doctor’s note), they reccommend you drop the class because you’re not showing up…i guess they eventually start giving you 0’s otherwise.</p>
<p>We have different policies for different labs. One allowed you to make up up to one missed lab. At 7am on the last Saturday before finals. Another had a “special project” you had to do, which as considerably harder than any of the actual labs. I’ve never had a lab that would make you make up more than one missed lab though.</p>
<p>We had make-up lab session every week, where you could come in and do the lab that you missed, no excuses or notes necessary. You had to complete every lab in the class though, or else you failed the class. Not just a 0 on the lab portion, a 0 in the class.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a uniform policy at my school. I think for physics labs, you can’t make them up (even if you have an excused absence), and if you miss more than three (whether excused or unexcused), you fail the course. I’m not sure how they calculate your grade if you miss one class for a legitimate reason. </p>
<p>I wasn’t even aware of the absence policy for the one chem lab I took. I think it was just understood that it was a Bad Idea to miss lab unless you absolutely had to.</p>
<p>And I haven’t taken any bio labs, since I’m doing independent research.</p>
<p>Most lab courses I’ve taken, you get a zero for missing a lab but they also dropped the lowest lab grade.</p>
<p>The lab TA in Bio 1 had two makeup sessions during the semester, but make-up labs incurred a 20% penalty.</p>
<p>You get a zero if you miss, but I asked ahead of time this past lab if my GSI could send me the lab to work on so I could go to a review session during the period our lab took place, and thankfully I didn’t need any equipment to complete it. As long as you turn in all the labs your lowest grade is dropped.</p>
<p>For my chem class you do a pre-lab on WA worth 50% of the lab grade. You can’t make up any labs for any reason, but you can’t still get a 50% for doing the online pre-lab.</p>
<p>At my school it varies for every lab. For General Chemistry lab, which is what im currently taking, your allowed to miss one lab period. It doesn’t matter if you have excuses/were sick or what ever. If you miss more than one lab then you dont get credit for the course. The reason for this is they say that if you miss more than one lab you dont get the proper educational experience from the lab, and therefore you dont get credit for it.</p>
<p>I had a few teachers who would allow half credit for a missed lab if you still did the assignment on it to the best of your ability. (Usually there were a few questions you had to skip because they pertained specifically to the lab work.)</p>
<p>This quarter, though, I had a teacher who would give you a zero for a lab if you missed, no matter the reason for missing it. If you DID go to the lab, but didn’t turn in the related assignment in the first five minutes of class on the day it was due, he knocked off a huge portion of the grade . . . half, I think. Also, no dropped labs or extra credit in that class.</p>
<p>In my Honors Chem. class this semester, the policy was:
-1 “dropped” lab (miss one if you like)
-2 missed labs: 1 zero
-3 missed labs: “F” for the whole course</p>