<p>I know both are important and it would definitely help rather than hurt you to do both, but which one do you guys think is more important? I think paying attention in class is, but I want to know what you guys think.</p>
<p>more important for what? doing well in the class? if that’s the objective then I would agree, paying attention in class would probably be more important for most people.</p>
<p>More important for doing well in class/tests/quizzes. Yes.</p>
<p>Reading the book, for me. I’m not big on paying attention lol</p>
<p>^Same here but I had a professor that literally ignored the book so I had to pay attention to her rants…</p>
<p>Well I’m not really asking which one you do, I’m just asking which one do you think is more important and which one do you think benefits you the most or more.</p>
<p>Depends on the professor for any class…you can’t just generalize.</p>
<p>Some professors always include some topics in lecture that aren’t covered in the readings, and always make a point of including these topics on the exams (ie.,it punishes some students for skipping class if they didn’t get good notes). Also, a lot of professors have the attitude that you aren’t in high school any more, and that students are perfectly capable of doing/understanding the reading on their own–and want to teach what isn’t covered in the readings.</p>
<p>Of course, the reading can also be covered on exams whether the professor covered it in class or not. If there is something you don’t understand in the reading it’s up to you to get help.</p>
<p>And of course there will always be exam questions requiring you to relate the lectures and the readings to prove that you have participated in both.</p>
<p>If the professor things something is really important, he will mention it in class. The parts of the textbook that were not covered in class are unlikely to be covered in the tests.</p>
<p>yep, depends on the professor. above post sums it up really well.
i mean post 7. heh sorry</p>
<p>As a professor, the answer is completely obvious to me. :)</p>
<p>…Are you planning on doing one and not the other? LOL, but honestly for me its paying attention in class. I paid attention to the lecutres and took diligent notes last year in one class and passed with flying colors. However, it really does tend to vary from teacher to teacher.</p>
<p>I might lean towards one over the other. I’m not very good at reading a lot of pages and memorizing, but I am good at paying attention and memorizing especially since he is the type of teacher that knows how to make students memorize such things.</p>
<p>^Thats what I do. Then i simply review whatever nots I took. Generally a teacher will tell you whats important and what you really need to know while you’re taking notes.</p>
<p>Paying attention in class. I just graduated with a 3.9 GPA and I have never used my books for anything other than reference purposes.</p>
<p>I have one professor right now who’s lectures aren’t even remotely lining up with the book. It’s ****ing me off because I don’t like to take notes and I don’t want to be flipping back and forth in the textbook to study.</p>
<p>^^ What’s your major because in engineering it’s impossible to do well on tests by using just the lectures. Profs go out of their way to ask design problems and whatnot that only the book covers. Hence most people just read the book and not bother showing up to lectures.</p>
<p>Paying attention in lecture will allow you to get through the class with an average grade. The people who go through college pulling A’s usually pay attention in lecture and then use the textbook as a supplement to the lecture.</p>
<p>For example, in one of my bio classes the professor covered everything that was on the exams in lecture. It was possible to pass without ever opening a book. However, if you read the text that supports the lecture, usually it provides a better understanding which makes the exam go easier and with better results.</p>
<p>In reality, college is just like anything else in life. The more effort you put in, the better the results are going to be.</p>
<p>^^English Lit. and it was a sociology course. Obviously you can’t really do this for every course. There are some courses where you NEED to use the book. Like a foreign language class. Usually you’ll need the book unless the teacher tells you that you won’t and that you should’nt waste your money buying it. For Sociology my teacher never really assigned us readings from the book and she gave an actual lecture (Got up in front of the class and talked) just about every single day.</p>
<p>You can learn in various ways:</p>
<p>a. Reading (books and other materials).
b. Listening/seeing (lecture).
c. Doing (assignments, problems, projects).</p>
<p>How important each method to learning is depends on the student (though note that the “doing” stuff is also used by the instructor to assess learning, along with tests) and the course. Some students may be able to learn the material mainly through one method, some may be able to learn with any one of the methods, and some may need more than one or all of the methods to learn.</p>
<p>Well I never opened my Physics or Gen Chem books, and I only looked at a handful of things in my Diffy Qs book. So I’d have to say paying attention in class (and doing HW/practice problems)</p>
<p>Yea I will be a Sociology major but I’m wondering about this for my History Class because I hate reading chapters.</p>