Practicals vs Tutorials vs Lectures

[DinWell]

What are the differences? Should they be taken in a specific order throughout the week?
Do certain types tend to have higher workloads?

[MB_]

Lectures are the place where you learn the content required for the subject. These occur in lecture venues of anywhere from 100-500 seats.

Tutorials and practicals (as well as workshops) are often synonymous as different subjects call them different things. Some subjects, for example Physics, have both practicals and tutorials. The difference here is practicals are usually where you carry out some sort of experiment and have to do a write-up about what you found. On the other hand, tutorials involve completing a set of textbook style problems in small groups. Also practical classes tend to be larger than tutorials (40 vs 20 people).

Hopefully that clears up some things and feel free to ask anymore questions

[vox nihili]

The other one to note in all of this is the seminar, which is basically like a lecture but given to a smaller group of students. They're basically big tutorials, so they're designed to be a bit more interactive than most lectures.

As with everything, these terms aren't always accurate descriptions of what you'll get into. We had workshops in undergrad that were just lectures where we went through questions.