Lectures question

[(Daniel)]

Is there a correlation between high grades and attending lectures at the university? I now have the option of watching them from my home. Whilst i understand that this might be distracting it would save me.. around 4 hours of travel per day. I come home and i am a little exhausted and by this i tend to procrastinate.

[heart]

None. I personally never went to lectures for undergrad and watched them all from home at 2-3x times speed since travel time, 50ish minutes each way, didn't make it worthwhile.

[Aaron]

I agree, no correlation. You are better off doing your readings and then going to a tutorial or workshop (as allocated) where you can apply what you've learnt. You will learn so much more in the other activities.

Only things that I can think of that might be a disadvantage:
1. discussions or lecture activities that go on (may or may not get picked up by the recording)
2. lecturer worked examples (if the lecturer wants to punish students who don't attend, they will do examples that aren't picked up by the recording - have had this happen to me quite a few times).

You should be able to get by anyway. Lecture notes (most of the time) are based off the prescribed text, if there is one.

[(Daniel)]

None. I personally never went to lectures for undergrad and watched them all from home at 2-3x times speed since travel time, 50ish minutes each way, didn't make it worthwhile.

at 2-3x time speed? Thats interesting. Are you willing to tell me what kind of marks you got?

[heart]

at 2-3x time speed? Thats interesting. Are you willing to tell me what kind of marks you got?

My WAM was around 71 so nothing to special then again I was a crammer which involved watching 20+ lectures on numerous days before exams and rereading the lecture slides.

[spectroscopy]

yea my best subject at uni so far is the one was the one i attended the least (never went to anything at all) and i didnt even watch lectures, i just read the slides before the exam (it was an 80% weighted exam too)

lots of lecturers love to mention that theres a slight positive correlation between attendance and grades, but you have to remember that correlation does not equal causation, and the correlation exists because of the fact that the students that tend do poorly by large do not attend lectures(broadly speaking). if you are a good student and intend to study hard then not attending is not a hindrance at all