<p>“If you have to miss a class or precept due to a University-sponsored activity, notify your instructor ahead of time. If your absence is due to illness, contact your instructors or ask your residential college dean or director of studies to do so. In no case should you miss classes or precepts without an explanation. In many courses, attendance, particularly in precepts, is weighed heavily in assigning a grade.”</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> - Class of 2008 Academic Guide - Planning Your Program for the Fall](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/agf/04/21.htm]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/agf/04/21.htm)</p>
<p>All I can ask is… WHAT!!!</p>
<p>Precepts and classes are the discussion sections of each course, which are small and depend on conversation. So, in some cases, if you miss them, you’ll be both taking away from the rest of the group and not participating. So of course you’d lose points.</p>
<p>On the other hand, for some courses (ex. ECO 310), the classes are useless and they don’t penalize you for not going. It just depends on the course.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t see why this is a big issue at all. Many other schools are far more strict in their attendance policies.</p>
<p>It’s perfectly acceptable for some teachers to require attendance if you want to pass. Their class, their rules.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that you don’t have to go to lectures, but you do have to go to most classes and precepts.</p>
<p>What’s the difference between a lecture, class, and precept?</p>