<p>Which classes do you know in U-M that does not have grading on attendance and participation?</p>
<p>I learn much more efficiently by just reading the textbook and find lecture or discussion sessions to be quite pointless. If I don’t get something I just get private help at the office hours.</p>
<p>Is there a way I could search for those classes with that criteria? Could some U-M programmor make a program that shows which classes doesn’t require you to come into the discussion sessions?</p>
<p>If I run into anyone like you when I am skipping lunch to wait in line at office hours because you were too lazy to sit through a discussion to ask a simple question–or hell, have it answered without even having to ask, I will have a few choice words for them.</p>
<p>“If I run into anyone like you when I am skipping lunch to wait in line at office hours because you were too lazy to sit through a discussion to ask a simple question–or hell, have it answered without even having to ask, I will have a few choice words for them.”</p>
<p>to TwistedxKiss: What’s wrong with that? It’s a personal choice. Everyone pay the same amount of tuition and has equal access to office hour.
In fact, I do find most LSA large lectures a waste of time to go to. The lectures generally suck (way too big) and the material/grading scale is too easy for most people to read the textbook and get an A without putting in much effort anyway. Occasionally you run into a problem or 2 and you go to office hour to get it sorted out. So just because you like to waste time on lectures doesnt mean everyone has to.</p>
<p>To OP: Look for lectures/classes where grades are based 50% on midterm and 50% on finals. I love those classes… you can just ignore them for the entire semester and cram your butt off the week before each exam and still pull an A easily.</p>
<p>Calc 2 has no attendance requirement when I took it. It was based on 3 exams. Never showed up once in class after the 2nd class. Supposedly the team homework can pull up your grade if you are at the borderline but I never bothered anyway. Showed up once at team meeting and I was basically teaching everyone which is a waste of my time. From then on it’s just showing up for exams since I actually did the equivalent of calc 3 in high school anyway.</p>
<p>The three Econ 300 level classes with Vijay Ramini are also easy As. Entire class based on 2 exams. Show up twice a semester. Cram before each exam and it’s a free A. The exams are ridiculously easy but somehow the curve is really generous.</p>
<p>Well, I can tell you that Orgo is based purely on tests…</p>
<p>Thank you very much, Bearcats.</p>
<p>Exactly how do you find those classes? They don’t show the syllabus on the course description so I don’t know whether or not attendance/participation is part of the grading.</p>
<p>ratemyprofessor</p>
<p>btw does the username MM3 have to do with queueing theory?</p>
<p>No. MM = Mater Michigan
3 is for the minimum 3char for the Username</p>
<p>Most engineering classes, especially upper level ones, do not require discussion sections.</p>
<p>So do many engineering students not come to lecture sessions and show up just for the tests?</p>
<p>it’s a lot harder to do well in engineering classes without showing up…stick to cupcakes.
tried and got burned</p>
<p>Very few of my classes have had attendance or participation grades.</p>
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<p>No, most do. It is very possible to not go and just study at home though.</p>
<p>Engineering courses almost always do not count participation or attendance. That is why most professors will put up slides online. Its probably 10X as effective studying at home for an hour looking over the professor’s slides and studying the text, then coming to class especially if you’re professor is not very effective with his/her time. The only things you do need to come to are team-based meetings [for design courses such as ME 250], laboratories, and tests.</p>
<p>What are some majors besides engineering that is mostly composed of classes that does not have attendance/participation grades?</p>
<p>Science courses except for labs. [Orgo, Chem, Physics, etc].</p>
<p>Math is also probably primarily test based (some homework too though…) with no attendance grade.</p>