Another day, another classroom, another professor, but the same story.
This time, it's the B-slot prof (proving other deptts' profs are equally good at bunking). His register would show I've attended around 60%, while I've gone for 80% of his classes. And attendence matters to him like hell (Here, he's depart-mentally different). Why do they calculate attendence as a percentage of number of classes actually held?
What does actually held mean? Eighty students made their presence felt to the neighbouring classrooms a bit more strongly than usual for half an hour, but the class was not actually held, because one person bunked off.
WTF.
Every class that is not cancelled in advance should be counted as actually held and the attendence be awarded to everybody. Man, at least for this course, I've attended 80%, and I certainly don't deserve an Attendence F.
And what makes them argue that attendence has a positive correlation with marks? (At least I score better in the courses I don't attend compared to the ones I do.) But even if it is true, then the student will eventually flunk on the basis of marks; so why do they need this tool of an Attendence Fail? Certainly their own positive-correlation theory disapproves of the need for this tool.
The faculty members who are not too good at teaching feel that this tool is the only way to ensure that the attendence in their classes does not reflect their (in)capabilities to the passers-by in the corridor. Better teachers seldom care for attendence.
March 19, 2007
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the better ones dont care because there class u go to anyway
the logic is simple, even if fallible. they believe anybody with enough brains to make thru iit will do something if they r made to sit thru classes n pass thru.
I agree with phoenix. Its one of those IIT super-fundas I guess. We have it in our insti too, but then, the 'proxy' concepts obliterates the short attendence factor.
*concept
[Phoenix]
I get it, I agree, and I thank that you wrote more than one word :D
[Tap]
The proxy concept got a mighty blow in the same B-slot a fortnight back, and I passed my time in that class writing this:
Chaos prevails
Tragedy unravels
For the proxies un-owned
prof spells
trouble for everybody present.
Knowing none, I
as a silent spectator, see
the contest between
fear of fifty
and pride of one.
(Somehow it couldn't make it as a post on the blog in time)
[Tap]
I won't doubt ur knowledge of grammar anyway.
Well i can identify with your state since we too have a similar lot of profs in our college .
Though we do manage proxy 'sometimes'!
We too do manage it mostly, but the mismanagement of the same in our college can have more drastic repercussions i guess. Professors with a creative mind won't react that severely, I hope, compared to these Einstein's nuclear bombs!
Yup! That way we r more or less at an advantage but then r college has other ediotic ways of covering up for not so things.
*not so bad things
Attendance has no positive co-relation with marks and marks have no positive co-relation with intelligence and intelligence has no positive co-relation with understanding and understanding has no positive co-relation with happiness and happiness has no positive co-relation with a good life. So why bunk classes?
[RM, 11:04pm]
Yup, mostly like that; but depends.
[V]
That implies attendence may've a negative co-relation with a good life. So bunk classes! :D
Good point, especially with the closeing paragraphs
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