Also we have supervisions with the lecturers for everything which means if we don't get it the way they explain it there's no-one else to ask. I understand that's more common but it's still not great.
Yes, we get most of our supervisions from the lecturers (though apparently this is different in Organic Chem where the class sizes are much bigger) but they do at least mark the work. A lot of your Physics course does seem to have been set up without any thought of what would actually benefit the students. :/
What they tell us is we're supposed to have reached the stage we teach ourselves to a large extent so they shouldn't hold our hands. So we get half as many supervisions, in groups of 6-8 and with no marked work.
Some of my lecturers seem to have taken this as a license to talk about complicated phenomena while only sketching out the theory that might actually a) make it make sense and b) make us be able to solve problems and do the maths that's on the exam paper.
I think the department is just pocketing the funding that's supposed to go on teaching us to firm up other parts of the budget.
I should probably admit that I've never actually asked anyone to mark any work - they just didn't offer. And I'm sure if they did, a lot of the time I wouldn't have finished it
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Also we have supervisions with the lecturers for everything which means if we don't get it the way they explain it there's no-one else to ask. I understand that's more common but it's still not great.
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Some of my lecturers seem to have taken this as a license to talk about complicated phenomena while only sketching out the theory that might actually a) make it make sense and b) make us be able to solve problems and do the maths that's on the exam paper.
I think the department is just pocketing the funding that's supposed to go on teaching us to firm up other parts of the budget.
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