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Hello!

I’m a freshman, at the bottom of the food chain and I have a question about tutorials and practicals. Is it mandatory to take practicals from all the courses I take?

I’m taking:
bio130h1 bio120h1
chm138h1 chm139h1
mat135h1
psy100h1
phy131h1 phy132h1

I took all the possible tutorials that I can. But there weren’t any tutorials on ROSI for psy for example. If it’s mandatory to take practical is it ok if I take a pra for one semester and don’t for the other?

Thank you for your help
Damra

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Damra,

Unless otherwise indicated, your practicals are mandatory. So take a look at the timetable yourself and check for all those courses to see if there’s some sort of note stating that they’re optional.

Basically, the easiest thing to do to know if you need to take a practical or tutorial is look at the listing in the timetable and check out the sections. For example, if you look at CHM138H, you’ll see that it has a bunch of different lecture sections, practical sections, and tutorial sections.

Logically, you need to pick one of each.

So if the course offers a practical or tutorial, just assume that it’s mandatory unless the opposite is otherwise stated.

However, sometimes courses just don’t have tutorials. PSY100H is just a lecture, for example.

Another thing you can do is look at the calendar. Beside the course title will be something that says how many hours are allotted to lectures, tutorials, practicals or seminars for a course.

So if we look at CHM138H again which says —

CHM138H1????Introductory Organic Chemistry I[36L/12T/18P]

— then we can see that in those 12 weeks of class, you’ll spend 36 hours in lecture, 12 hours in tutorial, and 18 hours in practicals.

Just note that sometimes, however, there are some courses that make you sign up for your tutorials in class on the first day rather than on ROSI, so do make sure you DON’T skip your first week. Sure, all they do is hand out the syllabi and drone out what you’re perfectly capable of reading on your own, but you never know what you might miss out on.

tl;dr = unless your prof says it’s okay, you bet your ass that practical or tutorial is mandatory.

Cheers!

aska

Also, I don’t understand your last question but hopefully this spiel of you-don’t-have-choices has clarified things enough.

Cheers!

aska