Originally Posted by sara_h216

Are tutorials optional for every class then =S?

No, just for Math 1M03 in particular.

The class syllabus will tell you whether the tutorials are mandatory or not.

Originally Posted by PTGregD

No, just for Math 1M03 in particular.

The class syllabus will tell you whether the tutorials are mandatory or not.

The Chem 1A03/1AA3 tutorials used to be mandatory... you have to sign up in a section now but maybe they are still mandatory. Anyways, tutorials can really help when you don't understand things and it's good when you see/hear the TA answer/solve questions. You should definitively go to tutorials in the beginning even if they are optional. If you find out that you don't really need them, then you can stop going.

Originally Posted by jhan523

The Chem 1A03/1AA3 tutorials used to be mandatory... you have to sign up in a section now but maybe they are still mandatory. Anyways, tutorials can really help when you don't understand things and it's good when you see/hear the TA answer/solve questions. You should definitively go to tutorials in the beginning even if they are optional. If you find out that you don't really need them, then you can stop going.

Yeah, really. Some of my tutorials last year were lifesavers, especially when the professor was less than... well, they just weren't great. TAs generally know their stuff, and are usually very approachable.

However... I had a couple tutorials that were a royal waste of my time. I had one who always cancelled tutorials, always let us go early, and didn't even know our names. While it sounds good for the most part, and it was in terms of being free from the wretched hour, it just wasn't helpful at all.

Originally Posted by jhan523

The Chem 1A03/1AA3 tutorials used to be mandatory... you have to sign up in a section now but maybe they are still mandatory. Anyways, tutorials can really help when you don't understand things and it's good when you see/hear the TA answer/solve questions. You should definitively go to tutorials in the beginning even if they are optional. If you find out that you don't really need them, then you can stop going.

Whoa... I must have posted this really late at night. I made a mistake. I meant to say that the Chem 1A03/1AA3 used to be optional. We didn't have to sign up for them, but now you do. But that is not to say that they aren't optional anymore.