Do you have lecturers/teachers like this?

I do engineering and i find that it varies from module to module.

Some lecturers are more than willing to give detailed solutions to past papers, whilst others may only provide the final numerical answers. However i've never come across a lecturer unwilling to check solutions or answers to a question, therefore that does appear particularly harsh i feel.

So, we have two past papers from last year, one is a resit. They are both totally different.

Then, this



So no feedback, no answers, nothing.

The style of question is essay based. However, there is a right and wrong answer. So if we start off on a false premise, the entire essay is redundant..

Now, whilst I don't expect to be spoonfed, this is pretty difficult. The lectures are mostly pictures. Not much writing.

Oh well.

To be honest there are loads of students on some uni courses, they can't explain to everyone individually which specific things to mention in an essay and they shouldn't give one person more information than everyone else.

For that reason a lot of this sort of information is given out only in the lectures where it's your own fault if you miss it.

This is university, you shouldn't need to be spoonfed things

if you get a topic and have some examples of questions you should be able to deduce what sensible things to include are. In my experience you will get credit as long as you don't write something clearly irrelevant.

To be honest there are loads of students on some uni courses, they can't explain to everyone individually which specific things to mention in an essay and they shouldn't give one person more information than everyone else. For that reason a lot of this sort of information is given out only in the lectures where it's your own fault if you miss it. This is university, you shouldn't need to be spoonfed things, if you get a topic and have some examples of questions you should be able to deduce what sensible things to include are. In my experience you will get credit as long as you don't write something clearly irrelevant.

The reason my lecturer posted that was because people were doing exactly that - turning up at her office.

I think most unis are like this. we have like 1 past paper available with no mark schemes although tbf they did go through the problem questions in a 2 hour lecture which I didn't attend. they have conveniently not recorded that lecture either XD

Goodness, entitlement runs so high these days.

At the risk of sounding like a Monty Python sketch, "in my day" there were no recordings of lectures and no slides uploaded to an intranet. Most lectures involved writing on a blackboard or acetate. If you wanted to remember the stuff, you had to make the effort there and then!

Goodness, entitlement runs so high these days.

At the risk of sounding like a Monty Python sketch, "in my day" there were no recordings of lectures and no slides uploaded to an intranet. Most lectures involved writing on a blackboard or acetate. If you wanted to remember the stuff, you had to make the effort there and then!

I wasn't trying to be entitled! just stating the facts of lack of past papers etc. maybe its a good thing......also in your day you got paid to go uni, tech has changed a lot :P

Is that the best way to teach? Do you think students find that style of lecturing the most engaging?

Why can't they?