It is generally required that you should bring your textbooks to tutorials. As for lectures, it is recommended because your professor may need to illustrate a point or so using the textbook.
I never bring it to class. As for tutorials, some T.A.s go over questions from the book and you'll find it beneficial to have the text with you... either way you'll find out after the first week or two.
by default you are not expected to bring your books unless you discover you have to
for example, an english class and youre discussing a novel
go to your first class without, noone is expected to have their books on first day of class unless otherwise told, like in a 4th year class when you get an email from your prof asking you to have read 50 pages for the first day like me...
textbooks are supposed to be complementing the lecture with more details and as a reference, and you're kind of supposed to be listening/participating in class, most profs/tas don't require you to have the book all the time.
You do not need to bring the textbooks if you are in the following faculties: - Faculty of Applied Science - Faculty of Science (only Lab manual) - Faculty of Health Science
The reason for this is because we have a lot of textbooks and they are all big. If you carry it everyday, you might get back pain or something.
Back pain isn't a very good reason for leaving them behind.
It's true, though, that you don't need them in class. I try to get all the textbooks in PDF form so I can bring them up on my laptop if I need them. If you're in math or science courses, the textbook will probably come in handy in tutorials or when you need to work on assignments.
Yeah. I've never heard of needing to bring textbooks to my chemistry tutorials. If you go to physics open labs, though, or math open labs, you should prolly bring your text if you need to ask a TA a question about how to do a problem.
And certainly very rarely for lectures, though some very small third or fourth year classes might occasionally require working stuff from the text. Your prof will tell you when to bring your books in such a case.
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but if you're lazy and dont wanna carry the textbooks, just share it with people in tut.
for example, an english class and youre discussing a novel
go to your first class without, noone is expected to have their books on first day of class unless otherwise told, like in a 4th year class when you get an email from your prof asking you to have read 50 pages for the first day like me...
- Faculty of Applied Science
- Faculty of Science (only Lab manual)
- Faculty of Health Science
The reason for this is because we have a lot of textbooks and they are all big. If you carry it everyday, you might get back pain or something.
It's true, though, that you don't need them in class. I try to get all the textbooks in PDF form so I can bring them up on my laptop if I need them. If you're in math or science courses, the textbook will probably come in handy in tutorials or when you need to work on assignments.
And certainly very rarely for lectures, though some very small third or fourth year classes might occasionally require working stuff from the text. Your prof will tell you when to bring your books in such a case.