Well yes, that was the main point of it. They openly admitted to that as I already said. Because otherwise people would just download the powerpoints of the lectures or read the textbook and never attend period sans for the test days.
For an example, most of the time it was a study that you'd not know about because it was only brought up in lecture and end up being asked to discuss its findings relevant to the stuff you could learn from the text itself. Not a simple "writing Shabooopy for 10 points" magic word, but legitimate learning in itself being carrotted to keep you in the class instead of "lul attendance not mandatory, I'm outtie suckers!"
I'll even admit it was effective because I can still recall some of them due to the discussions we had in those lectures. Stuff I'd have missed otherwise because without the forced attendance my stupid youth brain would have ditched constantly.
Something not being "university-level" is the same as all your high school teachers saying "you'll need this in college!" wherein college is twice as lazy and immediately teaches you how to not need that. In theory it shouldn't be, but that's not how they end up working a lot of the time.
Well yes, that was the main point of it. They openly admitted to that as I already said. Because otherwise people would just download the powerpoints of the lectures or read the textbook and never attend period sans for the test days.
For an example, most of the time it was a study that you'd not know about because it was only brought up in lecture and end up being asked to discuss its findings relevant to the stuff you could learn from the text itself. Not a simple "writing Shabooopy for 10 points" magic word, but legitimate learning in itself being carrotted to keep you in the class instead of "lul attendance not mandatory, I'm outtie suckers!"
I'll even admit it was effective because I can still recall some of them due to the discussions we had in those lectures. Stuff I'd have missed otherwise because without the forced attendance my stupid youth brain would have ditched constantly.
Something not being "university-level" is the same as all your high school teachers saying "you'll need this in college!" wherein college is twice as lazy and immediately teaches you how to not need that. In theory it shouldn't be, but that's not how they end up working a lot of the time.