BPTC Starter Guide BPTCStarterGuide | Page 31

Prioritising and Tuning out I don’t have time to do anything else :( It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the weekly changes in your timetable and the fact that if you miss 20% of your classes, you automatically fail the course. It is also rather stressful to think about the fact that being more than 10 minutes late for a class means you’re absent (the BSB seriously has this rule) and the fact that lecturers have every right to mark you as absent if they deem you unprepared for class. It also does not help to dwell on the fact that if your attendance falls to 90%, your schools have every right to demand the work due from the 10% of the classes you missed or else, fail you. How on earth are you going to prepare for every class, what more fulfil the attendance requirement?! Won’t this affect one’s social life and other outside school activities i.e. mooting?