Is compulsory attendance really needed in college?

Compulsory attendance is not really needed in college, but minimum attendance is necessary (65% as set by our college). Because at least one can have a brief idea of what the subjects are and what is the current topic being taught in the class and also an idea of how many topics he has missed. This way the student can at least plan which are the subjects that he/she should start reading early and which are the ones, the student thinks he can complete just one or two weeks before semester exam (at least if the student doesn't want any backlogs in those subjects). Attending the classes on time also teaches us how to be punctual, which is necessary. Because in future no matter where we work, whatever may the job, being punctual will be a plus point for us. Now the rest of the time while the student isn't studying or attending his regular classes that time can be given to the societies that he has joined or in doing something productive that will help him to achieve his goals in life. In this way he can at least maintain a decent CGPA, to sit for campus placement so that at least he can have a job to fall back upon if things don't work out according to his plans. Time management is necessary if you want to achieve something in life. But in the end I also want to add that whatever I have written is not to be related to those who waste their time by smoking weed and getting high all the time and just lying on their bed in hostel rooms just like drunkards and drug addicts, because for them neither attendance nor studies or even their goals in life (if they do have any!) matter as much as getting high or getting drunk.

I think compulsory attendance is needed in every college. But it should not be high. It should be minimum 50-55% because students may not like every lecture and they may need time for self-preparation for different examinations. But minimum attendance requirement should be their in every college otherwise if the student doesn't attend the class at all then he should better do a correspondence course. Also, the lecturers should teach in such a way that the students will be interested in attending the classes, they should not be forced to attend the class. And also if the student is self-disciplined and punctual than he will automatically attend the class and the students who are not interested will find different reasons not to attend the class. So that's why the attendance requirement should be minimum so that students will at least know what is going on in the college.

I don't think it's necessary. I have really experienced it in my life if we go to the college they take our precious time from 8 to 9 hours and if attendance made compulsory then we have given our precious time to them, nowadays people today in education system is really uneducated and make system for us they really don't know what is good for us and what not. They can just think up to how much they have thinking power so I must say students should not be bounded by such rules and regulation. We should be given freedom of our time.

Hi, friends.

Nowadays in govt engineering colleges, 75% attendance is compulsory but in my opinion, this restriction should be relaxed because in lectures neither some lecturers nor some students are so interested to study. I think if any student is really curious and serious about his studies then, if bar is there or not, he will attend the class to learn and that is meaningful learning instead of that when student becomes last benchers and makes it sometimes difficult for curious or serious students to study by making noise or other types of disturbances.

Things don't end here some students bunk their classes and make pressure on regularly class attending students to their proxy which is directly making fun of rules and regulations and this makes them more confident to break rules further in their life.

So, on conclusion I want to say that restriction on attendance should be lowered to 50-60% instead of 75%.

Attendance is quite essential as it engraves punctuality in an individual. He becomes more serious and hence could develop some potential skills. However attendance as long as it is not forced and the individual is deliberately made to attend lecture could develop some serious undesirable issues. The individual may become good theorist but shall eventually lack the practical skills.

Hi friends.

It is one of the main problems of the engineering student Attendance!. I am against this, because most of the student during the lectures are not attentive they are not interested in that, they are only wasting their time to attend the lectures only to get an attendance. If they are free from this attendance system, if they have interested they.

Definitely, attend it. Otherwise, they can utilise this time in that task that they like. If you are a college student you can understand this, that we study by our self for exams not by our lectures. Finally, In my view, compulsory attendance shouldn't be in college.

Well, talking about attendance in colleges is compulsory or not is an important topic, if the college teaching techniques are well enough to make the student attentive to attend a regular class. Then it seems to be very important for them but if not then attendance is not compulsory so, At last, I would like to say that if the environment of college is happier or like or feels like a collegian attendance of every student automatically becomes a regular student. And then this problem of attendance or short attendance will not occur.

Hi friends, attendance is important for college students but the professors are not teaching well to tell about the subject. So they are not interested to listening class carefully. Students don't have any knowledge about the subject and waste of their time. Suppose professors try to tell a good subject to the students, they are automatically attend their classes with good interest.

Good morning every one.

I think that compulsory attendance in college has both advantages and disadvantages, coming on to advantages I would like to say that as for daily attendance we are creating a good habbit of waking early for college, and if we are attending a class of prop who is sound in his knowledge and able to express.

And coming on to disadvantages is many colleges having bad prop qualaity they don't have good knowlege of the subject they are taking and forcing student to have attendance of 75% or otherwise giving threat of backlog or calling parents etc.

From my point of view, attendance should not be compulsory in school. There is a many reasons behind it. Some of which is as follows:

(1) Students are forced to join lectures even they are not interested in attending that lectures.
(2) Most of the lectures are boring.
(3) If the student will do self-study during that period then he will learn more things.
(4) Generally, college students are of the age 18+ so they are mature enough to decide what is wrong and what is right so they are not forced to do so.