“Oh man, these lecture hours are
killing me, literally!” Does this sentence ring any bell, especially after a
long, tiring day of lectures? Lectures are the main element for students
studying in a university as they provide knowledge and information. However, it
is not easy for students to maintain their focus and attention for prolonged
periods. Such long lecture hours are due to three main causes – quality
control, poor timetable arrangement and limited concentration among students.
Starting off, to ensure high
quality graduates, lecture hours have been lengthened. Through extended lecture
hours, students are able to thoroughly understand the topic as the syllabus is taught
at a slower pace. In addition, students are given more opportunities to
approach their lecturers as lecturers have more time to assist the students with
the problems they face. However, this has caused students to become over
fatigued. Besides that, students will also have less time studying at their
hostel. Even lecturers suffer the same fate as they have to work longer than
usual.
Moving on, long lecture hours in
Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) are caused by improperly arranged lecture
schedules. To accommodate with the extended lecture hours, the management of
UTP has chosen to place all the lectures on weekdays. Consequently, the
timetable has moved from a state of packed to overly packed. Students have to
sacrifice their free time at night to attend lectures. Moreover, students
receive more assignments, which make the situation worse. Overall, students
will lack sleep which will accumulate, leading to physical and mental stress in
a long run.
Lastly, the short attention span
of students causes lecture hours to be felt as being too long. As the
concentration of students reaches a maximum limit after a certain period of
time, they are only able to pay full attention during a short span of time in a
lecture. Consequently, this makes lecture hours seem long and tiring. In
addition, students will not be able to focus during the second half of the
lecture, causing them not being able to understand the lectures as well as the
first half of it. Eventually, students begin to generate fatigue after lectures,
which cause them having to rest or take a nap after lectures, hence having less
time for personal study.
In conclusion, long lecture hours
are caused mainly by the policy of the university to maintain high quality
graduates, badly arranged lecture schedules and short attention span of
students during lectures. Thus, management should consider reducing the lecture
hours or rearranging the schedule so as to make them less packed. By doing so,
we will be able to ensure better quality graduates being produced every year.
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