._. I cannot even imagine that. Smallest class I ever had was a French class with 25 or 30 and even that was just one of two or three sections of the course itself.
I can't imagine being in a class with like...200 people. You've got to just feel like a number and not really anything significant - and you're out of luck if you aren't following what's going on.
The profs have office hours and there are usually tutorials for most classes where TAs will go over examples of the concepts. I prefer feeling like a number. I really dislike smaller classes because it's so easy to feel singled out, even if it's in a good way. (I felt like such a know-it-all/show-off in Japanese class since attendance and participation were mandatory and when the lecture split into smaller tutorial sessions, the class size was only about ~20.)
I just like the feel of smaller classes. You get to know your classmates better, as well as the prof, and it's just a lot more comfortable, less sterile environment than being student #132 of 300 in the class.
Most of my classmates are Chinese and don't even bother speaking English. u_u I'd feel even more alone if the class sizes were smaller, I think.
Most of my classes are around 50-75, I believe. I actually have one class that has 1000 students in the class.
That's gigantic! Was it held in a sports stadium? I've had large exams of probably that size, where it was all the many many sections for the one course writing a once. Organizing where everyone had to sit involved a megaphone XD It was held at the tennis courts (interior)
...really? XD For my exams of that size, they just give you seating assignments or give us the entire floor of the gym and everyone just grabs whatever seat they want. Needing a megaphone sounds really disorganized. :P
So the tennis stadium remains closed until ten minutes before the exam starts. All of the sections, all 1000 or so of us it seems like, stand outside hurdled in a giant mass like cattle (one year, during a snowstorm. That was fun). Someone with a megaphone yells at us and tries to direct groups of student from the same course section together. Then they eventually let us in and there are big bristoal board on the wall with course section labelled on them outlining where we each class shold sit. Also tape divisions on the ground to bring some sort of order. We're brought in by class as best as they can manage, and then direct us where to sit. But... there are always strange people who try to sit not in there section. Or in the section for students with special assistance or with a deferred exam when they aren't supposed to be there. So, they use megaphones in there too XD It is chaotic and really stresses you out before your exam lol Only my math exams have been like that. Everything else was small and calm. Except for one exam where the fire alarm went off three times in first year
We just had exams in the same room where we had the class. None of this fancy special rooms for exams or big cattle herds - it was just the people in our class/section.
