Class Participation - Explained.
January 20, 05 by BharaniI had certain questions regarding Class-Participation in “Indian School of Business”.
“I came across the concept of “Class Participation” and the marks awarded for it, in the blogs of Raja and Sujayath.
How does Class Participation work? Is it just asking some relevant questions and answering the questions of professors? or one should give presentation to the entire class? How is the marks allocated? Would somebody make a note of who asked so many questions and who didn’t open his mouth? Finally, is more marks allocated for more questions? Curious 
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Replies I received:
“Class Participation (CP) is the most talked about topic at ISB. Some love it, some hate it and some fear it. Some of the weirdest comments can be heard as part of CP.
You don’t have to make a presentation, but just utter something relevant to further the class discussion. The more insightful it is (creates an Aha moment), the more marks you get. Quality, not quantity matters.
Teaching Assistants will keep tab of who is speaking what.
You would discover the many charms of CP when you land up here. ”
-Raja
“I have taken couple of courses at sloan school of mgmt, and each couse had certain percentage of the marks are class participation.
Class participation would be more predominent in classes containing case studies, cases for the following classes would be given and you need to analyze the case before going to the class, in the class there would be discussion about the case, here comes the picture of class participation, the more you add to the discussion the more class participation marks you get. To this aking inquisitive question will add to class participation. (The procedure for tracking class participation was the TA had an excel sheet, with coulums like number of points added to case discussion and so on…)”
- Kranthi Kiran
That’s interesting…Will be fun!
