Groupmates won't help at all!

Well, I have experienced this a couple of times in the past. Actually i did not really care about it back then, since I expect nothing whatsoever from these guys in the beginning. What I did back then is, if I feel that they are not worth the marks allotted, I removed their names from the lists during submission HA! You are perfectly entitled to do so, and if they try to protest and the lecturer ask about it you could just explain the situation, I am sure the lecturer will understand and agree with you. If those free riders insist that they have done their part, just ask the lecturer maybe to explain the part they admit as their work and question them about it. It will be obvious in the end though. Anyways, chill, these guys do exist, and if they give you a hard time, just give them a harder time back, they'll learn their lessons eventually ;p

When I was at school and University I hated working as a group, because I was the kind of person who really enjoying doing a lot of work and this meant that the other people in the group would be left behind. If I tried to make them do some work they wouldn't do it, so it was a choice of either doing the work myself or getting a poor grade because of the work that other people should have done. I actually got into trouble once for leaving somebody out, but he was completing next to no work and when he did hand it in it was incredibly poor so I didn't really as though I should be using it to try and get the grades that I was searching for. I am much better when I work on my own, and that is certainly something that I have learned to take to the long term with me.

That is challange about group assignments. Sometimes you don't have the same ambitions and the same priorities. I especially remember one group project. We were 4 people who were supposed to work to together. I don't just want to pass I want good grades and one of the other girls agreed with me and we worked together really well because we both had the same goal. The last two girls didn't do their part of the assignment. They constantly forgot their books and their papers and they didn't do the things that we had planned. The another girl and I had to finish the assignment alone. We tried to talked to the other girls, but it didn't help and the active girl and I did finished the assignment alone, because we didn't want to get a bad grade.

Did you talk to your instructor about the situation? Perhaps you could get some advice on how to get your groupmates to take a more active role in the assignment. Good luck!

Sorry, i don't agree with you. I think what you want to do now is unreasonable and can make your group more uncooperative, which is not beneficial for you and others of group. I think your need a leader in your group first, who can organize your group and makes all memembers in accordance, the leader is very important and should be elected but not volunteered. And the leader declares the rule of group, who don't participate in the group project whoud be removed his/her name from the paper at all.

That is the reason why I disliked group projects so much. I admit I don't go well with teamwork and it's really hard to encourage everyone to participate. People just have different priorities. It's even harder to get everyone to sit together and properly discuss the work. Your group mates are obviously expecting others in the group to do the job instead. That's so unfortunate of you to end up with them in the group. Whenever I was in the same situation, I would always tell myself that at least I get to learn, and if the teacher asks them about the work, they wouldn't know a thing!

Group project is good for you to taste what the real world like... there are many real world project that require a good team work and require that every member of the group doing their job. If i were you, i won't do another work until the other give some contribution, i don't care if i had to fail that subject, because i think it's important that everybody knows that they should contribute something to the group.

That's something I hate in a group work. Members become idle and they do not participate. Me I always present myself as the leader of the group and I force these members to work as much as I can because the tasks assigned are just equal so there's no reason for them to complain. But if you are going to ask me what type of project I want if the choices are group project and individual project I'll pick individual project right away.

Oh sad. yeaah they seem to be free riders. You better not include their names when submitting. talk to your lecturer or the tutor about this so that they know what ia happening. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

Lol, I can so relate. I have lots of experiences like this back in college. At first, I just let these kind of people get away with it. I don't mind, I don't care. I was so naive to think that by the end of the semester I will be given some consideration or break by the other group members who did not participate at all knowing that me and a couple of classmates were the ones who did most of the work. But I was so wrong. What I did was I went to our professor, and I asked him if we can cancel out the names of those group members who do not contribute anything for the group project. Not wanting to be caught in the mess of students, she said it's our call but later on decided to open the possibility that some students are going to be booted out of groups and all she asks from us is to inform her about it after every class with her. We managed to boot out one, and when they learned that our professor doesn't really care much on following the grouping as long as we turn in the project, they started participating more.

Yeah you may face some problems while working with a team. But if it is a team it must have some strengths and weaknesses. Just try to link up yourself and others as a team. If you are doing this you may tell them the what good or great thing or achievement they can grab by doing the research job. Or you can simply give them some time to get to know or link up to others as a team. As the current situation is not up to your expectations you can talk out this with others. But first you can get to know others and let others to know and understand you. After that you can move to the real job, research. If you are not the leader do not consider that you are not a part of team. Just plan it like you are the real leader and move on with your project. Good Luck!

Oh my, that should be difficult when you're in the same group of people who can't be asked to cooperate. It'd even worse since it seems you don't know them. In college I'd actually try to ask friends to be in one group since we already know each other and know each other's characters. However it should be difficult to do if you're in the class which there aren't any of your friends in it, or when the groupmates being decided from some kind of random or serial number of absences.