As a student at the beginning of the 1970s, I joined a course in a college “which was called General Education then & Cultural Studies now”. That course was compulsory for all the college students. It involved formal lectures which presented the subjects to all students enrolled in the course & less formal tutorials including small number of students in which the lectures were discussed in more detail. The lectures were presented by “few” lecturers while the tutorials were done by a “single” instructor. I liked the tutorial then more than the fast-paced lecture.

Last semester, I tried a voluntary unpaid single tutorial per week in an organic chemistry course which encompassed 3 compulsory lectures per week. At my age, the tutorial was more laborious than the lecture. The small number of students "who joined" started the tutorials with enthusiasm initially & lost interest later on upon the approach of the final exams.

Depends on the material and the teacher/professor but I would prefer tutorials. Especially when I was doing my master's degree, most of the courses were in tutorial format. There was more interaction, discussion and exchange of ideas. Therefore as a teacher I prefer tutorials although I find lecturing much easier. 

Dear Dr Matar,

Thank you very much for sharing your opinion.

Best wishes and kind regards,

Rainer

Dear Dr Erdeniz,

Thank you very much for your opinion.

Best wishes and kind regards,

Rainer

Dear all,

thank you again for sharing your opinions. I appreciate this a lot.

Yours sincerely,

Rainer

Dear Dr Khayal,

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Yours sincerely,

Rainer

I prefer lectures or tutorials because they are linked to each other

Best Regards Rainer Spiegel

Dear Dr Rahil,

Thank you very much for sharing your opinion.

Best regards,

Rainer

My experiences slowly but surely took me away from tutorials.

Because yes, having gathered enough "strength", allowing me to built-up my own tutorials, coming out from my lectures.

In fact, those tutorials became "possible tutorials", but not mine. Considering my strengths and weaknesses, upon those knowledge I had and wanted to gather.