Degree Results: Who else is waiting?

milk

TeaBoy wrote:

we don't get our results until 19th of July! and they've decided not to publish results on the intranet or noticeboard.

Are you at Teesside Uni by any chance if so maybe mine won't be available till than either!!!

Jersy

slightly different for me cos i was completing and hnd

but i recieved 7 distinctions and 1 merit in second year which has allowed me to skip second year of the degree course and go straight into final year. im over the moon

ftbworried

rrwfotr wrote:

Hi does anyone know the proportion of people getting 1:1 , 2:1 and 2:2, when I was at uni a few years ago there would only be 1 or two people in the year (computing) that got a 1:1 a handfull of people of people getting a 2:1 and loads that got a 2:2. IS this still the case or have the number of people getting 1:1, and 2:1 gone up...... it would be intresting to find out......

On my course (at a russell group university) there were two firsts (me and a guy who'd transferred from oxford), two 2:1's, a 2:2 and the rest were all thirds (>60% of people got thirds or less). I think it's unfair that this low performance will SEEM to reflect on the course teaching standards, yet the teaching standards were extremely high and the course was very well put together. It's just a shame that the way funding is given to universities now, universities have to keep students because they need their fees regardless of how !!!!less, unmotivated and lazy the student might be. Therefore whereas years ago if you didn't pull your weight you'd be thrown off the course, now you just get patted on the head and told to better next time because the uni needs the fees (particularly on a small course like mine). That is what is driving down standards (and forcing some universities to lower their standards for each class in order to maintain their figures for those league tables!).

My fiance takes part as an interviewer at graduate recruitment days for the large multinational IT firm he works for and he says that the standard is getting more shocking every year. A guy with a 2:1, faced with a 5 minute presentation on his career goals, spelt 'career' 3 different ways on his powerpoint presentation!! Another with an equally good degree spent the entire time telling the interviewers how he 'wanted to make his living in IT so that he could pack it in in 10 years and move to Ibiza to open a bar!!!!!!!'. Degree classifications are becoming completely devalued, it's not about the degree classification anymore but your experience and how you apply yourself, unless like me, you plan to stay in academia and then your degree class will dictate your further progression/funding.

milk

Well its finally ben confirmed I now have to wait until the week beginning July 17th its not fair i want them NOW!!!

Basil_Fawlty

Hmmm... I have to sit "supplementaries" - and worst of all is that I've got to do 6 resits, 4 in my core modules :eek: Anyone would think I'd been partying and not revising. I don't think I can go back. Any ideas?

Seraphim

Barcode wrote:

I'm not convinced the current degree classification system accurately reflects a persons abilities. Somebody who receives a grade of say, 80, which is a clear first (and next to impossible) and somebody who receives a 70, which is just a first, will be placed in the same class when it's clear there is a quite a difference of ability and/or work ethic.

Just want to point out that not all Unis work this way. To get a first where I am, you have to get over 85%. To get a 2:1, you have to have an average of over 70%. Really irritating as I've just graduated with a 2:1 with an average that would be a 1st anywhere else

Congrats to everyone who's got their degrees, and for everyone who is going on to a Masters....hopefully my plan for next year too

- Seraphim -

anewman

Cheeky wrote:

But as i'm forever being told, degree's from all Uni's are the same? This will probably upset a lot of people, but what a load of rubbish!!

Well whenever work was marked as a first (70% or more) at The University of Huddersfield (Previously a Polytechnic at one point) on the Psychology course, it was automatically sent out to be externally verified by another University, and they selected random pieces of work that got below 70% to check. I assume this also happens at all other Universities.

I managed a first. With this external validation, I would like to think my first is, well, worth a first. There were no dirty tricks like only accepting marks from certain modules. I did get about 68% overall (bumped up to a first) with the first year not counting, the second year counting once, and third year counting twice (so it was more critical to get good grades in the final year). I was apparently one of around 4 in a total of about 90 who got a first.

I know a first at Huddersfield is not likely to be perceived as good as a first from The University of Leeds, or Oxbridge. I think 20% of people getting a first on a course is obscene, particularly when the marking scheme (only best marks) you mention is used. The way I understand degree classification is that it is meant to discriminate between people with differing academic ability. If you cast aside work someone didn't do particularly well in, you fail to take into account something they are not good at. When some work is just pushed aside in favour of higher degree classifications it really makes you think degree education is devalued. (In fact - which Uni does this practice? I want to avoid any involvement wih it at all costs - lol)

In fact I think Huddersfield were quite strict, if you wanted extra time for work you needed a doctors note or a death certificate etc. If you handed in work one second after the deadline, you got a maximum mark of 40% within the first week and 0% after that (I have heard of schemes used at other universities like 5% knocked off each day the work is not handed in).

Despite a first, one year on I am still unemployed, and I think the real mark of a worthwhile degree is having something to show for it at the end. I just have interest repayments of £30 a month being added onto my SLC account to show for it. I am looking at starting a masters this year if I can get the finances together.

Seraphim wrote:

To get a first where I am, you have to get over 85%. To get a 2:1, you have to have an average of over 70%. Really irritating as I've just graduated with a 2:1 with an average that would be a 1st anywhere else

I think one of the Oxbridge Unis does distinguish between firsts with 3 sub categories so if you did particularly well (near 100%) this would be recognised.

TeaBoy_2

milk wrote:

Are you at Teesside Uni by any chance if so maybe mine won't be available till than either!!!

yeah i am. its a little annoying cos i'm relying on my results to get into another uni to top up the hnd.

DrFluffy

Seraphim wrote:

Just want to point out that not all Unis work this way. To get a first where I am, you have to get over 85%. To get a 2:1, you have to have an average of over 70%. Really irritating as I've just graduated with a 2:1 with an average that would be a 1st anywhere else

Congrats to everyone who's got their degrees, and for everyone who is going on to a Masters....hopefully my plan for next year too

- Seraphim -

I know how you feel - I have an 80% average 2i!

charlie007

I also got my MA. So pleased it is over. Sleep now for a while!