Appealing a grade - sorta money saving

whitewing

I think you should appeal too. As another poster said, you will always wonder otherwise. But also because the person who marked yours may have made a mistake and may therefore go on and make further mistakes, which may make the difference between different grades for you.
If it gets remarked and the examiner was right, then you have an opportunity to learn from the process. This would be a good answer for the kind of career interview question: how do you handle feedback, or how do you feel about making mistakes - if you are very careful with your wording and tone of voice, it's a gentle reminder that your 'first' was the result of consistently hard work and not something that you take for granted.
Well done.

crazy_guy

What about when re-assessing they go on to state that its worth less than 58% - they are in they're right to do so. If it can go up it can come down aswell. Do you want to risk your degree classification??

Voyager2002

crazy_guy wrote: »

What about when re-assessing they go on to state that its worth less than 58% - they are in they're right to do so. If it can go up it can come down aswell. Do you want to risk your degree classification??

From the information given in the original post, I think this is extremely unlikely.

kittymary

I think that the best thing to do would be to get in touch with whoever supervised your dissertation, and ask what it was that led to you getting a much lower grade, and whether they think you have reasonable grounds for an appeal.

Normally, grounds for an appeal means something like you didn't get enough supervision when writing the dissertation- less than the standard, or you were given bad advice, or your dissertation didn't get second marked, for example. Since you were warned that the approach you took might lead to a lower grade you probably aren't going to be successful in your appeal. Just not agreeing with the grade isn't normally considered grounds for appeal. It's also worth bearing in mind that it is pretty normal to get a lower grade for the dissertation than for your other work, just because the dissertation is harder than a normal essay, the standards are that bit higher.

I was in a similar situation, my undergraduate dissertation was on a topic that was a little bit out of the mainstream for my discipline, which was absolutely fine with my lecturers, but unfortunately not with the rather old fashioned external examiner. I had originally got 69%, but the external wanted to take it down to 59%- so from nearly a first, to a 2:1. My lecturers backed me up, but in the end I still lost 5 marks. I wasn't all that bothered in the end, as I was happy with the work I had done, and it didn't stop me getting a first, or getting funding for my MA.

Congratulations on getting that first, I'm sorry to not have more encouraging advice,

Kitty