Explain degree grades please?

Farls · 18-12-2004 09:20PM #1

Hey just wondering if somebody here could explain degree grades exactly to me, what i'm looking for is this

1.1 = > ??%
2.1= > ??% && < ??%
etc....

if ya could list out all the grades i'd be greatful because i can't find anybody who actually knows

Cheers

Farlz

Lump · 18-12-2004 10:22PM

AFAIK in England anyway, Greater then 70% is a 1.1, 55% - 70% is a 2.1, 40% - 55% is a 2.2

I could be wrong.

secret_squirrel · 18-12-2004 10:30PM

Lump wrote:

I could be wrong

You are - my course was graded on a bell shaped curve (it was a physics course) therefore the pass mark for a 1st, 2.1, desmond changed every year.

Having said that you wouldnt be far off the mark with them - Id move them a little higher though.

Tiriel · 18-12-2004 10:46PM

ok.
70%+ = 1st honours
60%-69% = 2.1 (since this year.. used to be 62%)
after that I'm not sure sorry but these two are definitely right!!

Farls · 18-12-2004 11:33PM

Cheers for that, thats what i was thinking but wasn't quite sure.

Its just their never really explained that well i don't think.

cheers

Farlz

combs · 18-12-2004 11:48PM

1 = 70% or greater

< 70% = the bitterest disappointment ever and a waste of time

Lump · 19-12-2004 12:07AM

combs wrote:

1 = 70% or greater

< 70% = the bitterest disappointment ever and a waste of time

Tell me about it, I got 66.4%

Then again, I'm working in the BBC.... so who cares about grades?

John

elbee · 20-12-2004 03:32PM

In UCD at least, they go like this:

1st - 70%+
2.1 - 60-69%
2.2 - 50-59%
3rd - 45-49%
Pass - 40-44%

Farls · 20-12-2004 03:36PM

When you look at it like that it seems so easy to get a 1st.

*note to self: do more college work

Farlz

uberwolf · 20-12-2004 03:37PM

a colleague of mine last year had a job offer pending a british 2.1 - which was 64% curiously he got that on the nose

briano · 20-12-2004 03:39PM

> 40% (or 50% if you're doing health sciences I think) == A Degree. Nobody will care when you have a few years experience.

uberwolf · 20-12-2004 03:41PM

briano wrote:

. Nobody will care when you have a few years experience.

maybe, but in the mean time it matters a whole pile. I'm doing a masters at the mo and I still can't get passed the automated filtering in the online job applications because of my 2.2 at degree level.

Farls · 20-12-2004 03:44PM

uberwolf wrote:

maybe, but in the mean time it matters a whole pile. I'm doing a masters at the mo and I still can't get passed the automated filtering in the online job applications because of my 2.2 at degree level.

That just put the ****s up me!

uberwolf · 20-12-2004 03:47PM

it was kinda meant to, kinda not. Don't let it worry you, more motivate you. Jobs are still out there. McKinsay for example require 500 leaving cert points and a first class degree before they'll blink at you. Other specify 2.1 minimum, other 2.2. Really depends what you're looking to get into. And where.

briano · 20-12-2004 03:51PM

I'm doing a masters as well at the moment and one thing I've noticed is the difference in degree standards. There is a guy in my class who gets everything working and can pick up something new and figure it out straight away, but who didn't get a first. Then there are people who did get 1:1's from different colleges but don't seem as capable.

And unfortunatly then there is me. I didn't get a first, and I can't do any of the work. Boo Hoo

GoneShootin · 20-12-2004 04:01PM

uberwolf wrote:

maybe, but in the mean time it matters a whole pile. I'm doing a masters at the mo and I still can't get passed the automated filtering in the online job applications because of my 2.2 at degree level.

Same as me! Damn this grading system. One subject really ****ed me up from getting the 2.1. Compiler Construction, who the **** cares!!!"!"!"%$!^"!6

/enraged

uberwolf · 20-12-2004 04:03PM

distrib operating systems was my drop.

/vengeful - way past enraged

its a very crude measure of your appitude for learning. I guess they need something. If they took 30 secs to look at my cv they'd be intrsd.

GoneShootin · 21-12-2004 01:42AM

uberwolf - http://www.michaelrea.com/Michael_Rea_CV.doc << my CV.

I care not that my personal details are on there, we all friends here

AlisonB · 21-12-2004 02:06AM

Nice ~CV .. I did a B.Sc H.Dip and M.Sc in Software Engineering... so our knowledge would be similar. ...

RicardoSmith · 21-12-2004 02:23AM

briano wrote:

I'm doing a masters as well at the moment and one thing I've noticed is the difference in degree standards. There is a guy in my class who gets everything working and can pick up something new and figure it out straight away, but who didn't get a first. Then there are people who did get 1:1's from different colleges but don't seem as capable.

And unfortunatly then there is me. I didn't get a first, and I can't do any of the work. Boo Hoo

Welcome to the real world!!! You'll see that a lot.

College grades aren't very reliable, as theres lot of mupperty in grading exams in college.

Tiriel · 21-12-2004 02:37AM

also it is amazing the difference between departments regarding things like late submissions!! I mean in English Dept. in UCC it is down to 40% immediately for late submissions.. and others it is 3% deducted per week.. how is that fair?!! In UCD at the moment it is 10% deducted per week..

hmm..

Farls · 22-12-2004 01:25AM

Cork_girl wrote:

also it is amazing the difference between departments regarding things like late submissions!! I mean in English Dept. in UCC it is down to 40% immediately for late submissions.. and others it is 3% deducted per week.. how is that fair?!! In UCD at the moment it is 10% deducted per week..

hmm..

I'd have to agree there, i'm doing computing myself and i have to say that due to a lack of numbers in my course recently things are favouring us, ie. the grades were dropped from needing 55% to get into the diploma year to only needing a pass.

We also get make ups for nearly everything apart from a few bastard lecturers, this usen't to be the case though.

Farlz

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