how do i work out my QCA?

irishguy

does anyone know what all the different grades are so i acn work out me QCA plz

John2002

You're in UL I presume? I remember seeing it in their student handbook a few years back, can't for the life of me remember how to figure it out though.

irishguy

no LIT , but i just wanted to work it out, found out off a friend of mine in UL it was 2.3 which is quite good seen as i didnt do a tap

sceptre

Should be in your student handbook.

Assuming each grade gets the same credits you can ignore that part (just completely ignore any subjects you do on a pass/fail or audit basis).

Convert to equivalent numbers, divide by number of subjects to get QCA for a term.

For cumulative it's a little more difficult as you probably have different weightings for different years (just double the totals for these). Ditto if you've any subjects that are themselves double-weighted. If you've a system where some subjects are worth three credits and some four, don't even think about working it out at all.

People used to regard my ability to work out QCAs [1] in my head as some kind of circus trick.

[1]Call them GPAs. It confuses slow people & annoys heads of department who take their position too seriously, all with no effort on your part.


A QCA of 2.3 (I'm assuming it's a max of 4?) is something I'd have regarded as somewhere between "not too bad" and "whayhay" when I was a law and accounting type going to no lectures at all. My results from Christmas in my replacement course were rather higher than that from just actually going to lectures. When I was younger I really didn't appreciate the difference doing something like that could make. A 2.0 is required by UL (and presumably LIT) in order to get through to the next year. 2.0 would of course be nowhere close to anything but a bare pass degree.

2.3 is a C to C+ average - given that we should all rate ourself on our own standard rather than taking place in some bleedin race you may decide for yourself whether that's wonderfully fantastic or woefully abysmal.

BossArky

A1 = 4.0
A2 = 3.6
B1 = 3.2
B2 = 3.0
B3 = 2.8
C1 = 2.6
C2 = 2.4
C3 = 2.0
D1 = 1.6
D2 = 1.2

Add them up and average them out:

E.G. if you got an A1, B2, and C3, then your QCA would be:

(4 + 3 + 2) / 3 = 3

QCA = 3.0

A 1.1 degree is >= 3.4
2.1 degree is >= 3.0
2.2 degree is >= 2.7
anything less is a pass degree.


Its no circus trick just a bit of basic arithmetic that is probably still taught in primary school.

Should you have different weightings for different modules then just do this:

i.e. if your A1 module was weighted at 4 credits, B2 was 3 credits and C3 was 3 credits again then the sums would be

(((4.0 * 4) + (3.0 * 3) + (2.0 * 3)) / 10) ...here you divide by the sum of the credit weightings which is 10

((16 + 9 + 6) / 10 )
31 / 10

QCA = 3.1

I always wonder how it is that people can be at Uni and be unable to work out this basic maths task. The mind boggles.

Seana Mitchell

Hey ya
My qca in ul is 2.69.anybody confirm that that is a 2.2.
im in ul:D