Thread of Commiserations and Congratulations

Slippers

Here's mine:

Design of Experiments: D-
Actuarial Statistics I: D+
Statistical Inference I: B+
Linear Models I: A
Survey Sampling: A+
Biostatistics: A+
Probability Distributions: A+

GPA: 3.51

Post Yours!

theleprechaun

GPA 3.95 and delighted!!

stereoroid

Results are a little weird... I got an A in the subject I hated the most (Physics for Engineers), the one that I thought I would have trouble passing... bell curve? Maybe it was the course, after all, and not just me.

In detailed results, I see I got 67% for the exam (weight 0.4), though I did only 3 of the 4 questions... and the same for continuous assesment (0.3)... but got 94% on the lab work that made up the other 30%. That I did not expect - I didn't finish some labs, from being too slow and repeating steps - but I guess I was marked on what I actually did. Result. :cool:

Dave!

Data Structures & Algorithms I D+ (high rate of failure in this, and I'm sh*t at programming..... dunno how I passed, but thank the FSM!)

Web Multimedia: An Overview A+ (expected a good grade in this... I suspect that quite alot of people got A's)

Databases and Info. Systems I C+ (I only understood about 50% of this course, so thrilled with this result)

Renaissance to Enlightenment E (hated this course and it was terribly co-ordinated, so was expecting to fail outright... happy to have the possible compensation! I bet if I did that essay I woulda passed )

West & Middle East 1919-73 C+ (liked this course, kinda woulda liked a B, but oh well!)

Northern Ireland B- (pretty happy! This exam was at 12pm the day after my brother's wedding, so I got about 2.5 hours sleep and was still sorta drunk for it)

Tom65

Individuals & the State: B+
Comparative Politics: A-
Northern Ireland: B
Renaissance to Enlightenment: C+ (I thought I'd done better in this exam, I think a C- essay dragged me down a bit)
Rationalism & Empiricism: C
US History: B

Got a GPA of 3.33, which I'm a bit disappointed with. With the amount of study I did I hoped to get closer to a 1.1. I would've been happy with 3.45 or above. Ah well.

Umaro

GPA 3.3

1 A, 3 B, 1 D

Bastards in history department gave me a D in a 1st year elective. What the hell?!?

princess-sprkle

wahey, i got 4 Bs, 2 Cs. SO HAPPY I COULD CRY!!
bar anyone?

Jonny Arson

A+
A+
A-
B+
B+
B
= GPA 3.8

i'm absolutely ****ing ecstatic! \o/

i worked out on my calculator that barring a catastrophe of epic proportions i'm guaranteed 2.1 degree as long as i show up for the final lot of exams in May so that means postgraduate study here i come! i also think i need a semester 2 GPA of 3.51 to get a first class honours, f**k it's going to be close

anyway congrats to everyone and anyone who is a disappointed or generally did sh!t it's not the end of the world, there is still another semester to put things right

tribulus

For someone who is still in semi-modularised purgatory, could someone please explain to me what grades equal what % ranges?

Being told GPA's and grades mean nothing to me and merely confuse my senile mind.

//oldschool lol

Slippers

www.ucd.ie/registry/alu/documents/Modular_Grades_Explained.pdf

It's not totally clear, but it's a start.

tribulus

Ah perfect, thanks.

So a 2.2 so far from two exams, six more written exams, a thesis submission, a thesis presentation and an mcq and i'll know more!.

Slippers

I've just looked at the breakdown within each of my modules (click the blue numbers on the left). Homework in one of them is worth .15 and I got 40% on it but it's down as 5%. I've still got the homework, with the grades written on the fronts, so I'll be bringing them in later.

Paul Tergat

can someone please post guide to converting results into percentages (wont load from SIS for me) and these letters mean nothing to me without the percentages.

Cheers

Slippers

Click on the "CRN" numbers to the left of your modules and it will tell you what percent you got in your homework and what percent you got in your exam.

percent x weight + percent x weight = percent for that module

randomchild

Middle Ages I A-
Eighteenth-Century Literature B
Renaissance to Enlightenment C
China, Japan and Korea 1549-19 B+
West & Middle East 1919-73 C+
Japanese L & C (ab initio) B-

GPA: 3.3

Fairly happy with those results. All my hard modules were in this semester tbh, so I will be looking to bump the GPA up next semester. Thought I had got a grade higher in West and Middle East and Asian histories, but there you go.

stardust_dublin

this attachment can be used to figure out whether you got a 1st, 2.1 or 2.2 etc

jimi_t

Middle Ages I B-
Eighteenth-Century Literature C+
Foundations of Western Thought A-

And have passed my three repeats. Happy happy fun time. Allez le swing ball!

Slippers

I've been reading some of the pdfs here
http://www.ucd.ie/registry/alu/exam_results.htm
and I now see that every module where you get over 76.67% counts the same towards your GPA (as a 4.2). I have an 82.45, an 89.9 and a 93.9 which bring my average over 70% (a First) but they're all counted as 4.2 which means my GPA is 3.51. I haven't found what that equates to yet but it's not a First. In conclusion,
Boo Modularisation! We're being robbed.

Edit: I see it equates to a 2.1

Edit2: I put it more clearly on the next page.

Raphael

COMP10010 Introduction to Programming I A+
MAPH20080 Analytical & Quantum Mechanics B-
MAPH20150 Vector Calculus B-
MATH20030 Linear Models in the Sciences A+
PHYC20010 Electromagnetism and Optics C
PHYC20020 Introductory Quantum Mechanics B

Overall GPA: 3.5

Quite satisfied with that, especially since the A+ subjests are the ones I didn;t go to lectuers in since they were stupid and/or easy. I also got ridiculously high markes in COMP10010, 97% for assignments and 100% for the exam. \o/

Stepherunie

tribulus wrote: »

For someone who is still in semi-modularised purgatory, could someone please explain to me what grades equal what % ranges?

Being told GPA's and grades mean nothing to me and merely confuse my senile mind.

//oldschool lol

If you click on the CRN code seom of them give you a break down of your marks in percentages....

Old school is great but so suckie that it's all over the place.

Iwanna

Yo Stardust, where did you get that from, because it would move me from happy to very happy as I got 3.17 , which on the document is a 2.1, rather than what I perceived to be a 2.2.

stardust_dublin

i got it off another ucd thread on how to calculate your gpa into a degree classification. i think its legitimate.. because anything above 3.08 is a 2.1 as far as i know. what did you think was classed as a 2.1?

Tom65

Slippers wrote: »

I've been reading some of the pdfs here
http://www.ucd.ie/registry/alu/exam_results.htm
and I now see that every module where you get over 76.67% counts the same towards your GPA (as a 4.2). I have an 82.45, an 89.9 and a 93.9 which bring my average over 70% (a First) but they're all counted as 4.2 which means my GPA is 3.51. I haven't found what that equates to yet but it's not a First. In conclusion,
Boo Modularisation! We're being robbed.

Edit: I see it equates to a 2.1

That is thoroughly confusing. How does your GPA go down if you have 4 subjects counted as 4.2?

remus808

Absolutely delighted with my results!!:


COMP10010: Introduction To Programming 1: A+
Practicals: 99% (40%)
Final Exam: 100% (60%)

COMP10030: Algrorithmic Problem Solving: A+
Assignment 1: 100% (20%)
Assignment 2: 90% (20%)
Assignment 3: 100% (20%)
Final Exam: 87% (40%)

PSY10050: Introduction To Psychology: A-
Essay: A (40%)
Final Exam: B+ (60%)

LING10010: Language Use & Communication: B-
Essay: C (50%)
Final Exam: B (50%)

GER10030: German Textual Analysis: B
Essay: A- (30%)
Final Exam: B- (70%)

GER10010: German Language 1A: D
Grammar & Free Writing: C+ (30%)
Oral Presentation: E+ (20%)
Final Exam: D- (50%)


Semester One GPA: 3.5

Iwanna

Stardust,
Just went by that in another document (sorry, in college, can't immediately give reference), that state b- = 3.2 gpa. So I was assuming that b- was as low as a 2.1 would go, but that is the only thing I go by to be honest, I phoned, plus just this moment spoke to the programme office, and basically they said they were not sure, but if I sent a formal letter they would look into it.....

stardust_dublin

Ok well im nearly positive a 2.1 is gpa of 3.08. 90% sure.

MarkOShea

Yeah I always presumed 3.8 was a first.

Got A+, A+, A, B+, B, B- for 3.77 meself.

Happier now!

Stepherunie

The whole thing makes no sense, I got the percentage marks in my two exams, got 65 in each.

One was marked as a B, the other a B-.

MarkOShea

Think they should both be B's. I got 1 module 65% aswell and got a B for it anyway. 64-66.9% should be the range.

Stepherunie

Cool - our results will be converted back to percentages anyway at least.

Waltons

Foundations of Computing - B+

Program Construction I - A+

Object-Oriented Programming - A+

Advanced Quan Economics - A

Advanced Microeconomics - A+

Applied Econometrics I - B-

Which gives a GPA of 3.9!

Absolutely shocked at the Quants result, was not expecting anything near an A. Little disappointed with the Econometrics, but one of our assignment grades is wrong so we'll have to talk about that. Also extremely happy with the Foundations of Computing result, found that course fairly interesting, but got bogged down in the heavy maths.

Overall, I'm ecstatic

Congrats to the rest of you!

Cannibal Ox

International Justice - B-
Integration, Fragmentation - A-
Millenenium Development Goals - B+
Political Sociology - B-
Sociological Theory - B

Pretty shocked, thats the best I've ever done in any kind of exam/results thing.

Slippers

Tom65 wrote: »

That is thoroughly confusing. How does your GPA go down if you have 4 subjects counted as 4.2?

I should have been more clear. I have three 4.2s but my other four grades are lower.

In old money my grades are:

93.9
89.9
82.45
76.615
68.4
49.6
46.8 (pending speeking to office about incorrect homework grade)

average = 72.52 = a 1st (70% and up)

What has happened is this:

93.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
89.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
82.45 --> A+ --> 4.2
76.615 -> A ---> 4
68.4 ---> B+ --> 3.6
49.6 ---> D+ --> 2.4
46.8 ---> D+ --> 2.4

average = 3.57 = not a 1st (3.68 and up)

lemon_sherbert

I'm really happy, considering it was my first ever set of college marks, even if we only had four.

Principles of Macroeconomics B+
Introduction to Computers and Info Sys A
Maths for Business 1 A+
Constitutional Frameworks B-

Not looking forward to the extra long all year module exams next term...
But enjoying the 3.75 GPA for now!

Congrats everybody, the results are great so far!

Joneser

Hey, all, congratulations on the results.
I only got 2.87 GPA but only in first year so was wondering if first year goes towards what your final degree is (1.1 1.2 etc.) or is that all worked out from your final year?

Stepherunie

Depends on your course.

Arts it's 50/50 for 2nd and 3rd year.

For a lot of 4 year courses its 30% for 3rd Year and 70% for final year.

I don't think first year counts in any degree though.

Joneser

Thank god for that, im in 4 year bsc compsci so another 1.5 years to doss before i have to start doing some work :P

Stepherunie

Check your marks and standards to see what the set is for your exact course though - as it differs for every one.

Pride Fighter

Early Roman Empire C+
Greek Tragedy B
Virgil's Aeneid C+
Renaissance to Enlightenment C
US History B+
West and Middle East D+

I am disappointed I did so crap, I let myself down last semester working 2 jobs and handing essays in late. Its the kick up the arse I needed for this semester though.I had to laugh for the CRN link beside Renaissance to Enlightenment, it said .2 for an 800 word essay when it was .2 for 2 1500 word essays. Thats a 3.03 GPA above, I'll learn from my mistakes and that poor performance will never happen again.

Breezer

stardust_dublin wrote: »

i got it off another ucd thread on how to calculate your gpa into a degree classification. i think its legitimate.. because anything above 3.08 is a 2.1 as far as i know. what did you think was classed as a 2.1?

It's legit, or at least the 3.68 equalling a first bit is - I've had it confirmed to me by the type of lecturer you'd trust on such matters

Tom65

Slippers wrote: »

I should have been more clear. I have three 4.2s but my other four grades are lower.

In old money my grades are:

93.9
89.9
82.45
76.615
68.4
49.6
46.8 (pending speeking to office about incorrect homework grade)

average = 72.52 = a 1st (70% and up)

What has happened is this:

93.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
89.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
82.45 --> A+ --> 4.2
76.615 -> A ---> 4
68.4 ---> B+ --> 3.6
49.6 ---> D+ --> 2.4
46.8 ---> D+ --> 2.4

average = 3.57 = not a 1st (3.68 and up)

Ah right. I commend you on your use of the phrase "old money". Bravo.

ghostchant

Differential Geometry: A+
Applied Quantum Mechanics: A+
Condensed Matter Physics: A+
Mathematical Biology: A+
Theoretical Astrophysics I: A+
Advanced Quantum Mechanics: A+

Catcher86

Slippers wrote: »

I should have been more clear. I have three 4.2s but my other four grades are lower.

In old money my grades are:

93.9
89.9
82.45
76.615
68.4
49.6
46.8 (pending speeking to office about incorrect homework grade)

average = 72.52 = a 1st (70% and up)

What has happened is this:

93.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
89.9 ---> A+ --> 4.2
82.45 --> A+ --> 4.2
76.615 -> A ---> 4
68.4 ---> B+ --> 3.6
49.6 ---> D+ --> 2.4
46.8 ---> D+ --> 2.4

average = 3.57 = not a 1st (3.68 and up)

This is why there has been alot of controversy over this new GPA within UCD. Effectively Slippers that extra 22% and 18% you put into your top two grades are worth nothing. Even if they are more fundamental to your course. Old system you get 1.1. New system you get 2.1.

Stepherunie wrote:

The whole thing makes no sense, I got the percentage marks in my two exams, got 65 in each.

One was marked as a B, the other a B-.

This was no mistake, it is the equivalent of an automatic bell curve. Possibly due to UCD having a reputation of being hard markers.

This new system will diminish the work of high achievers and make it harder to differentiate between the top graduates.
If you want a graduating GPA of 4.2 (1.1) aim for 77% in all of your modules.
Whether you are capable of 90+ is irrelevant, you will just be wasting your time.

stereoroid

ghostchant wrote: »

Differential Geometry: A+
Applied Quantum Mechanics: A+
Condensed Matter Physics: A+
Mathematical Biology: A+
Theoretical Astrophysics I: A+
Advanced Quantum Mechanics: A+

Congratulations! Yes, I would like fries with that...

Slippers

Tom65 wrote: »

Ah right. I commend you on your use of the phrase "old money". Bravo.

I duly commend you for "bravo".

Charlie

ghostchant wrote: »

Differential Geometry: A+
Applied Quantum Mechanics: A+
Condensed Matter Physics: A+
Mathematical Biology: A+
Theoretical Astrophysics I: A+
Advanced Quantum Mechanics: A+

This is me---->



Anways,

Advanced torts: A-
eCommerce Law: B+
Copyright and Designs Law: B-
GPA: 3.53

Very happy seeing as I reckoned that semester 1 was going to be damage limitaion due to numerous fcuk ups by admin. and timetabling.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

charlie mchugh wrote: »

This is me---->

Roflmao:D

Charlie

I see the Gestapo are out in force.

dhaddock

Intro to Programming 1 A+
Algorithmic Problem Solving A+
Intro to Human Geog 2 A+
Geog of Cities A-
Perspectives on Film C+
Biology of the Modern World D- (i think they passed me out of pity)

im happy!

Raphael

charlie mchugh wrote: »

I see the Gestapo are out in force.

Just doing what I can to keep the world a more civil place.

emeraldstar

Me = very