Failing Final Year Exams

laoch08

Think i have failed 1 or 2 final year law exams.
does anyone know what this means.
if i repeat in autumn is it just a nothing degree like...

D-Generate

In my faculty it used to be the case that if you failed an exam you automatically could only achieve at best a pass degree even if your average was 70%+. Seemed kind of unfair. However they changed that system two years ago so that now if you fail an exam you repeat in August capped at 40% but you receive whatever degree title corresponds to your exams average once all results have been received. Hence if your average is 66% taking in to account the failed exam then you will get a 2H1 whereas you used to receive a pass. Compensation was removed as part of the changes to the grading structure.
That's for the Engineering faculty so i am not sure if its same for the Law exam. For your sake I hope it is!

itsallaboutheL

D-Generate wrote: »

In my faculty it used to be the case that if you failed an exam you automatically could only achieve at best a pass degree even if your average was 70%+. Seemed kind of unfair. However they changed that system two years ago so that now if you fail an exam you repeat in August capped at 40% but you receive whatever degree title corresponds to your exams average once all results have been received. Hence if your average is 66% taking in to account the failed exam then you will get a 2H1 whereas you used to receive a pass. Compensation was removed as part of the changes to the grading structure.
That's for the Engineering faculty so i am not sure if its same for the Law exam. For your sake I hope it is!

I must say you were looking dashing outside the librarararaary today:p
whats a Lec Eng student doing wandering around there anyway???!

keane2097

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

I must say you were looking dashing outside the librarararaary today:p
whats a Lec Eng student doing wandering around there anyway???!

Mister Degenerate always looks dashing dontcha know :pac:

sm.org

laoch08 wrote: »

Think i have failed 1 or 2 final year law exams.
does anyone know what this means.
if i repeat in autumn is it just a nothing degree like...

You know like thats like the way the chips fall like....

overmantle

Sounds only fair if you go through the hassle of having to do repeats that if you do well in them, you should get the credit for it.

overmantle

If you had no hope of achieving an honours mark, it would take from your motivation.

ilikerashers

Doesn't matter a toss anyway what level of degree you get so don't spend too much time worrying about it.

adamd164

ilikerashers wrote: »

Doesn't matter a toss anyway what level of degree you get

How do you work that one out?

ilikerashers

Did engineering about 5 years ago, I remember the pandemonium over levels and all that. Employers don't really care, places like consultancies and banks have this 1st only policy but majority in there don't have it themselves, it's just for their terrible graduate programs. Some people I've met in the investment banking circuit don't even have degrees so my advice is if you have to repeat, don't think too much about it, life's not over. In the long run those things don't matter.

keane2097

ilikerashers wrote: »

Did engineering about 5 years ago, I remember the pandemonium over levels and all that. Employers don't really care, places like consultancies and banks have this 1st only policy but majority in there don't have it themselves, it's just for their terrible graduate programs. Some people I've met in the investment banking circuit don't even have degrees so my advice is if you have to repeat, don't think too much about it, life's not over. In the long run those things don't matter.

Yup that's what I've heard from pretty much anyone I've spoken to about it...

Benhonan

Those finals were a [EMAIL="b@stard"]b@stard[/EMAIL] alright, goddam equity... A good friend of mine failed equity last year, I think he got a mark of 30% and he still came away with a 2h2 degree and no repeats so it's not all bad. If not then I'll cya in August!