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Question about degree grade

  • 01-07-2009 8:40pm
    #1
    blueblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    Hi just wondering if anyone knows how you determine your degree grade. I barely passed 1st and 2nd year but got a 2:1 in third year. Does this mean i have a 2:1 degree???


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  • #2
    raviravi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭raviravi


    hi blueblue if you classification / qualification says 2.1 then yes you have a 2.1 degree, what are your subjects the results should also be beside them


  • #3
    blueblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭blueblue


    In my results last week, i got a 2:1 in both subjects.
    I requested transcript of results for a postgrad application and 1st and 2nd years crappy results are on there...does this matter? Is it just final year that counts?

    Thanks


  • #4
    raviravi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭raviravi


    from what i know you normally only need a 2.1 in the subject in which you intend doing your postgraduate, ps well done that is some inprovement


  • #5
    blueblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭blueblue


    OK, cool. Just had to check, had a bit of a panic attack there :pac:
    Ha thanks, i've just come out of hibernation...long year!!


  • #6
    Effluo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Effluo


    Did i hear correctly that 1st year results have no bearing on your finals?


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  • #7
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Think it depends on the degree you're doing, usually it's the 1st and 2nd year results mean feck all, others they take them into account in your 3rd/4th year.


  • #8
    pakblue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 81 ✭✭pakblue


    Taken from the Calendar
    The final year subject mark will incorporate, where relevant, the penultimate year mark weighted at 30%, applied only to the student’s advantage. For students whose penultimate year is spent abroad on one of the BA International programmes, the Second-Year mark is used. Where students are pursuing a joint honours programme in the penultimate year and progress to a single honours programme in final year the penultimate mark of the relevant subject is used.

    http://www.nuim.ie/calendar/rules/documents/MarksandStandards_001.pdf

    So its 30% of 2nd last year and 70% of final year or 100% of final year. Which ever one is higher they will take that as your final grade.


  • #9
    Wendero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭Wendero


    Any way to know what the rules are for different programs?

    /John


  • #10
    AdmaialNimitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 126 ✭✭AdmaialNimitz


    Wendero wrote: »
    Any way to know what the rules are for different programs?

    /John

    talk to your department - theyre good like that.

    Also just a heads up, but 1st and 2nd year results are used by Grant Awarding agency's if you decide to apply for Post Graduate Degree Funding.


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