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  • 30-07-2009 2:32pm
    #1
    thesecretforme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Hey, I am applying for a postgraduate.

    Basically the requirements are an upper second class honours in the subjects of my BA.

    I think I have that, I just want to check with those in the know:

    my final mark was 388 out of 600. When I calculate that it's 64.6.... It is fair therefore to count that as 65% and thus a Second Class Honour Upper?


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  • #2
    El Siglo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    thesecretforme wrote: »
    Hey, I am applying for a postgraduate.

    Basically the requirements are an upper second class honours in the subjects of my BA.

    I think I have that, I just want to check with those in the know:

    my final mark was 388 out of 600. When I calculate that it's 64.6.... It is fair therefore to count that as 65% and thus a Second Class Honour Upper?

    Yeh, I'm pretty sure that's a 2.1, where did you go? I'm only asking because I know NUIM work on that, it depends on where you go i.e. DCU works differently to this.


  • #3
    convert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭convert


    64.6% would be considered a higher second class honours (2.1) for most universities.

    Re. counting it as 65%, most colleges will leave it at 64.6% rather than rounding it up. I know there was a friend of mine who received 69.7% in their degree and it remained a 2.1 rather than being rounded up to a first class degree.


  • #4
    thesecretforme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 104 ✭✭thesecretforme


    Lol, so I have nothing to be worried about?

    I don't know how can you impress people at an interview for your Postgraduates, it's a very dubious situation. It's hardly based on ability.


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