How is the grade/level of your degree worked out?

filmbuffboy

HI guys,

Couldn't find any info on this online. Mabye someone here can help. How exactly is the final grade for your degree worked out? Do they simply take your average from both years, add them together and divide them by two? I am in arts by the way.

I was told before that if you do better in third year than you did in second year then they just take your grades for third year when issuing you with a 1:1, 2:1 etc.

any clarity on this would be appreciated thanks!

joeKel73

Different with different courses, don't know what the story is with Arts. When I did engineering it was either your final year mark, or 50% final year and 50% third year... whichever was better.

KittyeeTrix

For undenominated Science it was supposed to be
5% - 2nd year
15% - 3rd year
80% - 4th year

but this has now become
20% - 3rd year
80% - 4th year due to a problem with the computers working it out or summat along those lines!

Belmono

Hi
For Arts, it goes like this, as far as I know:
You get both individual subject marks and an overall mark which is a combination of both. If your mark in Second Arts was higher than your Final Arts mark, you get an average of both. If your mark in Final Arts is higher than your Second Arts results, the Second Arts result is ignored.

Here’s an example:
2BA
English – 60
Soc & Pol – 52
Overall 2BA mark = 56

3BA/Final Arts (whichever is more relevant - BA Connect/BA International will be in their fourth year)
English – 70
Soc & Pol - 48
Overall 3BA mark = 59

Overall English mark = 70 (Final Arts better than Second Arts)
Overall Soc & Pol mark = average of 52 and 48 = 50

Overall BA degree mark = Overall Eng + Overall Soc & Pol = (70+50) = 60.

So you’re walking out with a 2.1 in your BA, even though one of your subjects isn’t at 2.1 level.

filmbuffboy

Belmono wrote: »

Hi
For Arts, it goes like this, as far as I know:
You get both individual subject marks and an overall mark which is a combination of both. If your mark in Second Arts was higher than your Final Arts mark, you get an average of both. If your mark in Final Arts is higher than your Second Arts results, the Second Arts result is ignored.

Here’s an example:
2BA
English – 60
Soc & Pol – 52
Overall 2BA mark = 56

3BA/Final Arts (whichever is more relevant - BA Connect/BA International will be in their fourth year)
English – 70
Soc & Pol - 48
Overall 3BA mark = 59

Overall English mark = 70 (Final Arts better than Second Arts)
Overall Soc & Pol mark = average of 52 and 48 = 50

Overall BA degree mark = Overall Eng + Overall Soc & Pol = (70+50) = 60.

So you’re walking out with a 2.1 in your BA, even though one of your subjects isn’t at 2.1 level.

Thats great man cheers.

Caiseoipe19

Belmono wrote: »

Hi
For Arts, it goes like this, as far as I know:
You get both individual subject marks and an overall mark which is a combination of both. If your mark in Second Arts was higher than your Final Arts mark, you get an average of both. If your mark in Final Arts is higher than your Second Arts results, the Second Arts result is ignored.

Here’s an example:
2BA
English – 60
Soc & Pol – 52
Overall 2BA mark = 56

3BA/Final Arts (whichever is more relevant - BA Connect/BA International will be in their fourth year)
English – 70
Soc & Pol - 48
Overall 3BA mark = 59

Overall English mark = 70 (Final Arts better than Second Arts)
Overall Soc & Pol mark = average of 52 and 48 = 50

Overall BA degree mark = Overall Eng + Overall Soc & Pol = (70+50) = 60.

So you’re walking out with a 2.1 in your BA, even though one of your subjects isn’t at 2.1 level.

When you say, "as far as I know"...how certain are you or where did you hear this, if you don't mind me asking? It's just I'm sure I always believed that it was all based on third year regardless of second year results. Hopefully you're right though cause I've made a balls of third year!

Belmono

Em, I work in the College of Arts

Caiseoipe19

Well I suppose I can't question that well so! Thanks, that's a bit of good news for me today!

John1202

KittyeeTrix wrote: »

For undenominated Science it was supposed to be
5% - 2nd year
15% - 3rd year
80% - 4th year

but this has now become
20% - 3rd year
80% - 4th year due to a problem with the computers working it out or summat along those lines!

Hi, do you happen to have a source for the change in the scheme from 2nd year being 5% to 0%? I'm in 2nd year Undenominated now and didn't hear that but it's great news for me if it's the case!

Thanks.

KittyeeTrix

One of the lecturers told us.......:)

sunrise91

Officially 2nd year is meant to be worth 5% and third year is 15% but the computer can't calculate it. So unless they find a program to figure this out for them third year will be worth 20%.

mathperson

Interesting, I would have presumed NUIG possessed the computing power necessary for such a task.

Raging_Ninja

mathperson wrote: »

Interesting, I would have presumed NUIG possessed the computing power necessary for such a task.

Its definitely can't be a "computing power" problem since the calculation is as basic as they come.

sunrise91

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Its definitely can't be a "computing power" problem since the calculation is as basic as they come.

True, but they don't have a program to carry out the calculation. And it doesn't make sense to calculate the grade for each student, each year manually.

ZRelation

That makes very little sense...maybe they've never heard of the wonders of Excel.

wallpaper12

Its definately not a computing problem, seriously that would be the worlds most basic code. The calculations for overall grades throughout the year would even be harder than that.
I was talking to man who was Dean of Science when this was introduced recently and he told me the reason why it changed but of course I cant for the life of me remember, think it was something about a lot of people getting bad grades in 2nd year or something so they decided to change it. It wasnt anything to do with computers anyway.

sunrise91

That's just what the lecturer told us. My third year results are good so all the better for my degree if they do take 20% from those!!