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  • #122
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    That is really weird, I got 691/1000 in law last year and they classed it a first.

    Edit: I cannot brain good, and got mixed up between upper and lower seconds. Don't mind me. I am dumb.


  • #123
    freeze4real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Guys, am I right in thinking that a 59.5 is still considered a 2.1?


    yes


  • #124
    CSSE09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭CSSE09


    How so Joe wrote: »
    That is really weird, I got 691/1000 in law last year and they classed it a first.

    If you get 691 or higher it's classed as a first, I'd assume it's the same for all of the others 591 to 690 for a 2.1


  • #125
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    CSSE09 wrote: »
    If you get 691 or higher it's classed as a first, I'd assume it's the same for all of the others 591 to 690 for a 2.1

    I cannot brain good. I got confused between 2:1s and 2:2s.


  • #126
    Lucas14777
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭Lucas14777


    I know in other Universities like UL and UCC that your first year marks do not go towards your final degree. Is that the same for nuim or does it count?


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  • #127
    macgrub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭macgrub


    Lucas14777 wrote: »
    I know in other Universities like UL and UCC that your first year marks do not go towards your final degree. Is that the same for nuim or does it count?

    No. In NUIM, your first year marks do not count towards your degree.


  • #128
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Actually, you know the way that you use a third of your second last year results towards your degree mark? What happens if you have donr work placement (or erasmus actually) for that year? Do they count your second year results then or do you have to rely solely on third year?


  • #129
    CSSE09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭CSSE09


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Actually, you know the way that you use a third of your second last year results towards your degree mark? What happens if you have donr work placement (or erasmus actually) for that year? Do they count your second year results then or do you have to rely solely on third year?

    Just in case you didn't know they only take 30% of your penultimate years mark if it's to your advantage. I don't know how the erasmus works but my 3rd year work placement was specified as a 30 credit module which we were marked out of so they would have taken my overall 3rd year marks in to account(again if it was to my advantage).

    * Just to clarify mine was a 4 year course.


  • #130
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »
    Actually, you know the way that you use a third of your second last year results towards your degree mark? What happens if you have donr work placement (or erasmus actually) for that year? Do they count your second year results then or do you have to rely solely on third year?

    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.
    Source


  • #131
    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    Thanks CSSE, I was aware of that.
    How so Joe wrote: »
    From the calendar:
    Source

    Cheers, my placement was a full 60 credits and was only marked on a pass/fail basis so I'll take it that my second year results count.


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  • #132
    I Am_Not_Ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭I Am_Not_Ice


    At the conferral ceremony in September, do we graduate in alphabetical order? As in those with surnames beginning with A through I on the first day, then J through R on the second, and S onwards on the third? Or is it based on academic achievement?


  • #133
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    Graduations are organised by course and alphabetically within the course.
    So if you're, say, arts, and your surname begins with b, you'll graduate probably in the first ceremony on the first day. But if your surname begins with b and you're general science, you'll be one of the later ceremonies.
    But you're not organised by achievement.
    The only exception to that is in science - the ordinary level degrees graduate in a group, as do the honours degrees. As far as I recall, single honours and double honours graduate separately too.


  • #134
    Jacques Mesrine
    Site Banned Posts: 43 ✭Jacques Mesrine


    Are final year repeats capped at 40%??


  • #135
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    If you're in Engineering, yes.
    If you're not, then you can repeat up to 15 credits and still obtain honours for the year.
    Talk to your department on consultation day if you can. If not, read this very carefully
    Relevant section:
    Repeating for Honours
    Honours are not normally awarded in repeat examinations. The following rules apply to final year. Students may
    repeat modules (once only) up to 15 credits (of the 60 available) in the autumn supplemental examination or in the
    examinations in the subsequent year and still retain the entitlement to an honours award, which includes the
    contribution from the repeated modules. A student who chooses to repeat a passed module, or to take a new module
    in lieu of a passed module, in order to try and improve a result must relinquish the mark first obtained and accept
    either 40% or the mark obtained at the second sitting, thus obtaining a lower result on such a module may result in a
    lower class of Honours being awarded in both the subject and/or the overall qualification than was originally offered.
    This provision of repeating and still having the right to obtain honours is being introduced on a pilot basis to allow
    flexibility in the system to cope with students who due to certified or uncertified illness, trauma, stress or other factors
    may have been absent for, or have under-performed in, some components of their examinations.
    Students may reject their degree result and elect to repeat their entire degree examination (once only) in a subsequent
    year. Honours may be awarded in such cases.
    Students pursuing joint honours programmes may retain their result in one subject and repeat the other subject (once
    only) in its entirety, in a subsequent year, to try to improve their grade in the second subject. Similarly students may
    repeat the Major component of a major-minor programme (once only) in its entirety, in a subsequent year, to try to
    improve their grade in that subject. In such cases honours will also be classified in the Degree qualification.
    Other than the above, students who repeat modules worth more than 15 credits lose the entitlement to obtain honours
    in the subjects they are repeating, and in the overall qualification, but may retain any honours award already obtained
    in their other subjects. Honours will not then be awarded in the subjects in the autumn supplemental or subsequent
    repeat examinations. Exceptions to this rule will be made only in the gravest of circumstances.


  • #136
    Jacques Mesrine
    Site Banned Posts: 43 ✭Jacques Mesrine


    Missed out on a 2.1 by 1 %. totally sucks. Gona go back and repeat one exam.

    Never in the field of academic achievement, was so much lost by so little


  • #137
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    A friend of mine, last year, missed out on a first by a fraction of a percent. I think it was something like two marks out of a thousand. So she repeated the whole year.
    I thought she was mental. But I don't know what her result was this year. Maybe she got the first.


  • #138
    Jacques Mesrine
    Site Banned Posts: 43 ✭Jacques Mesrine


    How so Joe wrote: »
    A friend of mine, last year, missed out on a first by a fraction of a percent. I think it was something like two marks out of a thousand. So she repeated the whole year.
    I thought she was mental. But I don't know what her result was this year. Maybe she got the first.

    That sounds a bit extreme. But I think its times like this which are defining moments in peoples lives.


  • #139
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    How so Joe wrote: »
    A friend of mine, last year, missed out on a first by a fraction of a percent. I think it was something like two marks out of a thousand. So she repeated the whole year.
    I thought she was mental. But I don't know what her result was this year. Maybe she got the first.

    I hope she only decided to repeat after appealing and sitting the exams in August... Otherwise she easily just wasted six grand.


  • #140
    How so Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭How so Joe


    Seren_ wrote: »
    I hope she only decided to repeat after appealing and sitting the exams in August... Otherwise she easily just wasted six grand.

    I would assume so. She's the girlfriend of my boyfriend 's friend, so we're not exactly bosom buddies or close confidants. But she's not a fool.


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