Degree classification advice?
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Fnaar
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Ditto 2:2 for me ... but then I got older and got a distinction in my MA 
Also depends when they got the 2:2. Up until about 5 years ago some 50% would get a desmond or a douglas hird, but now these have a rarity value. Some places give 80% 2:1 and 1sts so a 2:2 is a pretty good acheivement. This has all to do with the improving A levels of the intake and nothing to do with league tables....
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snapper_37
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marinyork said:
I intend to, just out of curiosity more than anything. Why wouldn't I like the answer?
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snapper_37
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darkstar said:
And then you can start earning hard cash to pay off that loan you have spent on your bikey bits and gadgets.
Alien8
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Uncle Mort said:
It's called Dumbing-Down and it's everywhere.
Alien8
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theclaud said:Note that the start of the "dumbing down" can always be dated to just after poster X obtained his/her degree.
No, 1997 - but that's for another forum.
summerdays
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geocycle said:Also depends when they got the 2:2. Up until about 5 years ago some 50% would get a desmond or a douglas hird, but now these have a rarity value. Some places give 80% 2:1 and 1sts so a 2:2 is a pretty good acheivement. This has all to do with the improving A levels of the intake and nothing to do with league tables....
Wow - I'm sure it was more like a 50:50 split between 2:1 and 2:2 with just 2 3rd's and maybe 4 1sts perhaps in my year.
theclaud said:Note that the start of the "dumbing down" can always be dated to just after poster X obtained his/her degree.
I do know a lecturer who says that A-level maths doesn't cover anything like as board a course as it did 20 years ago. Must go and quiz him on how what degree levels they hand out and if he thinks they have changed.
accountantpete
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I'd have got a First except I thought I'd help things on their way by asking one Prof about what I should read up on about an area I was a little iffy in (Brahmins of Mararashtra) - hoping he'd say not to bother as it wasn't in the exam. He gave me a big list of reading matter and no,it didn't come up in the exam!
snapper_37 said:I intend to, just out of curiosity more than anything. Why wouldn't I like the answer?
That sort of question is off the record/out of the box. It's a bit more unpredictable. It's away from all your fancy competencies and fancy box ticking imposed by HR/managers.
Some people don't like the answer there are all sorts of things - they might think they are lying, they might think that they are not ambitious, they might worry about them becoming a hippy, it might even threaten their world view.
I'm not saying you are like that snapper, you're just a good egg, but interviews are a funny business where normal rules of reality don't apply. I've had plenty of the why aren't you working as xxx and it's a pretty hard one to deal with as you have to try and guess what to say without being regarded as a geek, a communist or a bum or offending the interviewer in some other way.
Kirstie
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Yes it's true - the standard of English and Maths we get now is not as high as it was 10 years ago. So university staff have to do more remedial work ie the stuff that should be covered in schools. AND because class sizes have increased exponentially, you can't cover the same amount of ground that you used to - or if you do you do it at the expense of teaching quality. You can't get the same discussion going in class of 250 that you did in a class of 80.
That's been the way of the world since the early 90s in higher ed.
That's been the way of the world since the early 90s in higher ed.
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