british universities

[sburmanuk]

how do British universities calculate overall degree grades?

[football]

By guessing & cheating; the same as the students.

[starlite]

its dead confusing, as far as i can see i can still get a 2:1 if i fail some of my course? its to do with the percentages of your marks in your 3rd and 4th year, ie for a first, half you marks have to be over 80%, 3/4 over 75% blah blah. or something along those lines!

[jills]

some Unis have more bias towards continuous assessment than others...and it may also depend on your chosen course...

[Cha cha cha]

Overall average mark across modules/years dependant on course structure: 70+ First 60-70 Upper second (2.1) 50-60 Lower second (2.2) 40-50 Third -40 Basic pass/certificate of registration etc.

[akaceefax]

what cha cha cha said is true. however, some courses require that you obtain a number of module marks in the degree class you are awarded. there are also some rules for borderline cases these are: exit momentum - if you final year marks are higher than previous years then can be awarded the higher classification not sure what the second rule is called as it is a latin one - if your mark is pulled down by one or two bad marks then they may be recalculated with out these marks and you then may be awarded the higher classification. This systems is only employed in the case that someone is short of a classification by a small amount ie 1 - 1.5% max (49.9%, 59.2%, 69.5% etc). These rule are also not used to drop marks down. you can only go up classifications with this system. Universities also have systems for failure of modules some allow you to fail a single module and others allow marks down to 30% as long as the average is 40+. if a university uses the somester system they allow students to take extra modules in the second somester to make up for failures in the first somester. finally, football i guess u have not been to university and there is little chance of u getting into one, other than to steal computers or mug students. Get over it!