Got my degree marks today

The break down of my results came in the post today!

it appears an exam i felt fairly confident about and wrote until the last minute...i didnt even pass! and the exam i walked out of after less than an hour I achieved a higher mark in than the one i felt confident in! AND to add to that my highest mark was in the unit I hate and never went to!
 
2:1 hons Bachelor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering achieved for me today.

Im chuffed considering I nearly failed my second year. (much work was required this year to get the mark up so much though)

Gratz everyone else
 
Got my 2.1 today :D, final mark was 62 which was a bit disappointing but I guess at the end of the day 62 and 68 are more or less the same.

Has anyone else discovered that the more work they do for an exam, the worse they do?!
 
Lil old me said:
Got my 2.1 today :D, final mark was 62 which was a bit disappointing but I guess at the end of the day 62 and 68 are more or less the same.

Has anyone else discovered that the more work they do for an exam, the worse they do?!
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yes.

i got 68 last term for my performance skill modules for my music degree. I did a much better,longer, more challenging and more diverse performance with no mistakes this term and got 63.5 :confused:. Not one negative comment on the marking sheet. all superlatives. crazy stuff.

got 66.33% average for my whole degree though :)
 
MaX_PoWah said:
A guy i know on the course as well who i ended up doing coursework with did hardly any revision and left an hour early in two of the exams and passed as well (41% and 44%), it does annoys me because i did alright (10 - 15% better than him) but i spent AGES revising, typical do nothing to get 40% (because we want your money), sell your soul (because we don’t want the hassle of review boards) to get anything more.
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Nitefly is right, if you wanted to do anything with your law degree related to law then a third is going to be a pretty big hinderance. Marks get much harder to acquire the further up the grading scale you go - remember as well that the ultimate person who benefits here is you, you don't need to compare yourself to anyone else really, do as well as you can and the rest should fall into place.

//edit the doing worse at exams despite doing more work for them might have something to do with the general rule that you'll try to revise more for exams that you know you'll struggle with - if you didn't do all the revision then you'd do even worse.
 
what amazed me about mine was my arranging for orchestra mark.

Had to score out 150 bars for a full symphony orchestra and i'd pretty much done little to no scoring before hand and got 62% somehow. i was really worried that I was going to fail it!
 
Sudden said:
Yea, but you're sitting there on a 2:1 and he's got a third. Passing or not, a 3rd is not going to be looked well upon. Especially in law. Most of the firms there have a 2:1 requirement to even apply.
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yea, i appreciate what your saying, I guess i am happy with what i got, i just feel like for him to pass makes a mockery of my efforts because i got in my eyes so little more..

My course is not pure a law course, its urban land economics, which generally leads onto chartered surveying.. one module this year was Law for the property proffesional

The law exam was bias because during the year we were set various coursework assignments based upon our surname, some of these questions set were on repair and dilapidations on leasehold property, however none of mine were, I got keep open covenants and 1954 act part 2 consistent failure to pay rent.

The exam had 2 questions on repair and dilapidations and none on either of my subject areas apart from some vague questions which you could have applied almost anything, as far as i am concerned anybody who studies a area in there coursework is going to have a much greater level of understanding than somebody who revises a area in the hope it might come up which is what i did on the repair subject.
 
Bassmansam said:
Nice one , what did your course involve , haven't heard of "computer studies" . Nice one getting 1st class though.
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Computing Studies basically allows you more flexibility than other courses in the choice of modules. There are still fixed modules which overlap between courses but you can choose 2-3 optional modules compared to Computer Science which only allows the choice of 1 module at most. Overall, I found it very useful as I did modules that gave me a broad spectrum of knowledge, for example my final year I had the following:

Web Database Systems (PHP, MySQL, Oracle)
Advanced Databases (Oracle)
Application Integration Technologies (Java, Hibernate, JDBC - Oracle)
Information Security (Cryptology, Ciphers)
Strategic Systems Management (Business orientated module)

Individual Project (Mandantory)
Professionalism and Ethical Practice (Mandantory)

Hope that helps :)
 
MaX_PoWah said:
yea, i appreciate what your saying, I guess i am happy with what i got, i just feel like for him to pass makes a mockery of my efforts because i got in my eyes so little more..

My course is not pure a law course, its urban land economics, which generally leads onto chartered surveying.. one module this year was Law for the property proffesional

The law exam was bias because during the year we were set various coursework assignments based upon our surname, some of these questions set were on repair and dilapidations on leasehold property, however none of mine were, I got keep open covenants and 1954 act part 2 consistent failure to pay rent.

The exam had 2 questions on repair and dilapidations and none on either of my subject areas apart from some vague questions which you could have applied almost anything, as far as i am concerned anybody who studies a area in there coursework is going to have a much greater level of understanding than somebody who revises a area in the hope it might come up which is what i did on the repair subject.
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I understand where you're coming from, but i'm sure that the difference between a 3rd and a 2.1 will become blatantly evident when you both go into the market. (I say this, but I just graduated myself so maybe i'm wrong. I know it's true for law etc cause that's where i'm planning to get into and most good firms don't even look at you unless you have a 2.1). And in case, those are his workhabits. In the job, boss will realize and unless he changes drastically, he won't get all that far.


Sucks about the module though. But it's one of those things you just deal with. I did history and we choose our essay titles and dissertations etc, but have no way of knowing if anything related to them will come up in the exam. If it does, you have a detailed knowledge. If not, then it's just unlucky but someone else out there would've done their stuff on those questions. Just a question of luck sometimes, but it does suck.
 
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