With mitigating circumstances surely?
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With mitigating circumstances surely?
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Was she alright?
May be able to claim impaired performance?
Something may have been up with her to drop from over 60% to under 40%.
she already had claimed special circumstances due to family bereavements. So further appeal is unlikely to come to anything
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Sounds like just a touch more would give her a 2:2.
Any harm in contacting the uni and asking for a meeting?
A 2:2 would open many many doors compared to a 3rd.
yeh think she is going to do this hopefully it will come to something
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What would that meeting achieve? Is it possible to talk the examination office to bump up the marks a bit? That can not be legal
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My friend got a 3rd in chemistry from York uni, got a trainee accountancy role with Audi UK, and has not moved on to Britvic in a Project Manager role. Have some hope. Call the company and see what they say. If she is known to them they may overlook the grade.
I hear McDonalds are on a hiring drive right now
I need a summer job and this got my hopes up. Checked vacancies, and no, they aren't. LIAR!
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Are you really asking the man if his girlfriend is hot? I'd rather hope he finds her attractive.
Usually yes it is out of the question as many firms will expect to see the qualification certificates but maybe the approach could be in for a penny, in for a pound as they say - lie and forge the certificates...
kEn_sct: Good luck to your girlfriend getting it sorted, speaking to the firm is probably a good step as mentioned, it might be worth saying to them that an appeal has been lodged about the results (assuming it has/can be) if they don't agree to simply waive the requirement for a 2:1.
It's not great... It could be worse, though. A "pass" is little more than a receipt from the uni.
A third isn't great. It's worth talking to the employer, but given that any accountancy job will involve further studies and difficult professional qualifications, they may well tell her they're not interested.
I hear McDonalds are on a hiring drive right now
You need a masters to get in these days.
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Where did she do it.
She did a decent subject, but where makes a massive difference.
A 2.2 in that from a decent uni wouldn't matter and she could get a job elsewhere.
This isn't strictly true nowadays. It's all about the subject, not so much where it was obtained (to a certain degree). But most employers won't flinch an awful lot to where you may have got your degree, unless it is from the University of Telford or something...
People on the grad scheme at Orange here were told they needed 2:1s and one in my intake turned up with a 3rd and did fine (his degree was in history, job in marketing. I got no clue but he was awesome). As long as she discusses it with them in a fairly adult way HR might be OK with her. Would help if she could show she was near a 2:2 etc...
Tell her to be prepared with reasons why they should still take her when she talks and not to break down crying or anything like that. You want to give the impression when you chat that although she has made a mistake she has the drive to sort it out and deliver for <insert company>.
Tell her to be prepared with reasons why they should still take her when she talks and not to break down crying or anything like that. You want to give the impression when you chat that although she has made a mistake she has the drive to sort it out and deliver for <insert company>.
I got a 3rd and it worked out ok for me. I barely attended anything and drank away (to the brink) my days at Loughborough Uni. Hence, I got what I deserved and had to take a long look at what I'd just wasted.
However, I got a job on £6 an hour at a software company, through a friend, and since I actually had some genuine ability I moved up fast, and hopefully the silly boy's 3rd has now been overtaken on my CV by the more responsible me's experience in work and the part I've played in the company's rise in the last few years.
If someone will give your girl a chance then she's just got to make sure she grabs it by the balls.
However, I got a job on £6 an hour at a software company, through a friend, and since I actually had some genuine ability I moved up fast, and hopefully the silly boy's 3rd has now been overtaken on my CV by the more responsible me's experience in work and the part I've played in the company's rise in the last few years.
If someone will give your girl a chance then she's just got to make sure she grabs it by the balls.
I think it does really depend on where you are going - I was speaking to one of the bosses at Johnson Matthey (fine chemicals) and he said that they almost never hire graduates who are from non-Russell Group universities. Probably a little unfair, but his section is R&D and the Russell Group universities are the research powerhouses, especially in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering.