2:2 Degree :(

Simply do a masters in a subject that matters. A mate did his MSc in wastewater treatment here at Cranfield after getting a 2:2 BSc in geo-something from Stoke Uni.

He now has a great job and somehow had BP asking for his CV and interview. he didnt get the job but shows that a 2:2 plus MSc in a useful subject=job with good pay and prospects. He does have a good job though. Most companies want a good person not so much someone with good grades.
 
Tweek_1984 said:
He would go on and on about how he got drunk last night and how the assignments were a piece of ****, etc. But the barsteward was ALWAYS in the lab. He ALWAYS got decent marks. The guy got under my skin. The idea that people like that were coming out with firsts was just soul-destroying. But the sad fact is, he did the work and he did it well.
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Huh why? He obviously put the work in and you can't begrudge him the mark. Party hard and work hard, thats what I tried to do at uni and it payed off (I just missed a lot of sleep and was knackered all the time).
 
i got a third because I failed my spanish option, dont worry about it, its what you do from now that counts.
Ill never do anything like what I did at uni again so I dont care, im also starting an aeronautical engineering degree in the foreseeable future so thats worth a little more..
 
mrk1@1 said:
So the guy put the hours in and worked hard but played hard. Seems fair enough to me, can't quite work out from your post if you had a problem with the bloke or the fact he did the work to earn the grade??.
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There was something about him that irked me. It's the not the idea that he worked hard and played hard, obviously there's nothing wrong with that. He just used to let everybody know how easy it was while boasting about how he'd been on a bender the night beforeand and how he wasn't taking the assignments seriously because they were so easy (when in actual fact they were difficult and a lot was riding on them). He also used to boast about how he'd purposefully got himself a tutor for his dissertation who was a notoriously easy marker. Stuff like that. I suppose it was situational. I just couldn't stomach the guy and he certainly wasn't super intelligent, but he was very shrewd and slimy.
 
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I failed my chemistry O level by (what I was told) a fraction of a percentage. So I studied a bit harder and retook it.

I didn't feel the need to ask for it to be remarked, I just accepted that I'd not done well enough and tried again.

Isn't that how things are done these days? If you don't get the grade you want you go crawling back and ask for a re-mark rather than accept it and have another go?
 
Tweek_1984 said:
University is not some sort of intelligence test, it's an academic marathon of persistence, discipline, adaptation and little bit of craftiness!
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How absurd

A guy on my course used to irritate the hell out me for some reason. He would go on and on about how he got drunk last night and how the assignments were a piece of ****, etc. But the barsteward was ALWAYS in the lab. He ALWAYS got decent marks. The guy got under my skin. The idea that people like that were coming out with firsts was just soul-destroying. But the sad fact is, he did the work and he did it well.
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That's essentially what I did this year, and I got a first! Though I'll admit I definitely wasn't an annoying type like you describe, but even so....work hard, play hard :)
 
On all the job interviews I have been on, no one has said "sorry son, we see your aabit thick with your 2:2. Think you better apply to Tesco!"

Outside of The Apprentice no one cares, its all about enthusiasm, personal drive, communication skills.

After a couple of years work experience no one gives a poo what degree you have.

In fact no one has ever asked me about my degree on my latest round of interviews.
 
Oxy said:
On all the job interviews I have been on, no one has said "sorry son, we see your aabit thick with your 2:2. Think you better apply to Tesco!"

Outside of The Apprentice no one cares, its all about enthusiasm, personal drive, communication skills.

After a couple of years work experience no one gives a poo what degree you have.

In fact no one has ever asked me about my degree on my latest round of interviews.
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I got a 2.2 as well and the only company that I've ever interviewed with that asked me about my degree classification was a small 15 man company that I interviewed with after graduating.
I never ended up working there and have worked at large blue chip companies for my whole career, none of whom have cared about the fact that I got a 2.2.
 
Oxy said:
On all the job interviews I have been on, no one has said "sorry son, we see your aabit thick with your 2:2. Think you better apply to Tesco!"

Outside of The Apprentice no one cares, its all about enthusiasm, personal drive, communication skills.

After a couple of years work experience no one gives a poo what degree you have.

In fact no one has ever asked me about my degree on my latest round of interviews.
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Yes... because you didn't apply to many graduate schemes,

the thing with a 2.2 is that you CAN'T apply to a good proportion on graduate schemes... they get so many thousands of applications, that HR will just scrap any with a 2.2 or lower. The online forms generally don't even have an option for 2.2.

When I was job hunting with a 2.2, I just applied to the few grad schemes that still say 2.2 or higher.

but btw, there are **** loads of jobs that just require people at "graduate level"... marketing/advertising jobs are one example that are generally like this (what i'm working in now)
 
I don't understand the obsession with Graduate Schemes.

I've got a 2.2, I graduated 6 years ago and I went straight into a job with a small company.

I'm now very successful, rich and incredibly good looking.
2.2 is the new 2.1.
 
I got a 2:2 and it's never caused me any problems whatsoever, but then again i do work in an industry where experience is more important than academic grades.

In one week i start my new job in a leading global company and not once did they ask about my grade, my CV says that i have the degree they want and that i've got 4 years of solid experience to back it up, that was enough.

At the end of the day a degree is only there to get you into your first job, after that it's all about your abilities in the workplace, if you can get into that position you'll never care about the 2:2 ever again.
 
Don't worry dude. I got an unclassified degree. I too made poor module choices (business orientated modules in a computing degree?!) and ended up hating the course.
If you know your stuff you'll get a job and be fine. I'm now a programmer and doing good.
 
Just got a 2:2 myself this year in Architectural Studies, unfortunately the way its weighted ends up favouring the more creative in terms of writing due to the dissertation. There are a lot of people on my course who got a 2:1 but they cant design a building AT ALL. One girl in particular I know only got 42% for both of her designs this year and managed to get a 2:1 due to the strength of her dissertation which was 75%+ and thats what happens. What wont hold up however is the strength of her designs when it comes to her interviews in practice where the portfolio becomes the most important piece of work you have.

I now go onto a post grad in Advanced Architectural Design so after that year I will be putting on my CV's that I have a PGDIP in AAD as well as my honors degree so that way it looks a lot better for me. Is there any natural post graduate courses you could do or consider? Dont know how much help it would be to you in the long run.

You'll be fine though, no sweat.
 
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