Dissertation easier than I thought?

[tom_e]

I don't know how people do it all in one go.

We have to meet our tutor on more than one occasion, give them updates (lit review was ages ago then another chapter last month) and get forms signed off etc.

We had the same, but I get the feeling my tutor didn't really give a **** as I wasn't doing a Comp Sci programming sort of dissertation so he had no knowledge on my subject.
Therefore I was mostly ignored during the group meets, which meant I could go at my own pace and just get his signature on a bit of paper every now and again!

 

[touch]

What were you findings? Did you find the android GPS app was inaccurate compared to a dedicated GPS tracker?

Cant remeber exactly, i think there was about 3% difference on average.
Which i concluded was within an accpetable tollerance but suggested that a phone is still not a valid substitute for a dedicated device due to lack of proper mounting options and limited weatherproofing.

 

[bhavv]

You must be a genius then, or you went to a crap uni.



So yeah, a crap uni/course?

Nah, the dissertation on my course had to be fully original lab work, with 8000 words on top for a 20 credit one, or 13000 words plus two presentations for a 40 credit.

Everyone of my friends on other courses only had to write 5000 words for 20 credits, or 10000 words for 40 credits.

I didnt do my dissertation because I was a last minute person and didnt even have it started by march. No motivation at all to do the lab work or anything else, I tried a few requests to ask to be able to simply do a minimal witten dissertation only and only get the lowest grade as a maximum, but they wouldnt even let me do that.

Theres really no such thing as a crap Uni either, any place that has been granted official university status is a good place to study, however a lot of courses like media studies, dance, film + TV, and third world development as a few examples are stupidly easy degrees.

a BSc in any Biology or Geography subject is also 100% easy and simple from any degree, all you do is remember stuff, write essays, and either lab or field work on top of that.

I was doing all of my work at the last minute, and getting better marks than more than 50% of the class, its not that the courses are hard, its just that most people are thick.

I got a couple of 2000 word genetics essays done in under 24 hours, 60%+ obtained on both. I prepared one presentation just within an hour before it was due and got the highest grade on it in the class. If I actually had the motivation to revise and start my work early, I would have been able to get a first from mostly anything at Cambridge, but I never had to, passed everything up to degree level with absolutely zero effort and nothing but dossing about.

 

[sigma]

Nah, the dissertation on my course had to be fully original lab work, with 8000 words on top for a 20 credit one, or 13000 words plus two presentations for a 40 credit.

Everyone of my friends on other courses only had to write 5000 words for 20 credits, or 10000 words for 40 credits.

I didnt do my dissertation because I was a last minute person and didnt even have it started by march. No motivation at all to do the lab work or anything else, I tried a few requests to ask to be able to simply do a minimal witten dissertation only and only get the lowest grade as a maximum, but they wouldnt even let me do that.

Theres really no such thing as a crap Uni either, any place that has been granted official university status is a good place to study, however a lot of courses like media studies, dance, film + TV, and third world development as a few examples are stupidly easy degrees.

a BSc in any Biology or Geography subject is also 100% easy and simple from any degree, all you do is remember stuff, write essays, and either lab or field work on top of that.

So on one hand you're claiming every degree to be easy yet you didn't actually complete your dissertation?

Contradiction central.

Your attitude to degrees is strange. There's a lot more to studying a degree than just passing exams.

 

[Addicted]

Wish I found mine easy, ended up with just shy of 14k words and a good 20-30 hours of videos, analysis and AI coding.

 

[sigma]

Wish I found mine easy, ended up with just shy of 14k words and a good 20-30 hours of videos, analysis and AI coding.

I don't think it's supposed to be that hard though?

It's more a case of showing that you can do long project with minimal supervision, manage your time etc. Also if you do it in a subject similar to the area that you want to work in then you can show employers how interested you are in that subject.

 

[touch]

all you do is remember stuff, write essays, and either lab or field work on top of that.

Thats all you do for any degree....thats the basis of "learning".
remember what your lecturers tell you.
replicate what they have told you in a praticle situation (like a lab)
write down what you know and what you found in the practicle situation to show you understood the subject.

 

[Nitefly]

a BSc in any Biology or Geography subject is also 100% easy and simple from any degree, all you do is remember stuff, write essays, and either lab or field work on top of that.

I was doing all of my work at the last minute, and getting better marks than more than 50% of the class, its not that the courses are hard, its just that most people are thick.

I got a couple of 2000 word genetics essays done in under 24 hours, 60%+ obtained on both.

I didn't think my biology degree was 'easy', although I found law to be more demanding.

Also I find it odd that you are making these sorts of comments when you have previously admitted you don't have an honours degree and didn't complete your dissertation.

 

[bhavv]

I didn't think my biology degree was 'easy', although I found law to be more demanding.

Also I find it odd that you are making these sorts of comments when you have previously admitted you don't have an honours degree and didn't complete your dissertation.

Yea the dissertation was the only hard thing and I said no to lifting a single finger or putting any amount of effort into my studies.

 

[sigma]

Also I find it odd that you are making these sorts of comments when you have previously admitted you don't have an honours degree and didn't complete your dissertation.

It is very odd. It's pretty much an insult to anyone with a degree.

He also seems to think that Uni/degrees are only about passing exams.

 

[bhavv]

He also seems to think that Uni/degrees are only about passing exams.

And coursework.

All you do is pass your modules, and get a piece of paper that says you got a degree.

Though one girl I knew who passed her whole degree got her mother to do most of her essays for her, and she openly admitted it to all her friends but still never got caught.

 

[willhub]

On my course the degree can be passed on the dissertation alone with the dissertation weighing in at 70% of the whole course.

 

[bhavv]

On my course the degree can be passed on the dissertation alone with the dissertation weighing in at 70% of the whole course.

So basically everything but the dissertation is meaningless on that, one could just pike the entire thing, and just do the dissertation and still get a first pass.

As I said / meant to say, the dissertation is the only hard thing up to undergraduate level, GCSEs, A Levels, years 1, 2, and non dissertation year 3 modules on most degrees are simple and easy.

 

[sigma]

And coursework.

All you do is pass your modules, and get a piece of paper that says you got a degree.

Though one girl I knew who passed her whole degree got her mother to do most of her essays for her, and she openly admitted it to all her friends but still never got caught.

It's no wonder you failed then.

 

[Xiler]

And coursework.

All you do is pass your modules, and get a piece of paper that says you got a degree.

You seem to be very narrow minded to think people that cant pass a subject are thick.

I found my Civil Engineering degree relatively easy because I have always had a good understanding for maths and physics. On the other hand put me in a course that relies heavily on written skills, english literature, etc and I would do absolutely terrible and fail it easily.

 

[sigma]

On my course the degree can be passed on the dissertation alone with the dissertation weighing in at 70% of the whole course.

That is ridiculous!

 

[bhavv]

It's no wonder you failed then.

What did I fail? I passed everything I ever did, not one single fail.

Got my certificate saying 'BSc Human Biology'.

The dissertation was only required for an honours, which I decided right at the start of year 3 that I didnt need nor wanted to do. I cant fail something that I actually dropped and never even attempted!

You seem to be very narrow minded to think people that cant pass a subject are thick.

I found my Civil Engineering degree relatively easy because I have always had a good understanding for maths and physics. On the other hand put me in a course that relies heavily on written skills, english literature, etc and I would do absolutely terrible and fail it easily.

I said maths, physics, and engineering are hard, I also meant to include any course that includes anything to do with those subjects.

 

[sigma]

What did I fail? I passed everything I ever did, not one single fail.

Got my certificate saying 'BSc Human Biology'.

The dissertation was only required for an honours, which I decided right at the start of year 3 that I didnt need nor wanted to do. I cant fail something that I actually dropped and never even attempted!

You must have gone to a pretty crap uni then? If we fail our dissertation we, well I'm not even sure what happens, but it would no doubt drag our grades down into the gutter. We don't even have the option to drop it.

You failed because you couldn't do something as simple as a dissertation, that's a pretty big fail, IMO.

 

[willhub]

Actually I must be wrong since the dissertation is 40 credits?

 

[bhavv]

You must have gone to a pretty crap uni then? If we fail our dissertation we, well I'm not even sure what happens, but it would no doubt drag our grades down into the gutter. We don't even have the option to drop it.

You failed because you couldn't do something as simple as a dissertation, that's a pretty big fail, IMO.

Well first of all you dont even understand how your own university or course works, so any claim at stating you are attending a superior university is moot. At mine everything was clearly explained and I spoke to the lecturers several times to understand it -

Honours Degree - 120 credits in years 1, 2 and 3 (360 credits total)
Ordinary Degree - 120 credits in years 1 + 2, 60 credits in year 3 (300 credits total, what I personally decided entirely based on my own choice to go with.)
Diploma of Higher Education - 120 credits in years 1 + 2 (240 credits, equal to a HND)
Certificate of Higher Education - 120 credits in year 1 (equal to a foundation degree).

If you actually research how the grading works at most universities and on most courses except Physics / Maths / Engineering / Chemistry related subjects, you will find that most of them follow a similar method.

Actually I must be wrong since the dissertation is 40 credits?

Yes, same as mine was, your dissertation is only 1/3 on your final year. Its funny that most people dont even understand how university grading works, yet they are attending them and even in their final years

Its a pretty universal standard, 120 credits per year composed of 20 credit (rarely 40 credit) modules, and a 40 credit (rarely 20 credit) dissertation.