Got my degree marks today

[jamie2497]

Lets just get back on topic. Congrats to the OP

 

[Nitefly]

no i'm pretty sure it happens in bristol as well, I know someone who's just Finished a MEng in design engineering, and the department have been told previously that they were giving too many 1st out!

Obviously there is regulation to an extent, but not 'cut and dry'. On my course no-one has had a first (distinction - postgraduate) for 3 years.

There is always modertaion from external examiners, naturally.

 

[Nitefly]

so it does go on then...

There is a difference between moderating standards and giving a select quota of a students degree classifications.

 

[UKTopGun]

No personal attacks!

Congratulations on your degree mrn, but there's still not need to 'rub' it in other peoples faces...

Be proud of your degree if you worked for it

 

[ironman]

Mr gurdas has a particular dislike to people from Imperial, even though he's never studies there.

Studies? Don't you mean studied?

Well technically I have used an Imperial library a fair few times so I have surrounded myself in the environment but I just didn't like it at all. Also, through running my business at university, I have got to know quite a few people from several London universities and i'm friends with a number of people from Imperial, so I know through them how sucky it can be to study there. Before you try and have a pop by saying they go to Tanaka, most of them are medics.

for me it was an achievment just to go to university, i appolagised

Don't you mean "achievement" and "apologised"?

your pretty immature

"You're"

i have right to defend myself when I'm insulted.

You have right?

if your so interested in my age you could roughly work it out.

"you're"

graduated in 1996, so 3 years for the degree + 18 years for school + 12 odd years work, can you work it out now? i didn't realise the my age had something to do with the degree classification system. how did i get into the job...

1996 - 1998 did a graduate position with GCHQ - ended up pretty much hating public sector environment
1998 - 2000 went contracting with the Y2k problem
2000+ various contracting roles (either through agencies or networking)
2005+ managed to get SC/DC clearance, haven't looked back since now mainly do software design/project work

So that makes you 34ish, I don't understand why you have come across so stuck up in this thread yet you are 34! You may have a dig at me or call me immature for pointing out your spelling/grammar but i'm 22 not 34!

Which ftse100 company are you contracting to at the moment? If you are where you say you are, then well done, but I just cannot believe that someone who has been educated to such a high level cannot spell or construct sentences. You are supposed to have a 1st class degree from Imperial yet you spell like a 10 year old, was this never pulled up from people marking your work?

 

[sid]

in practical terms you get a quota.

lets say for a given year then that 50% of students get 80% or more and the other 50% got low 70's (assuming there's nothing wrong with the standard?) you think they'd all get 1st's?

Yup,

thats how it seems to be at Imperial.

sid

 

[Nitefly]

so the end results is....

lets say for a given year then that 50% of students for 80% or more and the other 50% got low 70's (assuming there's nothing wrong with the standard?) you think they'd all get 1st's?

You have only given a skeleton of the scenario. If external examiners feel that the exam was too easy or too hard, they will alter the grade bounderies accordingly.

If they were all mega geniuses and the standards of the universities exams and marking were fine, they would all get firsts, yes. Where would the logic be in not giving them firsts if they deserved them?

That's fundementally different from saying the top 15% get firsts, regardless of their achievments.

 

[kiteloopy]

I got a 2.2 last year in computer networks at Northumbria. A kick in the teeth as I got 59.5%

Disappointed? Hell no. I didn't do too well on the old gcse's back in the day, since then my grades have never dropped, only raised...and too keep doing that to Bsc level...makes me very happy.

now if only i could find a job.


well done everyone.

 

[ironman]

you still haven't been able to counter my argument about the classifications system - carry on with your insults, well done!

I haven't disagreed with you regarding the system! I've already said they are not reflective on their own!

Feel free to dodge my questions once again though. Which ftse100 company are you contracting to?

 

[Kraven]

your pretty immature

Yeah maybe i am immature, but you decide to come into a thread which celebrates peoples achievements who have worked hard only to belittle them.

I also completed my degree this year and got a 2:1 in Computer Science which isnt from a top 10 University, ive watched friends over the course of my study drop out or get kicked out due to it being a tough degree and had moments where I didnt know if i could pass and then to read you being elitist and crapping on where people have studied now thats immature, go make a thread for yourself if your want to express your ego.

 

[Blackberries]

Congratualtions to everyone graduating this year! Just finished the first year of my degree, and loving it so far (Ancient History at King's College London).

Gurdas - As a fellow London student I'd be interested to hear what the opinion of King's is from other unis, in terms of the place and the people? You seem to have pretty strong feelings about Imperial!

 

[ironman]

Gurdas - As a fellow London student I'd be interested to hear what the opinion of King's is from other unis, in terms of the place and the people? You seem to have pretty strong feelings about Imperial!

King's gets a bit of stick but that's only due to the natural rivalry. King's is a good university and I have tons of friends from there, plus my girlfriend went to King's People at King's tend to a bit more down to earth and it is a very very social university which is excellent and I did apply there for my undergrad but always wanted to go to UCL hence my decision to go there.

 

[Gaygle]

Finished my degree at the university of manchester doing information systems engineering this year and just got my marks. Averaged 58 overall, 2 % away from a 2:1 but oh well still got my degree and a 2:2 at manchester is still ok... anyone else graduating this year ? or did anyone in the past.

Exactly the same. I worked out i got 58.5% overall for my Biomedical Science degree

 

[Blackberries]

King's gets a bit of stick but that's only due to the natural rivalry. King's is a good university and I have tons of friends from there, plus my girlfriend went to King's People at King's tend to a bit more down to earth and it is a very very social university which is excellent and I did apply there for my undergrad but always wanted to go to UCL hence my decision to go there.

Cool. My own experiences with King's students has been a mix of really nice, down to earth types and a few prats who are clearly there for the clubbing and the drinking and are having their way paid for them by parents (not that I'm adverse to a little drinking of course! ). I've met quite a few students doing Physics or Maths which confuses me a little as if you're doing a physical science and want to go to London, surely Imperial or UCL are the better bets? King's is more of a humanities-lead institution.

Not met many UCL or LSE students (weird, as LSE is only a few hundred metres away..), but of those I have they've all been great! I've met a number of Imperial students, most of whom were perfectly fine chaps, but quite a few were supreme pricks who came off as rather arrogant.