Honours system at uni

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How do you get honours with your degree ive heard varying reports. Some claim its from doing well in your dissertation others claim its for reaching over a certain grade.

Its never been explained to me but i cant see myself loosing my honour that would be horrendous! :)

Just a quick question! Thanks
 
I think its just if you don't fail your final year (Warwick uni anyway)


speaking of failure, I failed 2 exams today :( final year of physics degree... no chance of 2:1 now
 
Up here all degrees are 'honours', unless you only just scrape through (ie you get below a 2:2) in which case they call it an 'ordinary' degree. I think it depends a lot on the uni.
 
calnen said:
Up here all degrees are 'honours', unless you only just scrape through (ie you get below a 2:2) in which case they call it an 'ordinary' degree. I think it depends a lot on the uni.

I think its the same here.
 
The Scottish system is slight different. For a degree like a BA. You usually do that for three years to get the BA. You then do another one year to get the honours title.
 
Had to average above 50% in all 2nd and final year modules, and not fail (<40%) any 2nd or final year module. Thats for my BSc (Hons) anyway.
 
In Scotland you can leave Uni after 3years with an Ordinary degree ie Bsc BEng etc, for a honours degree you need to do a further year to get Bsc (hons). For a masters Msc you would need to do another year ie 5years
 
Standard degree in Scotland is 4 years, not 3. Generally means that if you come out with an ordinary degree that you didn't complete the full course.

Jokester
 
Where I went (Southampton), anything from a 1st to a 3rd was an Honours degree. You could then get a 'pass' and anything below that was a fail.
 
I'm sure its on a credits system, for example each module = 20 credits, and you need x many credits for a degree, and x many more for honours degree. Hence, if you fail a few modules, you may still qualify with a basic degree with no honours.
 
monkeysmith said:
I'm sure its on a credits system, for example each module = 20 credits, and you need x many credits for a degree, and x many more for honours degree. Hence, if you fail a few modules, you may still qualify with a basic degree with no honours.

Yep thats pretty much right, all students who get a 1st to a 3rd get honors, if you don't get a 3rd you get a ordinary degree.

Most universities have a system where you have to get a certain number of, for example, 1st results in your exams (so over 69) and as well have reached a certain aggregate total.

Cheers

Davem
 
Some University and some course will count your first year marks, but from my knowledge it is the minority.

Nevertheless a good First year mark can do you a lot of good especially if your looking for Work experience during the Summer, especially for law!!

I personally I'd of worked a tad harder and got a 2:1 in my first year :<
 
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