[Hemisphere]

The OU have released the results for the 2011 presentations:

http://www8.open.ac.uk/platform/file...se_results.pdf

[Bleak Lemming]

Nice to know! Good for judging which modules are easier ;D

[sputum]

% with results looks pretty horrifying for some courses
W100 at 62% for starters

[Bleak Lemming]

(Original post by sputum)
% with results looks pretty horrifying for some courses
W100 at 62% for starters

what does % with results mean??

[sputum]

(Original post by Bleak Lemming)
what does % with results mean??

I would guess at non-dropouts.
I nearly ditched a course I didn't like a few years ago. Did a little research and if I had done I cost them nearly three times what I paid for the course (at old prices)
Scraped a grade 4 that will never see the light of day but just turning up to the exam saved them a ridiculous amount of money. Non-completers are/were expensive for the OU because a chunk of the money per student (used to be?) contingent on them doing the final TMA and exam.

The L1 humanities 60-pointers are particularly surprising (many courses have low total student numbers and I'm not that bothered by them, just the biggies)

[Nitebot]

(Original post by Bleak Lemming)
what does % with results mean??

Yes as Sputum says, it's the percentage of students who were issued with a result. Next column is %age of those who were issued with a result, who passed. The next 4 columns are the grade breakdown. Some interesting stuff there. Very few distinctions in the Level 1 T (engineering modules). Few in the level 1 SK (Health science) ones as well.

No-one received a distinction for the law course W100. No surprise really. Huge 45% drop out rate for S282 Astronomy. I bet a lot of people signed up to it as new students expecting a fluffy Stargazing Live! level course only to find out that it contained a lot of hardcore maths and physics. Making people in general start with L1 is a good idea.

[Persipan]

(Original post by sputum)
% with results looks pretty horrifying for some courses
W100 at 62% for starters

Yeah, but where those courses with particularly high drop-out rates are Level 1 ones, I'd tend to think that it was down to people doing their first module (or maybe first larger module, if they've done an Openings or a 10-credit one first) and finding it harder going than they anticipated/not what they expected/not ever really getting going with it, that sort of thing. And while, on the one hand, I think the OU should do everything it can to support students; on the other, I don't know that those factors can every be completely eliminated - especially in a setup which makes a point of having no entry requirements.

[sputum]

It's eliminated from October unless I've missed something about the new funding structure.
There may be some transfers in there too
It was more 'they lose a lot more than the maximum student course fee for each non-completer so 1 in 3 must be hellish expensive' than anything else.

[Kate.]

Well, now I'm terrified. M359 had only 3.1% with distinctions! T320 had 10.4%...so fingers crossed for that one haha. I'm really hoping for a first overall and I think I need a distinction in at least 2 of my 4 level 3 modules. Currently doing T320 and M359, looking at M363 (25.9% distinction), M362 (24.7%) or M364 (7%) for next year alongside my project...the first two are looking more appealing now lol.

Slightly related, it always really irritates me when people don't set the title row in a table to appear on every page. It's not like it's hard to do!

[sputum]

I found the 2009 results for comparison
6.2% distinctions for M359 that year
Looks like the % with pass on the 09 results is a % of the intake, whereas the 2011 results are a % of the completers.