[Extensity]

Hey Student Room,

I have a few questions about how hard LSE is.

1. How hard is it to get First Class Honours?

2. How hard is LSE, overall?

3. I know 70-100 is First Class Honours, but what marks are comparable to a 4.0? Is it still 90+?

[happyday]

Also, any idea on the percentage of law students can achieve 2:1 or above?

[Observatory]

I didn't go to LSE, but in general, the difficulty of the degree is relative to your aptitude and how hard you work.

Marks >90, or even really >80, are rare where they're even possible in the British system. GPA doesn't convert exactly because in Britain the average is taken over the entire degree rather than individual modules, but a 1st tends to be considered in the 3.8-4.0 range.

[Tallon]

There are module statistics available online but sorry, I don't know exactly where to find them.

[The Polymath]

(Original post by Extensity)
Hey Student Room,

I have a few questions about how hard LSE is.

1. How hard is it to get First Class Honours?

2. How hard is LSE, overall?

3. I know 70-100 is First Class Honours, but what marks are comparable to a 4.0? Is it still 90+?

2. LSE is quite easy. Lol jk it's hard. Actually it's alright. Steve says it's ridiculous but Janet found it to be a breeze.

What answer are you looking for? It depends on you as a student, the subject you're taking and what you want to get out of uni.

[memyselfandi93]

I'm a LSE student and myself and a lot of my friends think it is quite difficult. (Studying in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics departments)

I think it is do-able however we've realised that the people who tend to get firsts naturally are very good at picking things up easily and are the ones who do more than what is needed. They didn't go out clubbing and drinking as much, (not saying anti social) but when the work needed to be done, the work came first and the party came second. For the rest of us normal uni students, we partied and socialised more than we studied and got results that showed that we did.

Also, I lived in an intercollegiate university of london halls so I was living with people from UCL, Kings, SOAS etc. and they socialised and studied pretty much the same as me and came out with much higher degrees. My neighbour used to come to me for help for her maths modules and I could do it all but came out with much higher grades than I did.

The difficulty is subjective but I think going to a top uni and studying a difficult course (like Law) would mean you are in a more challenging environment than other universities and courses.