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Is it harder to get a good grade at a better university?

Hello,

Obviously I'll be looking to get at least a 2:1. I'm just wondering if it will be harder to get this at a more prestigious university. Is there more work involved?

Cheers.
Not another one of these threads.....
Technically all universities mark to the same standard so that a 2:1 is relatively the same wherever you receive it. My university a former poly has its grades second marked by a prestigious uni and has often found to be marking too harshly - at least on my course.

HOWEVER top universities expect you to be doing a lot more work and will be more on top of you. So they will give you more work week-to-week and the ethos will promote students who actually do the reading.

Furthermore (and most importantly) the way each year is weighted may have a significant impact. So while a each individual piece should be of a similar shared at every university your final degree classification could be significantly different.

For example my university lets you drop the lowest 20 credits which substantially raises your grade average if you had one module bringing your overall classification.
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Yes.
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Not another one of these threads.....

I'm extremely sorry. Give me your address so I can send a card.

Thanks Georgie_M
cambridge seems to be as so many people get a 2.2. there. As for other universities it's a long and tiresome debate that probably depends more on the subject you choose (comp sci for example greatly differs in content across the different universities so it may be much harder to get a 2.1 with the more maths based courses than the others).
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cambridge seems to be as so many people get a 2.2. there. As for other universities it's a long and tiresome debate that probably depends more on the subject you choose (comp sci for example greatly differs in content across the different universities so it may be much harder to get a 2.1 with the more maths based courses than the others).

Yeah. Well a 2:1 at a lower ranked university is probably considered better than a 2:2 at a top university. It's getting a balance right which is important.
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Yeah. Well a 2:1 at a lower ranked university is probably considered better than a 2:2 at a top university. It's getting a balance right which is important.


Depends on the job but for most graduate jobs the consensus is that a 2.2. is automatically filtered out. Why don't you just check the stats yourself using this:

http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/
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Depends on the job but for most graduate jobs the consensus is that a 2.2. is automatically filtered out. Why don't you just check the stats yourself using this:

http://unistats.direct.gov.uk/

Wow, this clears things up. Thanks. I'm looking at two universities in particular for my course. Durham (Top 5) only gets about 7% of people getting 1st class degrees. Surrey (Top 15) gets about 35% of people getting 1st class degrees.

Don't you think it's strange that universities work like this?
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Wow, this clears things up. Thanks. I'm looking at two universities in particular for my course. Durham (Top 5) only gets about 7% of people getting 1st class degrees. Surrey (Top 15) gets about 35% of people getting 1st class degrees.

Don't you think it's strange that universities work like this?


Yep but researchers seem to disagree that foul play is at hand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25811702
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Yep but researchers seem to disagree that foul play is at hand
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25811702


'Researchers' are wrong then. Surely the stats prove this?
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'Researchers' are wrong then. Surely the stats prove this?


correlation vs causation again.

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