Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in grades
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Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesDoes anyone know the — rough — equivalence of BTEC National Diploma grades on the A - F scale?
Someone said Distinction = A; Merit = C, Pass = E — Is that accurate?
If correct, when you end up with multiple grades for a course — [DMM, MMM, etc.] — does it translate differently?
I always imagined (hoped):
DDD = A
DDM = A-
DMM = B+
MMM = B
MMP = B-
MPP = C+
PPP = C
Ohh, put me out of my misery.
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesThere's not really a direct conversion from A-level grades to btec grades. The two grading systems are different.
The way to think of its is to compare the ucas points that an alevel is worth in comparison to the btec grade. -
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesAlthough that's not a great idea either, given that a large number of universities don't consider the same amount of UCAS points worth of BTEC qual to be worth the equivalent number of points of A-levels :/
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesOkay, so I've looked at the UCAS tariff and the points are as follows…
A level
A — 120
B — 100
C — 80
D — 60
E — 40
BTEC ND
DDD — 360
DDM — 320
DMM — 280
MMM — 240
MMP — 200
MPP — 160
PPP — 120
So you can ascertain that DDD is most certainly the same as 3 A's and MMM is the same as 3 C's (or 2 A's if you want to put a spin on it
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesOkay to answer the question, only one of the grades is equivalent to A levels and that is Distinction ( throught UCAS points look below )
BTEC
D - 120
M - 80
P - 40
A Levels
A - 120
B - 100
C - 80
D - 60
E - 40
So if you add up the 3 you get you will get your told number of points
the proof - http://www.ucas.ac.uk/students/ucas_.../tarifftables/
Depends which one your talking about mate, D* is only been used in the new extend diploma, it will offer the same points as a A* does so 140, basically it would be the same course however if you reach 90% of the course you will get D*(Original post by Forte - TS Elite -)
Okay, when I got my results I came across this thread...
Does anyone know what a D* Is equivalent too?
I kind of need to know, as I start 6th form on Monday. O_o -
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesUsing the UCAS conversion table you can see that BBC adds up to 280, which is theoretically the same as DMM. Personally, I have a feeling that universities in the top 50 or so will be looking for at least DDM, although I could be wrong.(Original post by yeh)
hi,
sussex uni want an entry of bbc,in college terms of pass merit distinction what would bbc be?
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesi do believe it actually tells you ?(Original post by yeh)
hi,
sussex uni want an entry of bbc,in college terms of pass merit distinction what would bbc be?
thanks
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Re: Pass, Merit, Distinction — Equivalent in gradesthey are both 320 points...(Original post by Titch89)
Leeds Uni told me that DDM = ABB, yet the total of points are different. There's a point tariff on the UCAS website.
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