Are people with 2.2s good PHD students?

you have to be pretty low effort or low IQ to get a 2:2, speaking from someone that skimmed a 2:1 by playing the uni grading system.

I see! So why hide behind anon?

Seeing some wanting to do a PhD with a 2.2 , it looks strange and shows that they have lesser skills?

Hi Anon,
It’s seems to have quickly turned quite acrimonious on this thread. I’m not a regular on here, it just sometimes comes up in Google searches and grabs my attention. Like this post did.
Well done on your MA and 1st.
I got a 2.2, average A Level results but GCSEs I got 9 As and 2 Bs so (when I say average ALevelmresults I mean sh*t😂) there was a drop in what I seemed capable of. My best friend and house mate got a 2.1 (we did the same degree, met on our first day at uni).
I remember always rushing to do essays, when she was much more organised and always had reading done, I remember always being annoyed that I hadn’t spent more time as loved the reading when k got round to doing it etc. I knew undoubtedly that I was capable of a 1st as I spent 4 days in hospital once and spent the time on an essay and revising for upcoming exam and got 93% on essay on 96% on exam (tutors were perplexed).
It was only years later that I realised what it meant to be disadvantaged and stuck in a cycle of low income/poverty. Whilst at college and uni I worked full time hours around study to find myself. My peers did not. I didn’t recognise at the time that working was affecting my studies however, if I hadn’t worked I’d have not been able to get any ALevels or degree. So I think context matters.
I recently tried to do a programme to smash inequalities/social injustice etc but you need a minimum of a 2.1. Prevents from doing my big to eliminate the systems that hold us back by those very systems. And so those from low income backgrounds remain in low paid jobs.

you have to be pretty low effort or low IQ to get a 2:2, speaking from someone that skimmed a 2:1 by playing the uni grading system.

I’ll copy my previous comment on which will hopefully give you a bit of insight into the complexities academic achievement. Context matters.
I understand you managed to use whatever you are referring to to your advantage but it’s unfair to project this onto all of us.

Sorry 😪

you have to be pretty low effort or low IQ to get a 2:2, speaking from someone that skimmed a 2:1 by playing the uni grading system.

I think someone is conflating outcomes with ability.

Hiya A1,
I hope you are good?
Can we not conflate the two when we have an education system, indeed culture, which measures ability on outcomes?

No.

A simple yes or no would have been suffice … oh hang on … 😂.
Well, that was the least interesting and most disappointing conversation I’ve had for ages.
However, can you give me a bit more please? On both posts preferably. Help me understand your perspective?
Ta.

Who asked

A simple yes or no would have been suffice … oh hang on … 😂.
Well, that was the least interesting and most disappointing conversation I’ve had for ages.
However, can you give me a bit more please? On both posts preferably. Help me understand your perspective?
Ta.

When one chats shite, one must expect to be challenged on it

This is incredibly reductive and is simply not the case, speaking as someone that spent the past ten years teaching people of all abilities aged from 12 to their mid 40s in schools and universities.