How to calculate how much I need to get a first?

OP

Lol....yea i'm not doing a maths degree, i'm doing Business. I hate maths, as you can see :tongue:

The boundary is 70% to get a first.

This is how i'd work it out, im pretty sure its not correct.

so i have 28% of my overall grade for my coursework, so

70-28= 42

so i need 42% in my exam???....lol

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Maggieffc

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I hope you're not doing maths.

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Let me get this straight. Here we have someone who thinks she may be good enough to get a top grade in degree-level mathematics. Yet she is incapable of calculating a simple percentage, which is something that most people learn at primary school. Standards must seriously be falling.

Original post by hdin1

Lol....yea i'm not doing a maths degree, i'm doing Business. I hate maths, as you can see :tongue:

The boundary is 70% to get a first.

This is how i'd work it out, im pretty sure its not correct.

so i have 28% of my overall grade for my coursework, so

70-28= 42

so i need 42%???....lol

You need to score 70%.

So far you have scored 70% - right on target.

This means you need to score 70% on the examination component.

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nuodai

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Original post by hdin1

Lol....yea i'm not doing a maths degree, i'm doing Business. I hate maths, as you can see :tongue:

The boundary is 70% to get a first.

This is how i'd work it out, im pretty sure its not correct.

so i have 28% of my overall grade for my coursework, so

70-28= 42

so i need 42% in my exam???....lol

No, it means you need 42 out of 60 marks, which is 70%.

Reply 9

OP

Original post by Good bloke

Let me get this straight. Here we have someone who thinks she may be good enough to get a top grade in degree-level mathematics. Yet she is incapable of calculating a simple percentage, which is something that most people learn at primary school. Standards must seriously be falling.

Lol..im not doing maths. But its because my teacher was working it out a different way, so I got a little confused.

Original post by Good bloke

Let me get this straight. Here we have someone who thinks she may be good enough to get a top grade in degree-level mathematics. Yet she is incapable of calculating a simple percentage, which is something that most people learn at primary school. Standards must seriously be falling.

She's reading Business but your point still stands.

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OP

lol...ok thanks everyone I get it now! :smile:

Reply 12

Original post by hdin1

Lol..im not doing maths. But its because my teacher was working it out a different way, so I got a little confused.

It is still primary school maths. :biggrin:

Reply 13

BreakingBad

40(%) divided by 100 = 0.4
0.4 multipled by 70 (your grade) = 28% (overall)

0.6 (weighting) multplied by 70 (exam grade) = 42%

28+42=70%

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Original post by Mr M

She's reading Business

That almost makes it worse! I wonder how many percentage profit/loss calculations she'll have to perform before her employer goes out of business on the basis of duff calculation?

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OP

Original post by Good bloke

It is still primary school maths. :biggrin:

Lol...yea maths was always my worse subject :tongue:

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Fynch101

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Original post by Good bloke

That almost makes it worse! I wonder how many percentage profit/loss calculations she'll have to perform before her employer goes out of business on the basis of duff calculation?

Seconded

I mean seriously, good troll but kinda **** at the same time

Original post by Good bloke

That almost makes it worse! I wonder how many percentage profit/loss calculations she'll have to perform before her employer goes out of business on the basis of duff calculation?

Numeracy seems to be optional in some Business courses.

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