Hey,
Got my results for semester one of my second year today - I'm really happy with firsts across the board.
While talking to a lecturer about my results today, he noted that it is very rare for English departments in UK universities to ever give 80% or higher. Personally I've never achieved over 80%, (nor do I know of anyone who has), so I guess this rings true.
However, I have friends on other courses who can (and regularly do) get anything up to 100% - my boyfriend complains if he gets anything less than 95% on his Computer Science course!
I'm quite intrigued by this...so I was just wondering...have any TSR-ers ever got over 80% for an English undergraduate assignment/exam/essay? If not, why are English papers marked so low?