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What for you is a bad mark to receive in an essay?
I just got an essay back and got 63, which is OK and I know could be much worse. But it's still a little too close to a 2:2 for my liking - basically pretty much anything under 65 or 66 would be a "bad mark" for me. 
What does everyone else think?
What does everyone else think?
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Reply 1
Is this a joke or are you being serious?
Reply 4
I think a 'bad mark' in general is failing the assignment or exam.
Having said that I think on a personal level anything below 65% I would be devestated but that's because I'm quite competitive with myself. My average for last year was 81.5% with my highest score being 92% so I'd ideally like 70+% .. but I think it depends on what your own expectations you have of yourself, I know some people in my cohort are content with just passing the assignment at 50%
Having said that I think on a personal level anything below 65% I would be devestated but that's because I'm quite competitive with myself. My average for last year was 81.5% with my highest score being 92% so I'd ideally like 70+% .. but I think it depends on what your own expectations you have of yourself, I know some people in my cohort are content with just passing the assignment at 50%
Original post by pinda.college
Is this a joke or are you being serious?
Why would it be a 'joke'? Is it funny? Is there an inadvertent punchline?
Original post by Georgiina_Tee
What is this out of?
100. Aren't pretty much all uni essays the same?
Reply 6
Original post by ameritus
Why would it be a 'joke'? Is it funny? Is there an inadvertent punchline?
100. Aren't pretty much all uni essays the same?
100. Aren't pretty much all uni essays the same?
60+ is a 2.1 and a decent grade, I don't know how you couldn't be happy with 63-64%
Reply 8
anything below 70% id be disappointed (i usually get 75%)
but it depends on what its in though im great at biology but cant do math so id expect lower if i had to do something involving math/physic/chemistry etc...
on my course of biomed i expect much lower in biochem (if i make the 40% pass id be happy to be honest) but everything else on my course would have to be 75% (which im on track for so far)
but it depends on what its in though im great at biology but cant do math so id expect lower if i had to do something involving math/physic/chemistry etc...
on my course of biomed i expect much lower in biochem (if i make the 40% pass id be happy to be honest) but everything else on my course would have to be 75% (which im on track for so far)
Reply 9
If I actually spent a decent amount of time and effort on it then I guess less than 65% would be a bit disappointing, if it was a complete rush job then I'd be fine with over 50%
I've only done 2 uni essays though (first year Biology), got 68% and 75% so my view may very well change.
I've only done 2 uni essays though (first year Biology), got 68% and 75% so my view may very well change.
Man how are people getting marks of 80%+, let alone 90%+, does that relate to maths degrees or something?
Just that doing my zoology degree, 80% is something practically unknown and certainly 80%+ is basically impossible. As one lecturer put it "If you're asking me why you got 74% and if it's possible to get percentages like 80% or more. If I could literally take your assignment and publish it in a mainstream peer reviewed journal with no alterations, I'd give you 80%, so don't moan about your 74% percent, that's a very good mark, in all my time lecturing here I have only once given 80%, that was for a diss and that was just something else."
I've not known anyone on my course who's gotten over 78% (They dish that out as a standard percentage for high 1st, I've got it once.) for anything assignments or exams wise.
Anyway for me, anything 2:1 is fine, though 65%+ is a result where I'd not think any negative, 2:2 would be bad for me.
Just that doing my zoology degree, 80% is something practically unknown and certainly 80%+ is basically impossible. As one lecturer put it "If you're asking me why you got 74% and if it's possible to get percentages like 80% or more. If I could literally take your assignment and publish it in a mainstream peer reviewed journal with no alterations, I'd give you 80%, so don't moan about your 74% percent, that's a very good mark, in all my time lecturing here I have only once given 80%, that was for a diss and that was just something else."
I've not known anyone on my course who's gotten over 78% (They dish that out as a standard percentage for high 1st, I've got it once.) for anything assignments or exams wise.
Anyway for me, anything 2:1 is fine, though 65%+ is a result where I'd not think any negative, 2:2 would be bad for me.
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Reply 12
Anything below 68 and I am royally pissed off. I am not the brightest student around but I work really hard and expect to attain a certain mark.
Reply 13
I got 41 once in an English Language essay, I spat out tea and I wasn't even drinking tea.
Reply 14
I expect the mark of the devil can't be high up on the list.
Reply 15
Original post by SillyRodent
I got 41 once in an English Language essay, I spat out tea and I wasn't even drinking tea.
I could make good use of your spontaneous tea-producing abilities
Original post by ameritus
I just got an essay back and got 63, which is OK and I know could be much worse. But it's still a little too close to a 2:2 for my liking - basically pretty much anything under 65 or 66 would be a "bad mark" for me.
What does everyone else think?
What does everyone else think?
Sounds like a bad mark to me its not a 1st.The grade inflation for a 1st is so large that now around 9% of the cohort, leaving secondary school end up with 1st class degrees.
Reply 18
Original post by Dalek1099
Sounds like a bad mark to me its not a 1st.The grade inflation for a 1st is so large that now around 9% of the cohort, leaving secondary school end up with 1st class degrees.
You aren't even at uni! Ignorance is bliss.
Reply 19
Original post by Tuerin
I could make good use of your spontaneous tea-producing abilities
If you coughed biscuits then this would be a match made in heaven.
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