70% graduates get 2:1s or firsts

Had no idea so many people got a 2'1.

According to Unistats only 5% of people get a First on my course and i'm supposed to be an 'easy' uni.

But no one can deny the fact that asian origin has highest degree status than english people in itself

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Ever if they were all standardised across the country, you will still need to make it comparable internationally. Having broader range makes it a lot easier to make comparison (ie is a 2:1 3.6 in GPA in the US? or is 64 exactly an 3.37 in the US?), the same goes to institution to institution and discipline to discipline comparisons. Since the scores are subjectively given and come from different modes of assessments,

The even bigger issue is that I didn't say we should get rid of scores altogether. The post I quoted argued that we should get rid of class honours together on the basis that class honours are taking away detailed information. The fact is they are not - they are merely additional information. The scores are still there if anyone wishes to compare them, which is better than the American GPA or nothing (in some universities they do have honours, but that's the minority) system.

it's a lot easier to assert that a 2:1 at University of X is similar to a 2:1 at University of Y; but not so much with a specific score '65'.

It's very naive to believe that. A 2.1 from Cambridge is broadly equivalent to a 2.1 at the ex poly where I teach now? I don't think so.

So external moderation doesn't work?

No it is not STEM degrees are worth much more than degrees in the arts and are much harder too and you can get high scores in essays my sister does Psychology and got 95% in one essay she is averaging about 79% I think for her course.You can obtain 100% for any module otherwise it would just be marked out of 70% the fact that it is harder for arts students to get high scores than maths students is to account for how much more valuable stem subjects are and how much more skilled you have to be to do well in them and that's why they ask for pretty much publishable standard for arts essays for top scores.

Bull**** Bull**** Bull****, STEM has right or wrong answers where as other degrees are about how you learn, think and put across an argument as well as the subject matter however this also often incorporates subjectivity and therefore hinders the ability to get 100% because you cannot be 100% right in a discipline where there is no 100% right answer... logic tells you that.

Also Psychology is now deemed as a science so will be in your STEM category.

This doesn't prove that it's necessarily easy to get a 2:1 or a first, you still need to do a lot of work to obtain it.

I think it just means that students nowadays are working harder due to the fiercely competitive job market (that's my opinion anyway)

Imperial, Oxford, UCL, Bath, Warwick - GUILTY

Only Bath and Warwick really. The other three have high intakes to justify a better outgoing performance.

Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at Buckingham University, said: “The rise is undermining the usefulness of the degree in being able to distinguish” between students of different abilities.

Only Bath and Warwick really. The other three have high intakes to justify a better outgoing performance.

The value of degrees seems to be diminishing...

It's not exactly hard to get a 1st - all you got to do is read and study about your topic instead of getting wasted and laid every night.