Degree classification leeway

hello everyone

I have searched on the forums but i cannot find the answer to this.

Does anyone know if there is any leeway in terms of degree classification at the uni of manchester.

What i mean is, if someone gets an average of say 59%, is there any way they can get a 2.1 degree instead of a 2.2?

And is there a threshold where the uni bumps the degree from 2.2 to 2.1?

this is all assuming that a student has finished their 3 years at uni.
So i am strictly talking final marks.

Reply 1

rottcodd

3

It should be written in your undergraduate handbook or in your rules of assessment.

Reply 2

marcusfox

16

If you are borderline, they will give you a viva. If you do well, you will go up a grade. If not, you remain where you are. Me and two friends were within 0.1% of each other, me just above the line and them below. They both got vivas, but ended up with 3rds.

Marcus

Reply 3

kaka999

OP

whats a VIVA?

and does anyone know the threshhold?

59.9% or 59% or 58%?

Reply 4

rottcodd

3

You are better looking at your handbook or contacting your department, as I said. At my university, rules of assesment differ between departments, so nobody on here can actually tell you for definate how your course is assessed.

A viva is when you have an oral examination on your coursework.

Reply 5

River85

17

It will vary according to university. I'd advice reading up on your own university's literature. If you experience sufficient and longstanding mitigatisng circumstances then the uni will take this into consideration and you may have the classifcation bumped up should you fall on the borderline.

It's impossible to outline the rules for every uni, and every individual case.

Reply 6

marcusfox

16

kaka999

whats a VIVA?

and does anyone know the threshhold?

59.9% or 59% or 58%?

Its an oral exam. Like the viva voce you have when you defend your dissertation/thesis.

I don't know what the boundary is, it will differ from uni to uni. At Reading the results had been hugely moderated and the curve adjusted because they massively screwed up the second year's examinations.

(Because Easter in 2000 was really late, they decided to hold the exams right after term finished, instead of after Easter as was usual, robbing us of two weeks revision.)

Marcus

Reply 7

thatwhichiam

14

As far as I know, it's 59% and I'm assuming they work on normal mathematical rounding rules - 59.4% is therefore 59%, and 59.5% is 60%. Anyway, if you're that borderline they'll give you a viva, surely.

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