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Worst case scenario

I was wondering if someone could tell me what happens if you fail a pre-requisite (from yr 1) for one of your modules in yr2.

Basically I, should be able to get good marks in all of my modules except for EC102, which i could potentially fail. However EC102 is reqd for one of my modules next year. If i got Strong Firsts (80%+) in my other three modules, would i be able to go into yr2 or would i have to resit the whole year? ...Or would i be able to resit just EC102 next year?

Could someone please allay my fears (or confirm)? thanks.

Apologies if i didnt make any sense im very stressed. :s-smilie:

Reply 1

username9303

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I'm pretty sure you'd sit the failed module together with your second year modules next summer. My friend who was doing Accounting & Finance failed AC100, and he just had to resit it the next year. I wouldn't worry too much about EC102 though, it's pretty easy to blag 35%.

Reply 2

korektphool

20-20-20 is all you need!

Haha good luck for tomorrow.

Reply 3

alisama

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Come on the LSE isn't run be evil people. They won't make you resit the year if you do very well in 3 modules and just mess up one. You will just have to resit the fail. Though if you get 80+% in 3 modules and fail econ B... well... I don't even think that's possible. That must be impossible. Unless you are purposely trying to fail one module...

Reply 4

tourist

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alisama

Come on the LSE isn't run be evil people.

Hahahahahahaha.

Also gonna bomb out tomorrow OP, you're not alone.

Reply 5

SamLowry

OP

alisama

Though if you get 80+% in 3 modules and fail econ B... well... I don't even think that's possible. That must be impossible. Unless you are purposely trying to fail one module...

It is possible for me. I'm pretty good at my other subjects, i just cannot get my head around economics. If the questions are harsh i will be messed up, and not for a lack of a effort, just sheer inability.

I hope you guys are right. The reason i was worried was that under my courses for next year, (Microeconomic Principles), it says "Students are expected to have completed EC102 Economics B" so i was thinking that i'd need a pass just to even do the subject next year and thus resit the whole year.

Reply 6

korektphool

How'd you go?

Was fine I thought.

Reply 7

SamLowry

OP

Dreadful for me. I couldn't do the majority of the second section and the last 3 or 4 questions of the short answers. Hopefully, i got enough marks to scrape a pass, though i reckon it'll be touch and go.

Reply 8

mrikey

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Incredibly harsh paper; no search, no game theory, altering the investment. Very difficult for me.

20-20-20 is wrong. You need to get 40 in three of the modules to pass the year. If you fail 1.5 units or more then you redo the year. If you only fail EC102 then you just resit it next year with your other exams.

Reply 9

tourist

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mrikey

20-20-20 is wrong.

I think he mean't just get 20 marks out of each section of Econ B and there's your 2.1.

Thought the A Qs were harder than anticipated, managed a few of the Bs and wrote some crap for Cs. With some luck that might be a pass.

Reply 10

SamLowry

OP

mrikey

If you fail 1.5 units or more then you redo the year. If you only fail EC102 then you just resit it next year with your other exams.

I better make sure i din't fail my remain 1.5 units then! Just out of interest can i ask you how you know this, and if there is a link to this info on lse website?

Reply 11

username89060

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tourist

Thought the A Qs were harder than anticipated, managed a few of the Bs and wrote some crap for Cs. With some luck that might be a pass.

Yeah, there were quite a few very tricky ones thrown in. I've yet to speak to someone who confidently answered that short answer question on government taxation.

I don't think it was too bad, it was easy in some places and hard in other places. Alwyn could have set a much harder paper, that's for sure!

Reply 12

SamLowry

OP

Pedsdude

Yeah, there were quite a few very tricky ones thrown in. I've yet to speak to someone who confidently answered that short answer question on government taxation.

I don't think it was too bad, it was easy in some places and hard in other places. Alwyn could have set a much harder paper, that's for sure!

but he could have easily set up a much more manageable paper. If the investor questions were just replaced by a little of game theory or information, then i would be certain that i passed, but there was just too much on that. I'll be praying until mid july that i squeaked through!

Reply 13

xavisxavis

to be honest, who didn't expect an investor question? I thought Iain Long and Alwyn gave us lots of hints that an investor question would come up.

But honestly, I agree when people say it was a tough paper. I think question 5 and 6 of the short answer section (or was it 6 and 7?) were amazingly abstract.

Reply 14

username89060

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Yeah, it was pretty much guaranteed that an investor question would come up, although it was a shame that game theory or searching didn't come up either.

Some of the questions, however, I thought were giveaway questions. I reckon I've done enough to pass, but it's unlikely be a reasonably high mark (then again, if most people found it difficult...).

Reply 15

SamLowry

OP

Do the results get scaled up depending on how everyone else does or do you get what your absolute mark was?

Reply 16

username9303

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They'll probably say no to that question, but yes the marks are standardised. There is no way in hell that I dropped 33 marks in the ST330 exam, even if you adopted the most hardline "no marks for workings if you get the numerical answer wrong" approach. I'm pretty sure they have to anyway, to avoid either practically nobody getting firsts or practically everybody getting firsts.

Reply 17

JBacon

olliemccowan

They'll probably say no to that question, but yes the marks are standardised. There is no way in hell that I dropped 33 marks in the ST330 exam, even if you adopted the most hardline "no marks for workings if you get the numerical answer wrong" approach. I'm pretty sure they have to anyway, to avoid either practically nobody getting firsts or practically everybody getting firsts.

I'm pretty sure they don't apply any standardized marking. The papers are specifically designed to ensure they don't have to go through the process. There is certainly no rules that suggest only a certain number of students can gain firsts etc. The main reason being that students they decide to deploy malicious tactics like destroying books. What tends to happen is that each year the test is modified to ensure they achieve what they deem to be the desired result for the course. This is why results fluctuate so much from year to year, it also account for the disparity between quantitative and qualitative degree courses.

Seem you did indeed lose those 33 marks :P

Reply 18

mrikey

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SamLowry

I better make sure i din't fail my remain 1.5 units then! Just out of interest can i ask you how you know this, and if there is a link to this info on lse website?

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/schoolRegulations/regulationsForFirstDegreees.htm section marked "Passing from one year to another"

and also

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/schoolRegulations/BA-BScDegrees.htm

Reply 19

alisama

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blatant scaling of ec102 last year...

alwyn young likes to see you suffer. he lures you into thinking he's such a nice guy with his one shirt and jumper. you develop a sense of security. then he hits you hard on the exam day...

don't worry the economics modules in the second year, if u do those, are undoubtedly easier.

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