CoffeeAndPolitics: The Journey to Achieving a 1st Class Degree - Year 2 (2020/21)

Just a short update kinda...

I've been trying to wrap my head around my uni reweighting grades for my cohort and above, and I hope I can do my maths properly...

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to sound smug here, I'm just curious as to what grade I could graduate with by the end of year 3. Would definitely be happy with a 2.1, but graduating with a first would honestly be amazing.

With normal weightings (2:3 / 40%:60%), I'm pretty much guaranteed to graduate with a 2.1 if I get a year 3 average of 62 or higher. To get a first, I would need a year 3 average of 75 or higher which doesn't seem realistic based on the marks I got for this year (minus that odd module which dragged my year 2 average down a bit). Even then, it totals to 69.5% and I believe they do round that up to 70?!

Given the whole pandemic, my uni has implemented alternative weightings (1:3 / 25%:75%) for my cohort which I think could work in my favour, but it puts a lot of pressure to perform well in year 3. They said they'll automatically use whatever weighting gives the higher mark/grade. Anyways, I'm pretty much guaranteed to graduate with a 2.1 if I get a year 3 average of 60 or higher. To get a first, I would need a year 3 average of 73 or higher which tbh is still quite the stretch, but by no means impossible which is encouraging.

Overall, this really motivates me to keep pushing after surviving a really difficult academic year, but I think my possible downfall could be keeping a positive mindset especially when the world is not in a good place atm with the pandemic. TL;DR I need to achieve a year 3 average of at least 67 if I want to graduate with a mid to high 2.1, but that doesn't really matter - a 2.1 is still a 2.1 lol.

Btw, I hope you're all enjoying the summer! I'll make a new thread for documenting my third-year experiences around the time that GCSE and A-level results are out.

Not sure if I've said it before, but congrats on your results
I find it interesting to calculate what I might need, plus it's good to be informed! I think it would be more like 59/60+ for your first one though as you should need less than this year to average 60 overall given you got over 60 this year We have the same 2:3 weighting, but interesting York have allowed a change in weighting, sadly Durham have not (though tbf not sure I will be doing any better next year if I have to sit an actual exam after 3 years ) I think I need around 72 for a first overall, but given even with fully open book exams (a massive advantage for me) I haven't been getting that, I think that might be optimistic