Improving my grades in final year of undergrad!
I'm in my final year of uni, and although I hoped for better grades, my average was 61.6% last year, which to my understanding, weighs 30% towards my final grade. I hope to do significantly better this year as I want options for a post-graduate, but I'm wondering if it'd be at all possible to improve to maybe even a 1:1? If you guys have any tips on improving, please let me know too! Any help is greatly appreciated
I'm in my final year of uni, and although I hoped for better grades, my average was 61.6% last year, which to my understanding, weighs 30% towards my final grade. I hope to do significantly better this year as I want options for a post-graduate, but I'm wondering if it'd be at all possible to improve to maybe even a 1:1? If you guys have any tips on improving, please let me know too! Any help is greatly appreciated
If you're correct that the course is weighted 30:70, then you'd need to get a final year mark of 73.6% to get the 70% overall required for a first. (There's no such thing as a "1:1" -- only the second class is divided into 2:1 and 2:2).
Have you been making use of feedback from your assignments to see how you can improve?
You might find "Generic Marking Criteria" from Bristol to be useful in judging what level you need to be at for first-class marks; see "Table 1" in the document at https://web.archive.org/web/20240416163952/https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-quality/assessment/regulations-and-code-of-practice-for-taught-programmes/marking-criteria/ and also https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/academic-quality/documents/taught-code/annexes/university-marking-criteria-level6.pdf which goes into more detail.
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I'm in my final year of uni, and although I hoped for better grades, my average was 61.6% last year, which to my understanding, weighs 30% towards my final grade. I hope to do significantly better this year as I want options for a post-graduate, but I'm wondering if it'd be at all possible to improve to maybe even a 1:1? If you guys have any tips on improving, please let me know too! Any help is greatly appreciated
Hi @nicsuie ,
I am in my final year too so I thought I would share some things that I am doing this year to hopefully improve my grades as much as I can!
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When you get feedback on an assignment, make sure you go through it all thoroughly and ask your tutor any questions about parts of the feedback you don't understand or if you need anything clarifying make sure you ask them. They will try and help you with any questions and this way you know what you need to improve on for next time and how to do this.
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Make the most of any formative feedback opportunities that you get. This is the best opportunity to get feedback on your assignment before you hand it in and this is a good way to ensure you get the best grade you can as you will improve on any parts that weren't as good.
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I also like making sure I am following the marking rubric and brief very closely when I am doing my work and ensuing that I am following what is on here. If it helps, you could always print this off and highlight the parts that you have/haven't done as this will help you to see what need to be included.
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In lectures, I would say to have a look through the slides before you go to the lecture and highlight the parts that you don't understand so you know which bits you need to pay more attention to and ensure you don't understand. Also highlight the parts that you don't get during the lecture so you know what you need to ask the lecturers after.
I hope some of this helps!
Lucy - SHU student ambassador 🙂
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I'm in my final year of uni, and although I hoped for better grades, my average was 61.6% last year, which to my understanding, weighs 30% towards my final grade. I hope to do significantly better this year as I want options for a post-graduate, but I'm wondering if it'd be at all possible to improve to maybe even a 1:1? If you guys have any tips on improving, please let me know too! Any help is greatly appreciated
Hi!
Along with echoing the advice already given in this thread, I would like to emphasise the importance and usefulness of tutorials and drop in sessions. I find having one-on-one conversations with my lecturers is the most helpful thing in terms of both assignment content and my confidence going into assignments.
Hope this helps! Faye 🙂
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