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You can still get a job with a 3rd class degree, right?

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minimo

so effectively, they never use the 'full mark range' ie up to a 100? Its good though, in a way, helps to bring people back dwn to Earth, especially if you are used to getting high marks continually at school, when maybe one did not always work as hard as they could have.

It varies between subjects. Some of the past engineers at Sidney have got grades in the high 90%s, but last year's history examiners were told to use the full marking scale "up to 80%". Or possibly 85% - either way, not actually the full range.

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Willa

Camford

Yes it so does!! :frown:

are you sure cos i've talked to so many people and they say they dont count towards your final degree.....seriously...lets get alaric on here to check that!

Reply 22

Alaric

minimo

Hehe, you'll be happy with 50% in Cambridge :smile:

Ticki is right, if you have a third or even a 2.2 the prospects are distinctly worse for the graduate jobs at big(ish) firms (nearly all say they require a 2.i these days). But that doesn't mean that you won't get a job at all, it just makes it a lot harder. It's just the easiest and most sensible way onto the career ladder is through a grad job, because of the training opportunities you get, so makesure you all get that 2.i/1.

Geeeee...eeeet revising!

A.

Reply 23

Alaric

Willa

are you sure cos i've talked to so many people and they say they dont count towards your final degree.....seriously...lets get alaric on here to check that!

You rang?

Well it both counts and it doesn't. To get an internship next year you'll probably need a 2.i and getting an internship makes getting a grad job a lot easier. Lots of employers now ask for your marks throughout your university education, not just what you'd normally quote on your cv of the final year mark. So to summarise, it doesn't count towards any other mark other than your part IA---IB and II are entirely independent. But it does matter.

Next?

A.

Reply 24

minimo

Any TSR-ers around here with Firsts? :smile:

Reply 25

~Raphael~

minimo

Any TSR-ers around here with Firsts? :smile:

hehehe BazTheMoney got a first I believe :biggrin:

Reply 26

minimo

cool

(erm, sorry about e-mailing you something random, accidentally sent all my contacts a copy of an english presentation i was supposed to be sending to myself :redface:

I'm dumb)

Reply 27

d750

minimo

Any TSR-ers around here with Firsts? :smile:

Yo.

Most of the grads will have them.

Reply 28

~Raphael~

minimo

cool

(erm, sorry about e-mailing you something random, accidentally sent all my contacts a copy of an english presentation i was supposed to be sending to myself :redface:

I'm dumb)

Unfortunately Baz was a bogus :eek:

As to the email, that's ok, it briefly made me feel loved :smile:

Reply 29

Hoofbeat

~Raphael~

Unfortunately Baz was a bogus :eek:

And I also notice how a certain 'Oriel Chemist' disappeared right after the revealing (and they had the same IP :rolleyes:

)

Reply 30

Willa

Hoofbeat

And I also notice how a certain 'Oriel Chemist' disappeared right after the revealing (and they had the same IP :rolleyes:

)

i just cant wait for his next incarnation. what subject you reckon he'll be doing?

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Elles

"Baz" had not merely a First.. but a double first.. :rolleyes:

hmm, my money's on an art/language perhaps?

anyway, medics are special.. Distinctions & Merits for us..

Reply 32

Camford

Elles

"Baz" had not merely a First.. but a double first.. :rolleyes:

hmm, my money's on an art/language perhaps?

anyway, medics are special.. Distinctions & Merits for us..

That's boring. You guys need more variety.

Reply 33

RetiredAccount89

Elles

"Baz" had not merely a First.. but a double first.. :rolleyes:

hmm, my money's on an art/language perhaps?

anyway, medics are special.. Distinctions & Merits for us..

At cambridge pre-clinical?
I know the guy that got top mark each year, and he certainly had starred first, not merit. whereas kcl DOES do merits instead.

I personally finished with a 2.1.
Solid

Reply 34

Elles

no, at Oxford First BM (& 2nd BM too i imagine, although the FHS is more traditionally done I think). I assumed it was obviously Oxford specific from the follow on regarding Baz & use of "us" - though given which sub forum we're in I understand your confusion!

oh, & the top mark is our system would be a Distinction overall, with Merits for the constituent individual papers.

Camford - well, we also have the 'pass' or 'fail' option - best avoided, I find.. :p:

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Ticki

Alaric

Ticki is right.

Awww, I feel loved and (more importantly) clever.

Reply 36

jd27

Of course you can get a job. Friend of my mum's is the head of litigation at a top london solicitors firm. he got a 3rd from cambridge in law...

Reply 37

Wagamuffin

A person I know at school has a parent who obtained a third from Ox and has a mid 6-figure salary.

Reply 38

Ticki

That's very unlikely to happen to people of our generation. Notice that no-one's named a particularly successful person who graduated recently with a third. All the banks, accountancies, law firms, civil service etc. etc. will ask for applicants with no less than a 2.i. It's much harder for people with 2.iis and especially 3s.

Reply 39

French Pikachu

OK so, my dad went to Bristol, got a high 2.i, went to work in Africa and when he came back got a scholarship that payed for all his MBA at LBS... But that was 30 years ago, so do graduates still get scholarship easly with a 2.i or now would they need a 1st?

You can still get a job with a 3rd class degree, right?

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