The British marking system

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and I'll

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in this video I'd like to explain the British marking system

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now if you are an undergraduate student you can get a wide range of marks

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and says these marks are usually given in percentages

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but percentages don't necessarily mean that marks will be out of hundreds

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so let's have a look at what different marks me if you get anything

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like seventy or above you have actually reached the first

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so a really good mark anything between 60 and 69 percent would

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be

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a 2-1 on up a second between 50 and 59 percent would be a low a second or two

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to

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between 40 and 49 percent

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well it's a third it's a pass you still pass to having failed

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well most things below forty percent are generally fails

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but you can see I put a little stars air because it doesn't always mean that you

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fail

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when you gain less than 40 percent right

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it really depends on your university system

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so in principle you would fail at less than 40 percent

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but here how we've got a 35 percent rule

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which generally means that if you gain a mark between

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35 to 39 percent you can always

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even that out with a better mark elsewhere on your module

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and it's really worth checking Academic Regulations just to make sure that you

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get it all right

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now the best mark in the world

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would you be sad if you can seventy percent well seventy percent is the

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first so is excellent

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anything above eighty percent is usually publishable

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so aiming for 100 percent is almost impossible

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and he I'm just giving you a little a screenshot

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of Commons we gay for ok project that gained eighty percent

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and is really said it's a very good project well-documented very good detail

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very impressive data

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it basically basically said further below that this is publishable

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so the best mark in the world probably not a hundred percent

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but anything about anything above seventy is absolutely excellent

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at postgraduate level let's have a look at max there

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now if you're on them a student if you are studying for you MA

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if you gain anything above seventy percent you will reach a distinction

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so that's what we call the first at an a-level at both

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sixty percent it is called a merit anything above 50 percent is a

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pass and spill 50 percent is a fail

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but again this AM issues as his undergraduate students arise here you

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may want to check your academic regulations just to make sure

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that this really is a fail if there are other ways around

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the whole the hallmark now for PhD students

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its even a bit simpler for PhD students well

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sometimes a 250 we award the PhD directly but

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much but mostly happens is that PhD students get some sort of Commons

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and these can be mined revisions all major revisions

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sometimes students are given the months to do the revisions sometimes to give me

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here

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sometimes they have to reset the five-hour they have even been cases

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where students failed a PhD but that is very rare

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and so again in this case check your academic regulations just to make sure

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that you get it right

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know this is it thank you very much for listening

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 1042