Small announcement

[guanin]

I got one of my essays back today. The grade: 62.

Before anyone freaks out on me, a 62 here does not equal a D. This is actually a good thing. The student handbook says that grades in the 60s "are good" and "represent solid performance" The passing mark is 50. 70s is "distinction". Above that you only get if you're super fantastic. And it was the first one, so I'm still getting practice in. The prof pointed out places where I need to improve, but overall good. So, Yay!

Can you tell I'm tired? laughs all over keyboard*

Comments

[ysrith.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! 62 is pretty good.

I dont know about your London Uni, but a 62 where I went was a decent 2.2 mark.

Anything over 70 is a 1st class honour, which are rare things indeed.

60 - 69 are 2nd class, which is very respectable.

Given the fact that you have moved to a completely different type of university culture, I am impressed that you got that on your first essay.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm still learning my way around this system, so I'm actually not sure what that 2.2 mark means. It looks like the GPA system we have back home, but it can't be because below 2.0 is fail. It's a little off for me to see it divided into 1st and 2nd classes since in the US second class is basically used in a despective way. I guess I'll get used used to it eventually.

Well, we do write essays for undergrad, though nowhere near as many as here, by what I hear from the people in my hall. It does depend on the professor and the uni. I think I've only doen two intensive research essays before and one of those was literature, but I have a solid base to build from. But two girls in my course, one studied in Bolivia, the other in Italy, were completely lost because their evaluations were basically oral (in the second's case it was only one oral exam at the end of term). I have no idea how they managed three essays at once.