3rd Class degree
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anyone here got a third for their degree?
if you got a third would it mean doing your degree was a waste of time?
incase anyones wondering i'm not going to get a third, im borderlind 2:1-2:2
my mate got a third and they let him do his teaching degree afterwards even though you need a 2:2 to do your PGCE
if you got a third would it mean doing your degree was a waste of time?
incase anyones wondering i'm not going to get a third, im borderlind 2:1-2:2
my mate got a third and they let him do his teaching degree afterwards even though you need a 2:2 to do your PGCE
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A degree now is about the equivalent of O levels when I was at school................I suppose a 'third' might equate to a GCSE.
Obviously I only mean people doing a degree in David Beckham or Coronation Street and not people doing hard sums.
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Good point...........I hadn't thought of that
If you've got a first with honours.. then absolutely fine.. also the place were you got your degree seems to count for a lot these days.. sadly. establishmentism still goes on..
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She kept the job she had lined up for after university (despite not getting the 2:1 they wanted her to get or the 2:2 she had got for her first two years) but they kept her waiting around a while before they told her they would keep her on (here endeth my knowledge of this story, as I don't speak to her anymore!)
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Once you have "proper" work experience that becomes much more important than your education. For my department at work we put the fact a person must have a degree for a "junior" level or an MBA/ qualified accountant type post graduate qualification for a senior level. In addition to that we also ask for 3-10 years of relevant experience (depending on level). I have never seen a single application form that has been turned down when they have applied without holding the requested education as long as they have the experience and even those with the qualifactions only ever get asked about work experience and asked to do a case study in the interview.
'Other factors likely to lead to employment in non-graduate jobs were low A-level grades, poor degree grades, degrees in non-vocational subjects and being female'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/28/ndeg28.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/28/ixhome.html
I think Geography would be a reasonably hard degree. Lots of maths and science involved.
The best degree to have, of course, is an Archbishop
Guess who failed to scrape their 2:1 at Warwick
(my advise is never turn up to a viva seriously hung-over!)
Of course, degree classification alone doesn't reaveal everything about a person: the institution/awarding body should also be taken into account.
I'd be disappointed with less than a 2.1.
It was from Cambridge though and it was a few years back. These days it wouldn't go down too well.
I googled "degree third class" and it came up with this thread. I post sometimes on digitalspy forums but this thread interested me (even if I am replying a few years late). I have to laugh at rogtog and his great belief that anyone wiith a 3rd class degree is doomed unless they came from a top Uni. A load of nonense! I myself graduated with a 3rd class degree in a so-called top Uni (which I hate today) many years ago and at that time thought myself doomed. In the world of work today no one cares of your 1st class honors but simply want to know if you get along with people and know the job.
I graduated the year after this thread was created, eeek. How time flies. I am getting old
I replied as well...........we're still here carmen !
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Since i replied to the thread originally people have gone to University and got third class degrees.
If they'd worked harder or were brighter, they coul be doing post-grad now.............:cool::p
However, a third, from any Uni (yes, even the apparently 'precocious' Oxbridge...) is pretty much useless. Unless under exceptional circumstances, i.e. you know the right people to get a job/further training, it isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Basically if you get a third class degree you've not worked hard enough. You've understood less than half the work covered. You're scraped a degree.
Yeah............they could be on the dole now.........
With a third class degree?! :rolleyes:
Look who hasn't been to Uni.
Degrees are either first class, second class or third class, with second class having "upper" and "lower" (2:1 and 2:2).
I'm aware of that.
I was replying to:
It seems a little silly to suggest that someone with a third would get a place on a PhD, or even a good postgrad course. Hence the :rolleyes: ...