I know, curiosity and all that.

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Anything from a summa cum laude undergraduate degree to a Professor's Chair at Imperial College/MIT/CalTech from reading on here. In short, I haven't a clue.

I don't even know what university he'd have got it from.

Oh, I know that one without even checking. Maynooth. That was documented forensically here.

Thanks. Is it any good? (I tried a quick search, and it seems ok.)

Dunno, didn't check it out. Hadn't heard about it til Marc.

Might be a degree in bullshit.

Of one thing I do think is that you will hear no more of it.

He only took the exam a few weeks ago.

Whatever he got was enough to secure a job in his chosen (Science) field in the USA. no mean feat these days .

I suspect it's online and based in west Africa.

Only 4,000 miles out , so you suspect wrong .

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/

How could he have secured a job without knowing his results?

According to another FM Marc's auditioning for Dating Naked... I'm not sure how true that is...

Panda, your posts always make me chuckle.

My son secured a job pre results , based on letters of recommendation from his tutors and professors .

You seem to be rather obsessed with this

Not sure why anyone cares...wether they liked him or not.

I thought it was a Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry that he was going to get a degree in…if he passed his final exams that he already took…..at least that is what I read. It's funny that people find getting a degree to be such a big deal and seem to disbelieve him about getting a Bachelor's of Science in Chemistry. Probably due to that BB article that said he would be a doctor.

School really isn't that hard…especially objective classes where you memorize some rules and learn when to apply them. Good on Marc for doing this and I'm surprised at the surprise! Personally based on him in the BB house and outside the house (limited data), he seems more like a people person so I would have thought he would be good at sales (smoozing clients) but who am I to dictate what would be best for him. At least he got a degree in something employable rather than some liberal arts degree

How nice. Does anyone know where this job is or is it just 'somewhere in the USA'?

Now that Mark is so successful and everything, I'm sure he'll be upgraded to a Professor's sofa**....






** which has absolutely nothing to do with the size of his ar$e

Too early for results yet.....September I think

He'll get a 1st if Willis was marking it.

As the show seemed to present him as a soon-to-be 'doctor', that would mean he is doing a PhD. A PhD is a degree that is undertaken after an undergraduate degree or Masters degree. Most people who do PhDs also have a Masters degree.

You don't really sit exams or get results for a PhD. You submit a thesis which is a document that brings together all the work you have done during the course of the PhD. Then you have to sit a viva in which academics in the relevant field ask you about your thesis. The vast majority of people who submit a PhD thesis and take a viva pass, it's rare for someone to fail. Usually the worst case scenario is pass with major corrections, which means you are required to go away and change parts of the thesis. Once you have completed a PhD you can use the title of 'doctor'.

Just looked online and he seems to have a 1st class undergraduate degree in Chemistry, perhaps he isn't studying for a PhD after all.

If that is the case then he is only a couple of years ahead of Cristian in terms of academic qualifications. I think Cristian is doing BioMedical Sciences at UCL, which is one of the best universities in the UK.

Do you think that's how science subjects work at university, memorise some rules and learn when to apply them, with no real thought needed?

Yeah it's like the third best college in Ireland.

Bottom line, speaking from experience, then "yes" for many classes. Is it ideal? No. Is it possible? Yes for many of the hard science classes. Actually can be done for soft sciences that that is another topic.

Anyway, I'm not talking about how "science subjects work at university" and was talking about passing classes and getting degrees. It is possible to get excellent grades in many science classes* by memorizing rules and knowing when to apply them.

For organic and inorganic chemistry, physics 1 & II, and most basic classes then yes. Often if worked for me with classes that I did not have an innate understanding of and I got top grades. Chemistry made sense so it make the rules and application of said rules fairly easy. It's better to understand why the rules exist and why to apply them when you do. However one does not have to understand it to make top grades and get a degree. I do admit that calculus made no sense so I had to use pure memorization and pattern recognition of when to apply the rules. I got the highest grade in the class and have zero understanding of the subject. I'm not proud of my inability to understand Calculus but am proud that I was able to work around that problem. I even tried tutoring to "understand it" but couldn't get it so I did it my way to get the grade since I needed it for my goal.

*One class it did not work for me with was Physical Chemistry which required a pre-requistite class of Calculus II which I had not taken (I was a teaching assistant for the professors o. chem class so he waived the pre-req). I was going to take P.Chem as an elective since it sounded interesting. During the first lecture I asked someone about all these "Z" symbols on the board and apparently they were some Cal II math "thing". I couldn't figure it out without learning some Cal II so I dropped that elective. In hindsight, who the **** takes P. Chem as an elective.

College was so long ago