Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Jan 8th 2010, 9:54 pm
#31
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Applied for a postgrad certificate course at the U of Ottawa in the evenings. I've got a masters and a BA from two good UK unis. They were not convinced that my degree or masters had high enough grades - in both I had an average of 70+.
Got on the course in the end, but had to miss a year while they worked it all out.
Jan 8th 2010, 9:55 pm
#32
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Marking, you either design your exams so a machine can do it or you assign some grad student to it. And for upper level courses, you just read the first paragraph and the last and figure the rest of it is pretty much the same.
Jan 8th 2010, 9:58 pm
#33
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
This has not been my experience actually.
Applied for a postgrad certificate course at the U of Ottawa in the evenings. I've got a masters and a BA from two good UK unis. They were not convinced that my degree or masters had high enough grades - in both I had an average of 70+.
Got on the course in the end, but had to miss a year while they worked it all out.
Applied for a postgrad certificate course at the U of Ottawa in the evenings. I've got a masters and a BA from two good UK unis. They were not convinced that my degree or masters had high enough grades - in both I had an average of 70+.
Got on the course in the end, but had to miss a year while they worked it all out.
Jan 8th 2010, 10:03 pm
#34
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Setting it is one thing, thats a way of keeping the little buggers in line.
Marking, you either design your exams so a machine can do it or you assign some grad student to it. And for upper level courses, you just read the first paragraph and the last and figure the rest of it is pretty much the same.
Marking, you either design your exams so a machine can do it or you assign some grad student to it. And for upper level courses, you just read the first paragraph and the last and figure the rest of it is pretty much the same.
Jan 8th 2010, 10:45 pm
#35
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
In England the Law Society moderates all the results each year. The theory was that a 2:1 from Oxbridge, was the same as a 2:1 from everywhere else. How true that is is anyone's guess but a Law Society moderator that I spoke to assured me that it was.
Jan 8th 2010, 10:49 pm
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
<disclaimer: this information might well be horrendously out of date>.
Jan 8th 2010, 10:54 pm
#37
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Really, what does one get at Oxford then?
Jan 8th 2010, 11:20 pm
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
Oink, don't tell me they now award PhD's??
Jan 9th 2010, 12:20 am
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Jan 9th 2010, 1:27 pm
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Re: Academic Transcript Scores. I am not an idiot.
My daughter at the University of Bath tells me there are plenty of foreigners who can barely speak English and are also walking away with degrees....
Jan 9th 2010, 10:14 pm
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